Pumpkin Expert

yeah...alot of halloween related posts, I know. Oh well. :)

My husband loves carving pumpkins and is quite good at. However this year and last (since his main pumpkin carving buddy has been on a mission in DC) his plans have been bigger than his action. He gets about 4 pumpkins just for him and searches out the most complicated patterns ever. This year he managed to finish one of his patterns, and all though he "messed up a few times" it still looks pretty cool. The other pumpkins MIGHT become cool thanksgiving carvings, a pumkin treat, or most likely just be yard decoration until they decay so much we have to toss them. The year before last ,some unnamed genius moved 2 of the unused pumkins downstairs into the storage room. They completly got covered up and forgotten about until the stench was too strong to ignore (11mo. later) and the pumkins had become orange mush all over the carpet. Gross...I know. Since then we have done very well to at least keep the floor clear and the pumpkins outside. :)

The spider is mine, not as elaborate as Derek's, but still fun. We like to hear the comments of trick or treaters as they walk up our steps "wwwoooww" "look at that awesome pumpkin" and "now that is a great pumpkin, well done, well done indeed" that last one was froma 10 yr old girl and we thought it was cute to hear her say that. I pretend their comments are directed at my spider as well as the joker. Oh, I don't think their is a picture of my AWESOME spider. It might be better that way. Now we can imagine him much more intricate then he really is :)

This is part of our halloween wall. I colored a few of those so that can be my claim to fame...derek can have the pumpkin carving.