Carving Pumpkins

The kids finally got to carve their pumpkins! We've been waiting until closer to Halloween because the squirrels like to eat our pumpkins. It was too cold outside (it snowed in October!) so we ended up in the garage. Notice the KY sweatshirt...Maggie and Emily are both referred to as KY at school because they love wearing their KY paraphenalia. Davis' little pumpkin was devoured by the squirrels so he adopted this big one, which you would think he would be thrilled about but he is still devestated about the squirrels...I think he's scarred for life! I don't remember having this squirrel problem in KY, is it an IL thing? We were told to put oil on our pumpkins and that seems to help a little bit but Davis has taken it upon himself to stand watch and scare any squirrels away. We just have to keep the pumpkins in the garage at night.

Conner got to carve his own pumpkin this year which was very exciting for him. We always have the kids draw what they want their pumpkins to look like and then Cory does all of the cutting. Conner convinced us he was ready to do everything this year.

Maggie and her pumpkin have matching smiles!

Kate drew a princess pumpkin of course, complete with hair, eyelashes, lips and earrings. That was fun for Cory to attempt carving this one! When he was done, Kate said it's her puppy pumpkin because the hair ended up looking like ears.