Happy Halloween!

We love carving pumpkins, and usually go all out. Typically, we carve our pumpkins a few days before the main event. We’re not sure if it’s the quality of the pumpkins or the humidity here in Virginia. But, in recent years, our sculptured squashes have quickly spoiled and folded in on themselves – not lasting to greet the trick-or-treaters. This year we forced ourselves to wait until the night before Halloween for the Jensen carving party.

Adelaide was pretty excited about the pumpkins when we bought them, especially the little, “Adelaide-sized” pumpkin. But, she was much less enthusiastic when she found out we were going cut them open and stick our hands inside of them.

Hanging out with pumpkins, good times.

Wait...why did we cut it open?

Ew, Ew, Ew! No, No, No!

I guess we can’t blame her. If we put our thumbs in our mouths as often as Adelaide does….we probably wouldn’t want to stick our hands in weird sticky pumpkin goop either. So, for Adelaide’s pumpkin, we broke out some more thumb-sucker friendly decorating techniques.

Mom helped a lot. Adelaide spent most of

her time trying to chew on the foam stickers.

After Adelaide went to bed, we brought the knifes back out and got to work. Driven by roasted pumpkin seeds and ambitious plans, we think our end results are pretty good.

Melinda created the Goblin.

Matt carved the Gator.

Though he doesn’t start MBA classes until January, we’ve already started paying tuition to the University of Florida – so that makes Matt officially a Gator. Clearly, a celebratory pumpkin was in order.

We're ready, bring on the trick-or-treaters. Happy Halloween!