Carving Pumpkins

Tuesday night Nate got home earlier than normal; so we set to work carving pumpkins while soup simmered in the crockpot. Makayla and Allison were so excited. They could hardly wait to begin. They were going to do it all by themselves-with maybe just a teeny bit of help from Dad and Mom. The girls anxiously waited while Daddy cut the lids. Then they looked inside...

"GROSS!!!"
"YUCK!!!"
"DISGUSTING!!!"
"I DON'T want to touch THAT!!!"

EEEEWWWWW! Even though she was disgusted, Kayla did really good at helping me clean out the pumpkin.

Look at that face. Allie was extremely disgusted. She would use the spoon, but she refused to touch the pumpkin innards.

We took a little break to look at the freshly falling snow.

Kayla got back to work poking the outline of Minnie into the pumpkin.

Daddy helped Allie work on Snow White. She really got into poking the outline for Snow White.
It didn't take long for the girls to loose interest. When they went off to play, Nate and I finished the pumpkins.

Nate did such a good job on Snow White. I couldn't believe how smooth all the cuts were and the inside of the pumpkin.

Kayla chose me to help her, which was fine, but let me just say, Minnie had a ton of little lines. It took ffffffooooooorrrrrreeeeevvvvveeeeerrrrrr to cut her out. Kayla was really happy with her Minnie Mouse pumpkin; so it was well worth the effort. The finished products outside in the snow. Minnie Mouse

Snow White