This is actually the first time we carved pumpkins as a family. I really don't love the mess and the nastiness in the pumpkins. But this year we got some free pumpkins from a friend so I figured it was the best time to introduce the fun to Payton.
We bought the carving tools and a little book with different faces that you could draw onto the pumpkin and then carve it.
Josh helped Payton clean out his pumpkin and get is paper of the face he wanted all set up on his pumpkin. Payton just sat there and colored for quite sometime while Josh worked on his own pumpkin.
I took on the challenge of doing Scarletts pumpkin and my own. Once it was clean I let Scarlett see what it was all about. She really wasn't very impressed.
I am sure she thought this is nasty and slimy!
Josh and Payton working very hard on their pumpkins
Payton doing such a good job coloring in the dots for his face
I have never used the fun little tools that you can buy at the store and I was SO impressed at how much easier it was to carve a pumpkin and even clean it out. I remember as a kid I would do some of the cleaning out and then complain that I couldn't do anymore so my dad would finish cleaning it for me. Also the whole papers that have different faces on them make that so nice. As a kid we were very limited to what we could carve because it would just be the basic shapes. I actually enjoyed carving pumpkins this year! CRAZY!
Once we finished Payton was very excited to see that we could put a candle in the pumpkin and then the faces would glow in the dark.
All set up outside!
Patyon with the pumpkins. The order from the left is Paytons, Scarletts, Joshs and Mals.
We tried to get a picture with the kids holding their pumpkins but as you can see that didn't work very well. Scarlett just wanted to crawl away.
Payt enjoying his pumpkin
Payton and Mal with the pumpkins
You can see the pumpkins a little better here since it was day time when we took this picture.
The weekend of Halloween we got to go to a Halloween party at our friends house. We all had to dress up in costume. It took Josh and I forever to figure out what we were going to be. We had the kids costumes about a month in advance so they were done! Payton and Scarlett were both Sharks. Josh was a football player and Mal was a homecoming queen.
Mal and Scarlett enjoying the party! She's such a cute little shark.
At the party the kids got to hit a pineota so this is a picture of Josh and Scarlett waiting for one of the kids to smash it open.
All the kids ready for someone to break this pineota open so they could get some candy.
Payton did wear is costume to the party but after an hour of playing in the house and running around he was so sweaty that he had to take the costume off.
Austin was a monster from the movie Monsters Inc. He was so cute because you could barely see him in that costume!
We let all the kids have two different tries at attempting to break open the pineota, but when you have a party and the oldest kid is 5 and the rest are 4, 3, 2 and 8 months they are not capable of hitting the pineota hard enough to even make a dent. By that point we decided to let all the adults get one swing. We made it through all 6 of us and it just need 1 more good hit to completely break it open.
We let Krista have the honor of that last hit.
The kids all getting their candy. I have never seen kids so SLOW about picking up the candy! They were funny!
An attempt at a kid group shot once the candy was all picked up.
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