Pumpkin Fun

For Family Home Evening tonight, we decided to carve pumpkins. It ended up being really fun. Sometimes the fun ideas don’t really end up being fun, but this one actually did. We had two pumpkins; one really big pumpkin, and one really small one. While Johnny worked on the large pumpkin, Elle and I proceeded to work on the smaller one. Elle really enjoyed cutting the top—with a butter knife mind you—and was surprisingly a lot of help. However, when it came time to getting the seeds out, she wasn’t as much help. She looked at me and said, “That’s yucky.” I told her it kind of was, but it was also fun. She told me she would not stick her hand inside the scary pumpkin, but she did help me get the seeds out by using a spoon. Silly girl. After we dug/spooned out the seeds, Elle and I put the potato head pumpkin pieces into her pumpkin and voila; a princess pumpkin. Elle was thrilled. She just loved her princess pumpkin. Then, we salted and toasted the pumpkin seeds to make a delicious snack. Yum. It really was a fun Halloween Family Home Evening.