Obligatory Pumpkin Carving

I don't know about you all, but I always THINK carving pumpkins sounds like a fun idea until all of a sudden, it's the last week of October (two days before Halloween, in fact) and you realize you still haven't carved them. In reality, it's a lot of messy work and takes a good chunk of time to carve them. If you're like me, you can convince your husband to buy two pumpkins, have ideas of what you'd like to carve into them, and then ask your husband to do all of the cutting, tracing, and poking. :) The kids enjoyed cleaning them out this year, although Baylen decided he was not a fan of the "insides" and spent more time watching or playing with his cars. Brynn enjoyed helping me pull out the seeds and picking out the design she wanted her dad to carve into the pumpkin. Maybe next year I'll remember how much time it takes/work it requires and find those pumpkin decorating kits or we'll paint them...