Pumpkin Carving Party

For years I've been thinking of having a birthday party where people come over and we carve pumpkins. But for years things keep getting in the way. Not this year. We invited our friends, gave a pumpkin to the first five people to RSVP, put a tarp down in the living room (which the cat did not like AT ALL) and started gutting.

Matt eschews carving for a more artsy appearance. Notice he is wearing rain gear to keep the pumpkin off of him.

Heidi and Kevin get to work.

Aunt Carol & Aunt Pat

Mom plots her plan of attack.

Ameena, Burt & Jeff

Matt's finished product. He took a lot of pictures of the details.

Here you can see old razor blades, feathers from a rejected cat toy and the sauerkraut he used as eyebrows.

Here are more razor blades and salt capsules from his marathon days.

Here are the pen arms.

And yet another closeup of the razor blades.

And the artist posing with his creation.

Kevin (who we learned doesn't really like Halloween) poses with his cat pumpkin.

Burt and his creation.

Kelly arrived late, but wasted no time in carving.

Kevin holding both of his carvings.

Heidi had a great free-form creation.

Which she posed well with.

Midway through the party, Matt carved "bs" into one side of a pumpkin and "ty" into another side. He got all giggly and he and Jeff stole another pumpkin and retreated into the bedroom. They were both full of chuckles when they came out, but refused to say what they had been doing. However, the evidence was on the camera.

Jeff making a new word with my Aunt Carol's "boo" pumpkin. Note that Matt was so amused by this, he didn't even get Jeff's head in the picture.

Matt making a new word also. (Note that Jeff can properly frame the picture.)

Inappropriate!

Ameena and her creation.

Aunt Pat and her creation.

Aunt Carol made a mummy.

Jeff's carving.

Note that there are no pictures of my creations. They were good too. After the party was over, we were both exhausted. All that creative effort really sapped our energy.