Pumpkin Carving

I'm a bit behind with my posts since our laptop just died last week---yes, another in the long list of things in our life that are breaking--but more about that later. I took it in and found we had a hardrive failure so we need a new one. :( The good news is that I actually had everything from our laptop backed up on an external hard drive (I had asked for an external hard drive for Christmas last year and Matt made so much fun of me, but now I'm so glad I had it.)
Anyways, we aren't sure what we are going to do about the laptop, but in the meantime I have to use our desktop which is in the basement and is incredibly slow. I loved having the wireless laptop and being able to work on it anywhere and am slowly adjusting to having to sit patiently for this ancient thing to keep up. But it is teaching me patience!
Enough about the computer---on to our pumpkin carving!

We carved our pumpkins on Monday night because it was the only night all week that we would all be together as a family until friday on Halloween. I wasn't sure if they'd still look that great on Halloween, but it was more important to be able to do it together!

This was the first year Wyatt really enjoyed getting dirty and sticking his hands in the pumpkin.

Sadie sat in her chair and attempted to eat the pumpkin--YUCK!
He was so proud of his pumpkin and wanted to make sure it was a 'happy face'

This is what happens when you pick the biggest pumpkin you can find! You'll have to see the finished product in the Halloween post!