Jack-o-Lanterns

This past week or so has just been crazy, and to top it all off, Charles had the sniffles. I tried to make him feel a little better by cooking vegetable soup. He really enjoyed it, and I was excited to be able to finally use my new pumpkin bowls!
It must have helped because Charles is feeling much better now!

So, tonight we were finally able to carve out some time to carve our jack-o-lanterns...

We went this past weekend and picked out the pumpkins we wanted to carve. Although I found the short, round one, it's the one Charles came home with, so I chose the taller, skinnier one for my jack-o-lantern this year...

We began by putting on our Halloween CD for some inspiration and cut off the tops of our pumpkins and scooped out the seeds and stuff - my favorite part!We then each decided on what our jack-o-lanterns would look like and started carving.

This took lots of concentration...Charles' jack-o-lantern turned out great - as usual!Here's my happy guy!
After we finished carving our jack-o-lanterns, we took them out front...
They show up really well from the street!
Now our entry is ready for the trick-or-treaters this Friday!

We made a quick little stop with our jack-o-lanterns from the back porch where we carved them to the front.

Toula found the jack-o-lanterns very interesting!

She had to do a little investigating to try to figure out what exactly they were...

She was very curious and had to check them out from all angles...
She was a very brave little bunny. The different shapes, smells and warmth from the candles didn't send her under the couch for cover!