jack-o-lanterns

(update: I have no idea why the formatting is so messed up on this. I will work on it!)

On Monday last week, Mike and I carved pumpkins. We don't have a balcony anymore in our new apartment, but I insisted. I love carving pumpkins, as you may remember from last year's Halloween post, and I also love pumpkin seeds. We spent a few hours with patterns and markers and knives and scoops. It was so much fun. Here are the results of our handiwork:

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Mike carved three of the pumpkins, but it took me almost as much time to carve the one I did - this Goblin Goodies pumpkin. I am quite proud of it! It was very intricate and complicated, even though it was a pattern. I even altered the pattern from its ridiculous complete pattern, which spelled out Goblin Goodies above the bat, and then "from dusk til dawn" underneath the bat, in even smaller letters. I quickly vetoed that as impossible, and did it this way instead.

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We put the two larger pumpkins in the hallway outside our door on Halloween, with flashlight lanterns in them instead of candles. We got a lot of trick-or-treaters, and the pumpkins were a big hit with the kids. They inspected them, and their parents took pictures of the kids in front of them.

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This morning, when Mike and my dad went to grab them and throw them out, they lifted the lids to find this:

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Disgusting! Pumpkins definitely don't last long inside. It was worth it, though. Maresi also carved a pumpkin that didn't last long, but that's because she lives in Florida and they don't have seasons there. But they have also discovered the joy of patterns, and it's a really neat pumpkin. My goddaughter is a pretty cute pumpkin, too!