Carve O Lantern

After a nice afternoon over at Gene's, we spent the evening carving out the two perfectly plump pumpkins we picked! Each year Ledger has tried to pass off the gross work of emptying out the pumpkin guts, and this year was no different... He cut off the tops and then passed them over to me to clean out. That kid does not want to get dirty! This year we didn't bother to do anything with the seeds. We tried that a couple years ago and then didn't actually like them. 

After cleaning them out, Ledger grabbed a white board marker (that way he could erase it if he doesn't like his design) and drew on the funny faces. I helped a bit with the detail work, but most of the face carving was him this year! 

When they were done, we dug through the junk drawers and amazingly found the old battery powered candles left over from the four pack last year. We set them out on the front porch and admired them- now our Halloween decorating is complete!
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