Carving Pumpkins!!!

T'was a few days before Halloween and our very last Sunday.....

To get our pumpkins carved, and just in time for the treat fun day!!!

So daddy got the knife out and started to work!

And Griffin and Cash made sure he didn't shirk!

While Ivy and mom went up for a shower!

They got the pumpkins carved - in less than an hour!

And scary and happy and out on the porch!

And yes, I am doing a Christmas rhyme because I really am a dork!

The boys took care of our pumpkin carving this year and except for the fact we saw how really weak Griffin's stomach was, it was a fun and not very messy event!  Griffin apparently doesn't like the smell or sight of the pumpkin seeds and guts and it sent him twice to the garbage can puking his own guts up!  He wasn't bothered at all by it, saying he was fine right after and running right back to the counter and jumping in, but I was completely grossed out by it and so took Ivy and we went to try to blast some of our colds out of our bodies by taking a shower while they finished all the pumpkins!  We came down for the lighting on the porch and they turned out great!

Love that Chip is so focused (in all these pics)

Funny boys!

 Cheese!  

 Griff loved the lighting of the pumpkins and wanted to be right close for all the pics!  He is a true Cali boy now that thinks its totally fine to have no shirt on in October!

Ivy only wanted to be by the smiley pumpkin - the other one she kept saying "scarrrry!" to! 

 Cute kiddos!

 Happy and Scary!

 A quick cheese for the camera before running away from this side!

Forgot to post Cash's big project a few weeks ago - he had to create himself out of this pumpkin, using beads, fabric, sparkles, yarn, whatever he wanted for his class wall!  Griffin insisted on having his picture with the finished product first!  A proud little bro!

 Close up of his project - his picture of his face was from Halloween 2 years ago when he was a skeleton!  Pretty scary Cash!  The pumpkin face was made of felt and he told me what shapes to cut out for each thing - but didn't want to cut them himself  "because mom's sewing scissors are so sharp they might cut him and the glue is sticky and he doesn't want sticky fingers or to burn his hands with the hot glue!"  Such a thinker that Cash - thus he picked out everything on here - from the fabric sword in one hand to the trick-or-treat bag in the other with a bow of yarn, the glitter boots and where the rhinestones went, and the skeleton arms!  Mom was the putter-on girl!  Turned out cute!

Love my Cashee boy!  Such a doll and so sweet and smart! Very creative too!

 Also this month we had a visit from our friends Megan and Sammy!  It had been a long time since we have seen them and they came out for a Disneyland trip with family and made a day to come see us and have a playdate and we were so glad.  Always fun to catch up!  We love visitors!  And Ivy hadn't met Megan but went right to her and wouldn't come back to me.  What can I say - Megan is every kid's BFF - kids love her and she is so sweet to them!  All 3 of mine love Miss Megan!  They had a great time playing with Sammy too!  Come back soon guys!