PUMPKIN CARVING- OUR FAVORITE CRAFTING TRADITION!

Recently Steve found a great farmers market in Cedar City which has supplied us with wonderful vegetables and honey!!  One day while stopping for some tomatoes for salsa, he found this monster pumpkin and was charged $10.00 for it.  Steve knew it was a good deal, but it wasn't until we visited Vernal to see Britt and Stew that we realized how good the deal was.  A store we visited had a large (but smaller) pumpkin with a sign on it for $89.99!!  We now refer to it as "the treasure".

So got our our widdling knives and spoons and spooky patterns and carved til we couldn't hold the knives any longer!!  WE put 6 cool carvings into the space and it looks amazing!!  Then we ate some cake balls that Brooke whipped up and had a wonderful time.

Now that my kids are older I have less say in the dangers they engage in.  Here is a fun game we call sword piercing:  mix in the dark starlit night, a wobbly sword-made for wall hanging, and a fast pitched pumpkin piece- and anything can happen!!  I envisioned someone getting empaled with the separation of hilt and blade, but we ran out of chuncks so soon, that danger was averted.  Although I can usually hit a moving target with a bat, I never got a solid hit-I did however see some nice shavings fly off to the right on a slice or two!  All safe and sound, and eager to set it ablaze on Halloween night :)