About six years ago I decided to start "Pumpkin Night". The idea is that each year we have something made with pumpkin for dinner (& dessert if time permits) and we carve our Halloween pumpkins. This year for dinner we had Pumpkin, barley, sage soup along with some everyday things....homemade chicken fingers, and veggies. The soup was a hit! After cleaning up dinner it was time to carve the ginormous pumpkins!
Zander asked me to "carve a mommy pumpkin with lips and eyelashes." Then he ate the parts of pumpkin that I had just carved out.
Luckily Chase, Trey and Layton are old enough that they can do all of the carve themselves so I don't have to halep much. (Carving pumpkins is not my favorite thing to do)
I carved a quick face on McKay's pumpkin and then we let him have a butter knife and go to town on his pumpkin. He had a blast sticking the knife in and pulling it out. Unfortunately there wasn't much left of his pumpkin, but he was happy so that was all that mattered!
Once everyone was done carving their pumpkins we had to light them so we could see what they looked like. Everyone did such a good job with their pumpkins and more importantly everyone had fun!
We finished off the evening by decorating cupcakes. It was another great 'pumpkin night'.
Zander asked me to "carve a mommy pumpkin with lips and eyelashes." Then he ate the parts of pumpkin that I had just carved out.
Luckily Chase, Trey and Layton are old enough that they can do all of the carve themselves so I don't have to halep much. (Carving pumpkins is not my favorite thing to do)
I carved a quick face on McKay's pumpkin and then we let him have a butter knife and go to town on his pumpkin. He had a blast sticking the knife in and pulling it out. Unfortunately there wasn't much left of his pumpkin, but he was happy so that was all that mattered!
Once everyone was done carving their pumpkins we had to light them so we could see what they looked like. Everyone did such a good job with their pumpkins and more importantly everyone had fun!
We finished off the evening by decorating cupcakes. It was another great 'pumpkin night'.
3 comments:
That is a great fun tradition. Maybe it is how we grew up or something because I am not a fan of pumpkin carving either.
Those pumpkins are huge! In fact, they are bigger in real life. I saw them! Did I mention they were HUGE?
What fun memories you are creating! This is what holds families together.
what fun pictures you are such fun parents and making lasting memories
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