Pumpkin Carving

We try to make Friday nights family night at our house and come up with an activity or something fun for us all to do together. Last Friday night the perfect thing to do was to carve pumpkins together!

While we were carving pumpkins, our doorbell rang. When the kids went to the door, there was no one there, but there was a bag of treats and a sign that said "You have been boo'd!" The treats in the bag included these silly glasses!

Everyone is hard at work!

Brandon is designing his pumpkin face.

Bekah is designing her face, complete with eyelashes!

Oooooh, pumpkin guts!

Bekah is picking out the seeds. The kids had never tasted toasted pumpkin seeds, so we did that this year. They both decided that they taste okay, but not great.

This is the master carver hard at work!

The end results! This is Brandon's pumpkin along with Todd's fish.

Bekah's pumpkin and Todd's cross.

We all had a fun time working on our pumpkins. We talked with the kids about how pumpkins are like us. We are filled with lots of yucky stuff. When we become Christians, God takes our yucky stuff (sin) away and He places His light inside us. We get a new "face" or a new life in Him! Then we are to shine His light for all the world to see!