On the Night Before Halloween…

Ninja really wanted to know if we were finally going to get around to carving the pumpkins??

Brad managed to get away from work a little earlier than normal, the kids had homework done, and I had thrown a batch of chili in the crock pot, so we got set up to carve our jack-o-lanterns. The cats were very curious. Pumpkins were hard to come by our last couple of years and so we haven’t had a chance to do this in quite some time! These are probably our first pumpkins since our time in Amman.

Ninja made sure to read all of the instructions.

And she inspected my work closely…

Verrrrry closely…  (she is so trusting… )

She also made sure that Honor’s pumpkin tasted good.

Brian took his work very seriously.

This was probably the first year that everyone did their own pumpkin – design and carving, and we all had a lot of fun with it.

And finally! We were done. Brad was first with his happy, traditional style Pumpkin:

I finished mine next. The kids had told me to make something ‘scary’, so I created a vampire bunneeee!! (It has fangs like this!!)

Brian came up with a haunted castle with a wizard:

And Honor made a very awesome diva cat!

All together now…

And then we had chili for dinner. Well, some of us did. Some invited themselves to the table and just wished they could have chili for dinner.