carving

For family night the girls wanted to carve pumpkins. We have been blessed by the pumpkin fairy as we have SO many pumpkins this year. I thought we would carve one for both the girls and save the rest for my porch for Thanksgiving, and why would we carve all 9 pumpkins? Then Dad came home and after dinner and discussing what we should carve. My vote was polka-dots, Hayli wanted a bat Gentry just kept saying "Me too! and Mine too!" She was very worried about being left out of what ever we were talking about. :) So we began cutting and cleaning the first pumpkin. Kate's was first I had successfully convinced her polka-dots were the way to go, I began to draw the dots and then Casey made Hayli go count the pumpkins and soon we had this.

Casey was a trooper carving 7 pumpkins in all... at one point he and I were cleaning out pumpkins and 3 little girls were running around like a crazy house. Casey said "I thought this was supposed to be a family night activity" ..... He did get Hayli to help clean out the last one. But I have to admit when you decide to carve 7 of the pumpkins, girls with short attention spans lose interest quick. So in the end Casey and I had a great family night without the family! Hayli did take this picture which I guess shows who really did the work!

Now you all have to stop by on Halloween night to see them in LIGHTS!