Pumpkin Carving 2011 - Halloween Photography

After our 2011 outing to Kula Farms, we save the pumpkins until about two or three days before Halloween and carve them up.  This year we had to do the carving by the Thursday before, since we had parties to attend on both Friday and Saturday.  Halloween wasn't until Monday, though.  This meant that several of the pumkins bit the dust by Saturday night, including my cute little green guy.  The high temperatures, intense humidity and overall Maui weather can kill a pumpkin deader than anything else you can imagine, sliming him up to make him look like nothing at all that Martha Stewart would decorate with on purpose.  That's for sure.  He can become very scary in about 48 hours, full of mold and bugs and you name it.  Eick!!  I was amazed that we even had any pumpkins at all to put out on Halloween night, but we did.

Enough about that though.  Here are some of the pictures of our fun night of pumpkin carving.

Mr. Indecisive tries to decide on a design for his pumpkin's face.  This guy does not like to make a decision.  Okay, I admit it.  He gets that trait from me, so I try to be patient with him - even if we are standing there waiting until the next day sometimes.  Check out my desk.  They say that a cluttered desk is a sign of a creative mind.  Boy my mind must be pretty darn creative then, wouldn't you say!  I'd say!  Of course part of that mess is all the drawings I get in a day from my four very artistic and creative kids.  I can clean it (yes, I do clean it) and by evening it can be all messed up again with drawings and notes and you name it.

Did I mention those creative little minds I'm raising.  They got to work on their own pumpkin face designs.

Here's the design I chose for my cute, little, green pumpkin.  Didn't he turn out well?  Mari helped her father and they made him for me.  Now he's all set to decorate the party.