Thursday, October 28, 2010

Jack-o-lanterns

These are the pumpkins we carved last weekend. We didn't go to a pumpkin patch and pick these out...we went the easy road and stopped by Fresh Market and grabbed their 3 for $10 deal....we're cheap, what can I say? We thought that the kids would enjoy getting to carve pumpkins, but as soon as the hubs pulled the top off the first pumpkin, and we heard a unanimous "EWWW", we knew that we would be doing this ALONE. Which was fine b/c we got to carve some really cool pumpkins, if I do say so myself:o)

We were trying to carve pumpkins of the characters that the kids would be dressing as for Halloween, but we couldn't find a template for Jessie, so these were the templates we chose. I carved the Buzz pumpkin... with a dull knife. 
He turned out pretty good for not having good tools. Hubs, the engineer, headed to the garage, grabbed his safety glasses and his Drimmel tool, and began to work. He finished the other two pumpkins before I got mine done. Ya'll, that's the way to go when carving pumpkins:o)
Didn't he do a FAB job? I think so:o)
Yesterday we spent the day at home b/c E had a tummy bug. He seems to be fine now, and hasn't had any "episodes" since before lunch. Hoping it was one of those mysterious 12 hour bugs...We did our best to keep S.R. away from him...we really don't want any sickness on Halloween. The kids are really pumped about it this year:o) 
I hope that you all have a safe and Happy Halloween!!
See you back here on Monday!

4 comments:

Unknown said... Best Blogger Tips

That picture of J just makes me laugh!! Ah, we miss you guys!

Deanna said... Best Blogger Tips

Great looking pumpkins! I just had to throw ours away. We had them outside and all the rain molded them. Kids were bummed they didn't last til Sun night.

djjdjdjdjd said... Best Blogger Tips

I don't think ours will last until Sunday either. Mickey's face is starting to collapse.

Amanda said... Best Blogger Tips

My darling has the same reaction to pumpkin guts, which left me in charge. Even worse- we carved this past Sunday and it is completely moldy on the inside. Aww man!