Our Pumpkin Carving Tradition

For the past 7 years, our family has carved our pumpkins just before Halloween. So this year we went all out! We carved our pumpkins, baked chocolate chip cookies and stayed up to watch Monster vs. Aliens Halloween TV special. The boys were so excited!

Last year, we carved our pumpkins and about 6 months later we had a pumpkin vine grow unexpectedly from the leftover seeds. So, we only got two small pumpkins from it, but one of them is pictured here. Needless to say, the boys went crazy throwing the seeds out in the grass in hopes for another pumpkin to grow again next year...we will see.