Pumpkin carving!

Every year, some friends of ours throw a pumpkin carving party right before Halloween and it's always so much fun! We all bring our pumpkins and carve them together and enjoy some yummy food while the kids run around and play.

No one enjoyed the pumpkin carving more than Ellie. I didn't think she'd really care much, but she totally got into it! She told me she wanted her pumpkin to have a happy face with two teeth... so that's what we did. She was even a great little helper when it came to scooping the insides out.

(Just snapshots from the phone this time...)













Then it was the big kids' turn! They were super fast because they wanted to get back to playing, so I didn't get a ton of pictures. They did a good job designing and cutting their pumpkins. (If you can't tell, Asher's is a vampire.)











After the party, we took them home and lined them up on our doorstep. Ellie yells, "MY PUNKIN!!!" and jumps up and down whenever we walk out the front door. Every. single. time. She even yelled out the door to the FedEx guy, "Wook a my punkin!!" She's going to be so sad when she finds out it has to go in the garbage now that Halloween is over.