Pumpkin Carving!

Halloween has never been a very big deal in our family, although every year we DO carve a pumpkin or two. The kids absolutely love it and surprisingly enough, they both love to reach inside the pumpkin and pull out the "guts"! We carve the same looking pumpkin every year and Mommy always marks the pumpkin face and Daddy cuts:

• (2) hearts for the eyes showing the love we have for Jesus
  
• a cross for the nose showing the love He has for us


• an icthus for the mouth showing our faith in Him

Obviously, we then put a candle inside and set it on our porch. Except for this year......

This picture shows how far we went with the whole "pumpkin carving" thing until it got ugly! And don't let these precious little smiles fool you either!

Shortly after this picture was taken, they began fighting over whose pumpkin had more "guts" and before we knew it, it had escalated to the point that Elijah reached into his pumpkin and fiercely (not playfully) threw his "guts" at Isabella. So, she threw her "guts" on him as my jaw hit the floor! Daddy swooped in and showed his "guts" by shutting down the "pumpking carving booth", giving them baths and sending them to bed pumpkinless! Needless to say, we told the kids they would have to wait until Aunt Brittany came in town this weekend to finish the pumpkin carving (because she wanted to do that with them!). When she came over to carve the pumpkins with the kids, we lifted their lids and they were rotten and disgusting! So.....no pretty carved pumpkins this year, so here is a picture of our typical pumpkin from 2 years ago (since I can't find the picture from last year). So cute!