Jack-O-Lanterns

It has been years since I have carved a pumpkin.  I think the last time I remember carving a pumpkin was my freshman year in college...2003!  It has been a while.  I told Ben we HAD to carve pumpkins this year.
In 2008, right after we got married we bought a pumpkin to carve together for Family Home Evening...but that darn pumpkin sat on our porch (un-carved) until the END of November!  Pathetic I know.
Two weekends ago we went down to Utah to visit family and while we were there my Grandparents gave us two pumpkins.  We were off to a good start, we had the pumpkins.  Now all we had to do was plan a night to actually carve them.   We invited Michelle, my sister, and her husband Stephen over to carve pumpkins with us last night.

Reese was in bed before we started carving the pumpkins but I had to get a picture of her with our beautiful pumpkins.  She thought they were pretty fun toys.

 I just have to say that I have a pretty awesome husband.  I had just finished cutting the top of the pumpkin and I couldn't pop the top off, well he came over and popped that sucker right off.  As we were gutting our pumpkins everyone was finishing and I was STILL cleaning.

I swear I wasn't even making a dent in all of his pumpkins guts.  Well Ben being the wonderful husband that he is offered to clean the rest of my pumpkin out.  He is just too good to me.

We had a lot of fun carving our pumpkins.  Ben was so funny, instead of using a knife like most people do...

that's right...he opted to use a drill.  He is such a man! :o)

Well anyways I am so glad that I finally got to carve pumpkins again after a seven year absence.  It was just as great as I remembered!  Here are some pictures of our cute little Jack-o-lanterns after they are all carved.  Thanks Chelle and Stephen for coming and carving pumpkins with us!

We didn't have any candles to light our jack-o-lanterns so we used Stephen's phone to light them...it worked!

Stephen's was a little werewolf.  Ben was super creative and carved our little family.  I tried carving Jack from the movie Nightmare before Christmas and Michelle's Jack-o-lantern has birds for the eyes!