Pumpkin Carving!

This will be Dave and my 5th Halloween as a married couple. We started the tradition of going to a pumpkin patch and picking out a pumpkin together to bring home and carve five Halloween's ago. We have had so much fun with the addition of Emily and Ally and getting mini-pumpkins for them to play around with. Today we went and picked out our pumpkins at a patch near our house. We were surprised that along with growing pumpkins, the owners of the patch also farmed llamas. Emily kept wanting to pet the llamas that were walking around us but neither Dave nor I know anything about llama friendliness so we told her to just look and not touch. We brought our pumpkins home and tonight we spent some quality time around the table carving, painting, and throwing pumpkins. Here are some pictures of the day. They are a little bit out of order but still fun to look at!

Ally's first pumpkin. She was more interested in eating it than carving it.

Emily and her 3rd pumpkin.

Dave teasing Ally...

...and Emily

Emily painting her pumpkin.

Ally telling us about the pumpkin.

Dave's finished product all lit up (and in case you can't tell, it is Snow White, Emily's choice).

Emily giving her approval.

Ally got bored of throwing her pumpkin overboard. We had to entertain her in other ways.

Emily proudly displaying her finished pumpkin.

Dave carving the top out.