Carving vs. Painting. . . Carving wins

After we retrieved our perfect pumpkins from the muddy pumpkin patch, it was time to carve them. Joseph was very excited about the process, and prepared  the floor with newspapers while I was busy doing other things.  And then the fun began.

 Dan has always been and still is the official pumpkin gut remover.  But, we insisted that Joseph do his best to help. Which he did, with the help of gloves.

 Joseph custom designed his pumpkin and decided to carve both sides. 

 And this was his first year to carve the pumpkin all by himself.  Which made it even more fun. 

 

 

 Ta-da!  One side of the carved pumpkin

 and the other side.  Awesome!

 The girls had other plans. Bailey saw this super cute pumpkin on Pinterest:

So, she decided to be all Pinterest-y and copy it.  Except that she got the pumpkin painted black but then decided it was too much work to carve the face.  So, we had an awesome black pumpkin to put on our front doorstep.

 And Aubrey found this pumpkin on Pinterest:

And decided to recreate it.

Except she lost interest in the process after painting the pumpkin a beautiful shade of blue.  So the blue pumpkin joined the black one on our front steps.

So, in the battle of carving vs. painting, carving definitely won, due to the fact that the painters never reached the finish line!