Pumpkin Carving Family Night (with a friend!)

Our helpers were... Mackenzie Sam

and Aubrey...

Daddy scooped out the yucky insides

Mackenzie felt very important with her job of being the bag holder

Everyone participated in saying, "Ewww" and "Yucky!"

We tried to use our regular knives to cut out a pumpkin face, but it was making very slow progress and we were losing the troops. Then Daddy said, "Hold on a minute," and disappeared.
We heard loud noises coming from the garage a few minutes later and this is what our investigation found!

He said, "What? I have a tool for this... why can't I use it?"

When it was finished both of the girls were so happy they wanted to kiss it! What a girl thing to do with a pumpkin... Sam didn't feel the need to lay a smackeroo on it!

Mommy said, "Let's go get the candles guys!" (Jake was busy spraying off the debris from the carving with his air compressor... honestly! I asked him to be excited and involved with the carving, but next time I'll be more careful to clarify what I mean!) This is what my little helpers came back with... birthday candles!

We found the right candles and daddy lit it up!

Aubrey was still obsessed with kissing the pumpkin!

Our three little pumpkin heads...

... and the man behind the magic!

p.s. for objections to the fact that we have a Jack from the Nightmare Before Christmas carved into our pumpkin, see Jake. I wanted a happy pumpkin with triangle eyes, a square nose, and a happy smile... but asking Jake to get involved meant giving up certain mom-rights even over what actually got carved into our happy little pumpkin.