Pumpkin Carving

So I know I have been slacking in the blogging world.  I haven’t actually blogged for about 2 months.  Where did the time go?  After school started, it seems like we have been going like crazy!  Thanks to the wonderful world of Live Writer (where I write all my posts) I have been able to set the “post date” for my posts so I can backdate them to the appropriate time.  You will notice that there are several new posts following this one – even though they weren’t there yesterday.  I hope that you might have time to look through them all!  There are some cute pictures anyway! 

My kids always look forward to carving pumpkins.  We used to have an “in” with the Beck Family Farms in Gunnison, Utah where we would get all our pumpkins.  Now we live too far away to enjoy their generosity – so I have to BUY pumpkins.  I know I should grow some but that is for a different post completely!!  So I watch for a good deal and then buy enough to carve and an extra to make our traditional Dinner in a Pumpkin meal.  They were on sale this year for 9 cents a pound at Super 1.  I bought 4 pumpkins and they sat on our front step for about 10 days before we finally decided we better carve them – the night before Halloween.  I know were were cutting it close, but when you live in the country, no one comes over to see your carved pumpkins anyway! 

The kids had a good time and I decided to carve the pumpkin I had bought for dinner.  Then then next night I cooked it in the oven with the meat inside.  The holes were small enough that the meat stayed inside. It was also kinda fun to watch it cook!  Here it is before – I don’t have a picture of it after I cooked it – should have thought of that!

Here are all the kids and their creations.  They love carving pumpkins!

And finally, the finished products!  In order from left: Brooke’s, Kaydra’s, Kanyon’s, and Miranda’s.