I love dying Easter eggs with my kids. Now that they’re older it’s more fun, actually. It’s become a family tradition (I hope) of having fun, hanging out, being creative together.
I used to only dye my eggs one color. Never thought out of the box. My kids are out of the box thinkers and my, my, my how high and colorful their thoughts fly!
My children are my masterpiece. My children teach me in every way. My children are artist and canvas. My children open my eyes to a brave new world of possibility. My children are me loved into reality.
My oldest daughter and her boyfriend brought over 4 pumpkins on Halloween night. As always, they were running a bit late, so we decided to carve them up the next evening. Everyone went trick or treating while I sat outside giving out halloween candy while the mosquitoes munched on me.
The next night they came over again and we searched the internet for stencils, printed them out and got to work. Cleaning out the insides was really messy. We saved all the seeds to bake later. Pumpkin seeds are supposed to be really good for you.
We used a pumpkin carving knife set to start and added a few weird instruments from the kitchen, like an ice pick and a nut thing-a-ma-diddy that helped. It’s HARD to carve those gourds!
But, I believe we did some excellent pumpkin carvings and I wanted to share them.
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*Lulu before the pumpkins were carved. She loved them for some reason and was rolling around them, marking her territory of kitty love.
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*Working on the pumpkins.
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*Carved pumpkins!!! From left to right: an Alien (mine) a Bunny (Abby & Jacob’s) a Jack-O-Lantern Face (Chloe’s) and the last one is supposed to be Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead (Nick’s)
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