Jack-o-lanterns

In lieu of the upcoming holiday, Jack's birthday (and Halloween), we decided to get into the holiday spirit and carve a few pumpkins of our own! Yesterday, we picked out three pumpkins and got busy with our designs. (I know you are wondering why we only picked three when, technically, there are four of us. Bun, you see, eats pumpkin seeds for treats. And when we decided to get to carving, we decided that three would be enough for the four of us, especially since Bun celebrates the holiday by munching on the seeds...That's a believable story, right?! To be quite honest, I completely forgot to get a pumpkin for Bun, and now I feel terrible.)

Nevertheless, we had three pumpkins and last night we got to carving! I cleaned the pumpkins out while Brian and I both did our own designs. Jack's pumpkin was so difficult to cut into so instead of losing a few fingers in the carving process we decided to get creative and paint his. That was the much wiser and easier decision for both of us. We created a 'Jack's worst nightmare' pumpkin where his dearly beloved treat is stuck in a spider web with the spider on its way to capture its prey (Jack's bone)... This seriously would be Jack's worst nightmare. Brian's pumpkin is a mixture of goofy and drunk, and mine is a rendition of Jack Skellington, aka, 'The Pumpkin King', from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

We had an awesome time carving, and what satisfaction to add the candles! Our pumpkins looked awesome on our porch, lit with candles, illuminating the holiday for all the passersby! Check out our photos below!