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Monday, November 9, 2009

Pumpkin Carving!

{10/28/09}

These are the pumpkins that the boys and I picked out at the Bates Nut Farm.  We kept putting off the carving and finally decided it couldn't wait anymore.  So we brought out our carving kits and went to town.  Buddha drew the face he wanted to carve directly onto his pumpkin, then The Chief and I helped the boys hold the carving knives and saw away at their jack o' lanterns.  Neither child wanted to so much as touch the guts.  Come to think of it, maybe that's because we call them guts.  :D  Fun times!

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Turned out pretty good, didn't they? We never use stencils.  And mine are always pretty elementary.  But I'm quite impressed with The Chief's. Can you figure out which is his?

1 comment:

Marcia said...

Awesome pumpkins. I never went to that much work. Of course you were always a kid at heart and are lucky to have Dan who is willing to have fun, too.

Anders is really changing, not a baby at all.