After a long week away at a conference I returned home just in time for our annual pumpkin carving party at Grandma’s house. Katie had a particularly long week and was probably a little overwhelmed to have her “4th child” back home. Ben and Kallie both had their Halloween parties at school on Friday and we also got to see Ben in the school’s Halloween parade. This year marked a first in that we didn’t have a different costume for each child for each different Halloween event. Everybody just had one costume and we stuck with it.
This year Ben was a dead pirate, Kallie was a beautiful witch, and Andrew was a fireman. Ben didn’t think his makeup was scary enough until we got to Grandma’s and one of my cousin’s kids started screaming. He had to wash it off and pretty much apologize to his mom for having demanded scarier makeup. As per tradition the kids picked out their own pumpkins:
The hard part done we just had to carve three pumpkins. This year went a lot smoother with all three kids actually helping and caring about it and mom scooping out all the guts. Andrew in particular was not about to let this experience pass without personally removing as many pumpkin innards as possible.
Grandma and Aunt SaraAnn made fresh donuts for the carving crew.
Papa worked hard too.
Our last fun pumpkin carving at Grandma’s house for the foreseeable (yes, that’s really how you spell it apparently) future.
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