Pumpkins past and present

Pumpkin carving has gotten more complicated over the past few years and a lot more time consuming. The easy part is getting the pumpkin gutted...
We have gotten some special carving tools and it is the third year we have used templates for our carving. It took us almost 2 hours last night to complete our creepy pumpkins with the kids.
The girls had to pick templates that Steve and I at least felt we could do. They also helped poke the holes to transfer the template to their pumpkins.

Look at the concentration on Steve's face!

Here are the finished pumpkins.

The results of Kippy's and my efforts.

Abby & Steve's final product.

Now on to some of the pumpkins from the past....

Nice and simple for Halloween 2004

We even made some non-carved pumpkins in 2005

2006 Pumpkins... obviously no templates and the kids did their own drawings.

Halloween pumpkins in 2007 using templates for the first time.

2008 carved creations....

Now I think I am going to go eat some more toasted pumpkin seeds and prepare to hand out treats to the spooky treaters who dare to stop by.