The Little Pumpkin That Missed Halloween

A cold rainy day....and for once..NO FOOTBALL PRACTICE!!!!

What to do....What to do....."Mom! Can we carve pumpkins tonight?".....That's the question laid out on the table by Caleb.......Well what's a mom to do....

Off to the kitchen we went in search of the pumpkin carving tools......no where in site. Darn it! I must have packed them away in the halloween totes. I was NOT wanting to drag out the halloween decor this year.......but in the end I'm glad I did.

The kids had a blast with all the old masks and wigs! As you can see..Carter transformed into a blonde hair'd little girl. That child loves trying on wigs! And it's always so funny!

So finally...we found the carving tools at the bottom of the tote...of course..........

Got the pumpkins cut for scooping...*HERE ARE MY PUMPKIN CARVING TIPS DON'T CUT THE TOP OF YOUR PUMPKIN TO SCOOP IT. CUT YOUR HOLE IN THE BOTTOM AND SCOOP IT OUT THAT WAY. THEN ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LIGHT A TEA LIGHT AND SET THE PUMPKIN OVER THE CANDLE. NO MORE BURNING YOUR FINGERS TRYING TO GET THE CANDLE IN AND ALSO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE TOP OF THE PUMPKIN GETTING SOFT AND CAVING IN. IF YOUR PUMPKIN IS STARTING TO LOOK WILTED DURING THE DAY SET IT IN A BUCKET OF WATER. IT WILL REVIVE IT EVERY TIME!-THERE'S YOUR HANDY TIPS OF THE YEAR LOL*

There is something about a pumpkin when you first cut it open..it just smells soooo good!! As soon as I cut Caleb's pumpkin open I had to stick my head close to it and take a good wiff of that fresh pumpkin smell..little did I know someone else was taking that all in. (See photo of Carter above with head almost in the pumpkin lol)

Caleb jumped right in ripping the pumpkin guts out but Carter, it took him a little bit. He didn't like the feel of it. The whole time Caleb is telling him to just dig in lol...(photos above)

Caleb used a carving pattern for his pumpkin, Carter created his own silly face and Dan used a pattern. This was Dan's first time using a carving pattern. He was so proud of the final results. (photos above) Caleb's is a skeleton like face, Dan's is a devil thing.

Of course after all the pumpkins were carved I had to take pictures. And that's when it happened. The little pumpkin that missed halloween!!!

Carter was SOOOO tired he dropped his pumpkin on the floor on accident! (you can see how sleepy he is in the photo) It cracked right in two hanging on by a little flesh!

I felt so bad for him! He was truely bummed!! I'm going to try to tack it together by inserting tooth picks into but we'll see. We told him we'd get him a new pumpkin today. Poor little guy!

So we get past the hump of the broken pumpkin and I tell Caleb to set the bowl of pumpkin guts out in the breezeway and I'd throw them over the fence row tomorrow. "MOM!! Aren't you going to make roasted pumpkin seeds???"...........OYE-I WASN'T PLANNING ON IT!.

So there I sit, picking pumpkin seeds out of the big bowl of pumpkin guts watching the debate.

I threw them in a container of salt water and let them set over night........so today...on my agenda is "make pumpkin seeds"........what a mummy won't do for her little goblins I tell ya.........

So there is our adventures in pumpkin carving. Hope you enjoyed sharing a family moment with us. Thanks for reading!!

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!