It's no secret in my family that we tend to procrastinate, but seriously, who doesn't? We're working on this problem everyday, but this year, procratination paid off a little!
Bug pronounced earlier this week, in her own very frank way, "Sure would be nice if would could go ahead and get our pumpkins, huh?"
So, after a 10 minute kindergartener lecture on the finer points of how to carve a pumpkin, and a sincere promise from said kindergartener the she would absolutely clean all of the slimey guts out of her own pumpkin, we made a pumpkin patch date for Thursday before dance.
this is ACE's pumpkin
(Bug's didn't get a before shot from some reason)
She ended up being mostly good on her promise...
I did end up getting a little slimy.
ACE, however wasn't too sure about the whole pumpking guts thing...
He tried to refuse...
But in the end, he did his fair share...
After we were all gutted out, we hit the google for some super cool pumpkin stencils, because ordinary pumpkins just weren't going to cut it this year, we wanted "Cool Pumpkins" (according to Bug).
Once Hubs arrived, just in time for the carving part, he scrapped Ace's stencil and went old school with a bunch of triangles. Bug picked out a pig stencil, we figured with all of the swine flu hype, it would be appropriate!
Here's the finished project...
And all aglow...
In the end we were all happy and eating toasted seeds.
And just to prove that sometimes procrastination does pay,
the pumpkin patch was having a 1/2 price sale, we saved 8.50!
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