Happy Halloween!

Yesterday we brought a pumpkin in to carve.  I will admit, it is hard to get in the Halloween spirit up here on our high hill because honestly, no one would want to venture walking up our driveway to get a piece of candy.  Honestly, I don't think we could get trick-or-treaters up here if we were handing out money, that's how difficult the driveway is.  But our oldest is getting more into the spirit seeing everyone's decorations and I decided it would be a good time to give a whirl at carving a pumpkin.  I had him draw an outline of his jack-o-lantern face first so I knew if I could handle this task.  An artist I am not...I am actually probably as far away from an artist as one can get. 

Now onto the next task, cleaning out the pumpkin.  Now I am not one to touch anything gooey, and I passed this gene onto my oldest obviously, because when I told him to scrape out the pumpkin he responded, "I am not putting my hand in there!"  So he tried his hardest to use a spoon the whole time.  As you can see from the captions below, I was able to convince him one more time so mommy could take a picture, and he told me all about it (see below). 

On our home page, you can see the final result.  I honestly couldn't figure out how to do the mouth correctly, but one of the best things about being excited about the pumpkin carving process, and being so young and loving mommy is that he really couldn't care it wasn't perfect.  He was just excited to get the candle in the pumpkin. 

"I will pick it out with my hand one more time, Mommy!"

I may be smiling, but this is gross!