Cool pumpkins!

I'm with you. Halloween isn't my favorite. Sam (3 1/2) hates the dressing up part. Will not do it. Pumpkins are much fun though.

And even better than the pumkins...beautiful kids. :-)

With apologies to Charles Schulz, those are truly Great Pumpkins. (The squash are cute, too ;-) )

Adorable children. Love the kitty pumpkin the best!

Wow, those are impressive!! What adorable little kidlets too!

I just cannot say how awestruck I am over your pumpkin carvings. I remember your last year's offering too - truly amazing. What type of cutting tools do you use (aside from your wonderful artistic abilities!)?

Thanks, everyone. Tricia, we just have one of those plastic carving sets with various saws and a scooper. I think we got it at Wal-Mart several years ago.

Plastic carving sets? Don't you own power tools?

[There's a thought for a book - "The Router Jack O'Lantern: An Illustrated Guide"]

Dan, we don't do any extreme pumpkin carving here. I do most of the carving and I don't particularly like power tools.

Did you save the seeds? It's difficult to turn your back on some delicious fresh roasted punkin seeds, although after all that carving you maybe didn't want to bother (or have the time) with the cleaning and baking.

Hmmm...I'm thinking your plastic walmart tools do definitely outrank my little paring knife that I used last year - it was a rather tedious process, I must say. Perhaps I should "invest" in some proper pumpkin tools!