Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

We had over family for our pumpkin carving contest the Friday before Halloween.  Everyone takes this contest pretty seriously;)  We had several participants spend more than 2 hours on their entry.  Those who didn't carve had a good time watching those that did and eating yummy Halloweeny food.

Ian doesn't have the attention span to even help with the pumpkin carving, so he helped in the kitchen

Clara picked out her design early this year.  She wanted to make a Hag-o-lantern , that she found in my Martha Stewart Living Magazine this year. (Unfortunately, I didn't get a great picture of hers)  Click on the link to see a good picture of what it looks like.  Brittany was nice enough to help her put it together.

Adam decided to see how his dental instruments would work on pumpkins (he made the owl pumpkin)

Buddy decided to carve a pumpkin dedicated to Florida State University, since he and Brittany have both graduated from there.

Niky and Paul brought some cute mummys in a blanket and carved up an awesome scary scarecrow pumpkin.

Ana worked really hard on her fiery pumpkin face.

Here are the results:

And of course we made some yummy pumpkin seeds.

We are already excited about next year and have plans to get better tools for even better jack-o-lanterns!