PUMPKINS

Each year, Eric and the girls spend a half-day carving pumpkins and roasting pumpkin seeds. It is my job to clean up the mess at the end!

First they have to get the icky stuff out of the pumpkin.

Then scoop up the seeds to roast in the oven.

After the pumpkin is cleaned out, the pattern is applied. (You didn't think my engineer husband would cut into the pumpkin without a design, did you??)

Then the carving began . . .

Apparently the carving wasn't as fun as the rest of the job, so the girls decided to lay under the table and read the newspaper upside down. It must have been a funny news day :)

Voila! The finished products -- a orange cat pumpkin for Ella and a white ghost pumpkin for Avery.

P.S. We all agreed that the seeds from the white pumpkin tasted much better than the seeds from the orange pumpkin -- FYI!