Pumpkin Patch Pickin'

Last night we were able to go to a pumpkin patch with all of our awesome friends!  It was so fun!  I can't even remember the last time I went to an actual pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpkin.  I ended up picking like five or six pumpkins...oops.  In the end I just go three.  One to carve and two to paint.  I'm trying to be crafty nowdays!!

Isn't my husband one hunk of hunkiness?!

None of us had stuff to carve pumpkins with so we went to Walmart and then went to the other Smith's to carve and paint!  Tess and I went the artsy fartsy way while the guys and Caroline carved.  Granted, I did hollow out the guts of ours.  Nate just carved one pumpkin since space was limited.  We have another bigger pumpkin to still carve! 

Ours looks pretty good all lit up!

Pumpkin Carving

We've been pretty bad about having actual FHE but on Monday we actually had a real one!  We took a little trip to the store (we aren't quite cool enough to go to the pumpkin patch yet) and picked out the perfect pumpkin.  Actually, I picked it out all by myself.  It was the first one I laid eyes on.  We both knew if we tried to pick one out together it would take years.

While the picking was easy, it was not so easy to decide what to carve on it.  A face?  Ghosts?  Witches?  We decided (after quite a while...) on a haunted house.

Two weeks ago we watched some extreme pumpkin carving competition and all the competitors carved the pumpkin from either the back or the bottom...not the top!  We figured if it was good enough for professionals, it was good enough for us.  Nate took the bottom off, I scraped out the innards, and he did the carving while I picked out seeds and baked them.

Like the Christmas lights we shoved on the inside??