Pumpkin Carving.

Today is nuts. I should be doing about 8,000 other things as Colin and I get ready to spend the day tomorrow flying across the Pacific. But you know what? I've been organizing photos the last couple of days into groups of events (first lost tooth, trip to Doernbecher, Easter 2011, etc.) and I realize that I really have been terrible about documenting things. Somewhere around Abe's birth and cancer, I kind of fell off the documenting wagon and it makes me sad. I don't even have any notes down about Juliet's last birthday. What?? So today, when I should be packing, I am taking a few moments to document last night's pumpkin carving. My kids had a blast. These pumpkins are out of our own garden, which the hippie in me loves. The kids picked out stencils and Colin and I helped (actually, we did it all) the carving.

Here is Boss telling me something - this kid has lots of words to use. All the time.

Jude loved handling the guts of the pumpkin. My job during this gutting process was picking out pumpkin seeds, which I roasted. Have you tried that? They are off the hook good for a snack.

Jude had the scary pumpkin, Sissy had the witch and Samuel did Frankenstein.

Sissy had fun gutting her pumpkin - although she said it felt pretty gross. Isn't her hair cute? Colin cut it. She wants no hair up front because it gets in her eyes. I told her that's called a mullet and I won't be having it. At least not for my girl.

Yay! The kids packed up their pumpkins to leave for the grandparents house. I can't believe we won't be with them for Halloween - actually, they were going to attend the church harvest festival (which is way more fun than trick or treating), but we'll do that next year.