Halloween Eve Pumpkin Carving

Mags decided at the last minute to have some friends over on the eve of Halloween to eat pizza and watch scary movies. We decided to add pumpkin carving. Do you know how many kids have never carved a pumpkin?

It's quite entertaining to watch them clean the pumpkins out. Ewwww....gross...ick...it's slimy!

Below, Max starts. Wait! He's smiling...he's not grossed out. What's up with that?



Hey, Ryan seems to enjoy it, too. Maybe it's just the girls that think pumpkin guts are gross?



Hmmm...yeah. That's got to be it.



Well...Nick doesn't seem too crazy about it, either.



Priya was game. Maybe it's that Carroll Medical Academy dissection thing...



Ryan got really fancy cutting out the top of the pumpkin. It was a booger to line back up, though, I have to tell you.



Max is still cleaning out his pumpkin.



Uh, oh...I smell a pumpkin gut war coming on. Watch out, everybody!



Whew! Crisis averted.



Or...is it???



No, Mags! I do not want pumpkin guts slung on me. Ewww...guh-ross!!!



Poor Jake...never knew what hit him.



Next year, there will be no pumpkin carving unless the carvers clean up their own mess. Lesson learned.

Want to know what we did with the pumpkins since the kids didn't take them home? The Great Pumpkin put them out in our neighbor's yard to surprise their three little kids. Marc said that the kids were so surprised and happy to see them that they ran from pumpkin to pumpkin for 20 minutes trying to figure out who put them there.

Don't you just love little kids?