Carving Pumpkins

Every year Sarah and I get pumpkins with the full intention of carving them on the first day of the Halloween week. However, for about seven years straight we have never seemed to get them carved until the last ten minutes before we head out for trick-or-treating on the big night. When we stopped trick-or-treating, after elementary school, we had plenty of time to carve the pumpkins, but we still found a way to procrastinate.

It is ironic that on the busiest Halloween week in my life, we actually carved our pumpkins early. This was a big shocker for me and my family.

Well let's get down to the business...we'll start with Sarah.

For some reason Sarah felt the need to give her pumpkin a bath in the sink. I guess she is practicing for when she has kids of her own. I really don't know what goes on that little head of hers.

Now I would assume that Sarah is practicing for her wedding day. Again, I really don't know when it comes to Sarah....

After hours of searching for the perfect pumpkin design, Sarah find a cute little ghost to carve.

Tedious work I tell you...

"Pa, pa, pa, poker face, pa, pa, poker face..."

Sarah's muscles put too much pressure on the carving tools. When it happened she acted all innocent.

Sarah messed up on her ghost design, so she decided to carve big eyes. I felt like I was in an art gallery when I was looking at Sarah's pumpkin. Not because it was beautiful, but because I felt like I was seeing something that wasn't intended to be seen....

Of course after I told Sarah what I was seeing, she decided it was necessary to add some pupils to the eyes... we thought this would humor some visitors during the week.

My pumpkin was ginormous. I knew exactly what I wanted to carve.

My IOWA HAWKEYES baby... I was so excited to carve my pumpkin.

I took forever to carve my pumpkin. I had a ton of fun though.

Well, by the end of the night we finished our creations. Let's just hope we can get a head start next year.