For Family Home Evening this week, we carved our pumpkins. My friend Jolene and her husband Brad, took Abby to a pumpkin patch this last week, and told her that she could pick any pumpkin she wanted as long as she could carry it. By the time that she picked one, the pumpkin she chose Brad couldn't even carry. The pumpkin in the picture is about half the size of her first choice. I told her to pick which one of her pumpkins to carve (she picked 4 pumpkins at the patch, the rest she gets to paint!) but whichever one she picked, she was going to have to clean out.
To clean it out, she had to reach in past her arm pit. They had a great time doing it.
Nate liked playing with the "guts" as he called them.
This is the only picture of Leah with her hand in the pumpkin, because once she felt what was in it, she was done with the whole idea!
The kids would draw their faces on their pumpkins, and then dad would cut it out for them.
This is the end product. It turned out to be a fun night with the kids. We get so busy with silly things, that this doesn't happen very often. As we were cleaning up, Abby told me, this was the best night ever. I love how its just the little simple things that matter to them.
Here are the pumpkins all lit up, (sorry a lot of pictures) We ended the night reading Halloween stories, and eating the caramel from what was supposed to be caramel apples. We just ran out of time. The kids are cute, and are outside every hour or so, just checking on their pumpkins.
For Family Home Evening this week, we carved our pumpkins. My friend Jolene and her husband Brad, took Abby to a pumpkin patch this last week, and told her that she could pick any pumpkin she wanted as long as she could carry it. By the time that she picked one, the pumpkin she chose Brad couldn't even carry. The pumpkin in the picture is about half the size of her first choice. I told her to pick which one of her pumpkins to carve (she picked 4 pumpkins at the patch, the rest she gets to paint!) but whichever one she picked, she was going to have to clean out.
To clean it out, she had to reach in past her arm pit. They had a great time doing it.
Nate liked playing with the "guts" as he called them.
This is the only picture of Leah with her hand in the pumpkin, because once she felt what was in it, she was done with the whole idea!
The kids would draw their faces on their pumpkins, and then dad would cut it out for them.
This is the end product. It turned out to be a fun night with the kids. We get so busy with silly things, that this doesn't happen very often. As we were cleaning up, Abby told me, this was the best night ever. I love how its just the little simple things that matter to them.
Here are the pumpkins all lit up, (sorry a lot of pictures) We ended the night reading Halloween stories, and eating the caramel from what was supposed to be caramel apples. We just ran out of time. The kids are cute, and are outside every hour or so, just checking on their pumpkins.
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4 comments:
What a fun FHE. Smart idea having them draw their faces and then Dad cutting. I can't believe the sizes of them.
This makes me excited for our pumpkin carving on Monday!! Turned out cute!
What a cool idea for FHE!! Those huge, I've never seen them that big!
I love all the pictures! And the pumpkins turned out so awesome. Good job! :D
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