Pumpkin Carving!

Saturday was our annual Pumpkin Carving Party with the G side of the family. This year went VERY SMOOTHLY (if I do say so myself!). I think after (what?) five or six years of doing this, I think we have finally gotten it down to a science. First of all, we started out with having everyone bring their pumpkins already hollowed out.

These are the pumpkins ready to be carved (some even had their diagrams already planned out and poked). That would be Mark and Lisa, they are the prepared ones.Bryce (or at least I think it was him) had this BRILLIANT idea to put flour in the poked holes so that you could see them better when you were ready to carve.Melissa is concentrating VERY hard to get it just right (and she had a hard one).Steve and Jenna are poking their diagram onto their pumpkin. (See, we all get patterns off of the internet and then print them out and transfer the diagram onto the pumpkin - we aren't that imaginative.)Except for a little guidance from me, Spencer did ALL of the work himself. He gutted it, poked it, and carved it up!This is Lisa with her son Kaden.

Levier and his daughter Amanda.

Bryce and Marlene

Mark with his daughter Mikayla.

So, what were the others doing during all of this?

Jayden was trying to be good.Parker (Bryce and Marlene's) was enjoying just watching.Megan (Bryce and Marlene's) did a good job watching and asking us all what we were doing.
The final result! They look great don't they?