Pumpkin Carving...

It's that time of year again...time to carve Halloween pumpkins! This year Jaedyn chose a "Ninja Turtle" pattern, Jantzen chose a "Creeper", and Jaron chose a "Castle Crasher" design... 

  Josh helped Jaedyn trace her pattern on her pumpkin, I helped Jantzen, and Jaron decided he was old enough to do his own this year...         That's fine with Josh and I because that's one less pumpkin we have to do.   Next up was the kids' favorite part...gutting the pumpkin!  I'm being sarcastic here...the kids HATE this part!  They think it's disgusting!  Josh helped Jaedyn out a little bit, but then we made her and the boys do it on their own.                  I loved the facial expressions of disgust my kids gave me as they were doing this...it was funny!  You'd think I was making them gut a real animal.
After the kids took all the innards out of the pumpkins, we got them all carved up so we could take them to our ward trunk or treat.   I think they all turned out awesome!                 The kids were all happy with how their pumpkins turned out, now we're headed off to do some "trunk or treating"!!