Pumpkin Time!!

Oh how I have enjoyed this fall!! It has been so fun to be on my feet and enjoying the simple things in life with my family. We had a fun afternoon full of playing in the leaves and now a fun evening of carving pumpkins. You don't realize what you take for grantide until you don't have it. This year I have it and am not taking it for grantide. We kind of got a late start this Monday evening on FHE, but I didn't care. I was excited to carve pumpkins with the kids. Meg and I had bought a fun book with patterns and a few carving tools and were ready to have fun with the rest of the family. The girls did patterns and the boys made up their own designs. It was SO MUCH FUN!!

Crazy kids! Not sure what they were all doing but I do know we were having fun while doing it!!

Andy making fun of how Aidan's eyes look closed when he smiles (he takes after his mom). Thye were pumpkin carving buddies and had tons of fun together. Aidan just always keeps us laughing.

Once again Andy making fun of Aidan's eyes when he smiles and trying to get him to open his eyes wide. What handsome boys!!

Aaron going at the carving. He did his all on his own and boy was it scary looking. He didn't even gag this year when he cleaned his pumpkin out!!

Goofy Aidan having lots of fun!

Meg had fun carving the other side of her pumpkin she had decorated at preschool.

The perfect sized pumpking for our little pumpkin. Kenna just loved all the fun the came with pumpkin carving.

Our sweet little Ashlee Rose! She just walked around smiling and soaking up all the fun. She really wanted to eat the pumpkins. She loved stealing the tops off the pumpkins.

Attempting a picture with all five kids looking normal is practically impossible!

And it didn't get any better the more pics I took!

The only downside to all this hard work was the our pumpkins were stolen off our front step the night before Halloween. I had been so diligent in bringing the pumpkins in every night and putting them out the next day, but I forgot on Friday night. The kids were very sad to see their pumpkins gone. Even more, they were sad that their little battery operated lights were in them (all except Kenna's). It is so sad that some kids think it is fun or something to steal little kids pumpkins. Oh well! Can't wait for next year's creations!!