Happy Harvest!

We had so much fun carving pumpkins this year. We got two giant pumpkins from a friend of ours {plus the ones we picked at the field} and they were so cool! I thought they would be hard to carve, but they were surprisingly easy. Not so easy to carry in and set on the table though! We cleaned them out and saved the seeds. I was so excited to roast up those seeds but unfortunately they did not taste good. Apparently the seeds from the big pumpkins do not make good roasting seeds. Good to know. Next year I won't waste all that time seperating them out, ugggg! We did have tons of fun cleaning out the pumpkin guts though.

Even baby sister got in on the action!

Ta-da! A happy pumpkin and an angry pumpkin, by order of the children. The silly pumpkin had to wait until daddy got home, it was to heavy for mommy...

Hubby and the boys did a great job on the silly pumpkin...

...and it joined the others out front. I love glowing happy, silly and even angry jack-o-lanterns!

This year at our Harvest party we had a clown, a bad spidey, a strawberry fairy and a joker. I was pretty proud of myself for keeping the total budget under 10 dollars...Of course it helped that Lala's adorable outfit was a birthday present. I guess putting things of until the last moment can some times pay off... :)

Can you guys guess who the sassy one in the family is?

We had an awesome Harvest party on Halloween with a couple close friends and no one seemed to mind that there wasn't a single piece of candy involved. I'd call it a success. We will definitely be doing that again next year...