Friday Family Fun Night: Carving Pumpkins

Every Friday night we have something called Friday Family Fun Night.  It is an afternoon/night that we dedicate to doing fun things as a family, whether it is going to an outdoor concert and having a picnic dinner, or having a family sleepover in the family room.  The girls look forward to it all week and usually help with ideas for what we can do.  Since it was right before Halloween, we obviously had to carve pumpkins.  Originally, Roo wanted to paint hers, but since I still haven’t unpacked the paint, we decided to carve them.  The girls drew pictures on their pumpkins, and then Devin got to work.  He asked the girls to help him when it was time to scrape out the seeds.  I think they each barely touched the inside of the pumpkins and were immediately disgusted with the sliminess.  Their daddy saved the day by doing it all.  Bubs was chilling in his highchair the entire time, and was great as usual.  We roasted the pumpkin seeds later that night and made sweet ones and savory ones.  The sweet ones were better and even the girls loved them.  I somehow forgot to take a picture of the finished pumpkins.  For the next few days, we had the pumpkins sitting on our kitchen counter.  I accidentally brushed the side of one and felt a wet feeling.  I looked at the pumpkins and realized that they were already moldy.  Gross!  It wasn’t even Halloween yet, but we immediately tossed them.  Next year we’ll definitely take the pumpkins outside right after they are carved. J

I love Devin's face in this...

and it looks like Bubs is trying to imitate that face!