Pumpkins with my pumpkins

We had a delightful family night on Saturday with our two little pumpkins (Ethan and Ella)!

Ethan was really excited to help Daddy carve his pumpkin, and has been asking to do it for quite a while!

Here they are showing off the finished product!

The kids were simply thrilled when Errett placed the candles inside and lit them up!

It was really cold out, but we all went out to watch them glow (for just a minute) on the front porch.

Ella loved digging her little fingers into her pumpkin and digging out the goo inside!

She sat and sorted through the pumpkin seeds carefully! Ethan thought it was really neat that Ella has just a single tooth on her pumpkin, because she does not have a lot of teeth herself!
Althougth E has been very excited to carve his pumpkin, he was less than thrilled when Errett actually cut off the top for him to clean it out! The smell made him gag and he was not about to stick his hand in that pumpkin! The sweet little man recovered quite quickly and was helping his sis to sort seeds happiily soon!

They loved watching Errett carve the happy faces on their pumpkins!

We are not really big fans of the scary, spooky, wicked part of Halloween, so we spent time reading some positive books about this holiday! This way we get to have fun with it, while emphasizing on it the way we want to. We have been reading The Pumpkin Gospel and The Pumpkin Patch Parable, along with other pumpkin books, over and over for the past few weeks. The kids chose the happy pumpkin faces in their books to have on their own pumpkins!

Here are the kids sorting out the seeds. We buttered and salted them, roasted them, and they were such a yummy snack! We finished the evening off with our pumpkin sugar cookie cutouts that Ethan and I had made previously and pumpkin muffins too! Yum!

Could fall be more fun???