Pumpkin Carving

Every year my Grandma and Grandpa Forbush have a pumpkin carving contest with my dad's side of the family. They have been doing it since I was one. My Grandma Forbush has started a lot of fun traditions for our family. This one, imparticular, has been a favorite of all of us. When we first get there we all pick out our pumpkins that Grandma and Grandpa have provided for us. Then we grab our carving utensils and get started! We usually spend about two hours perfecting our pumpkin master pieces then we head inside for some of Grandma's bEEf stEw. She's so cute because she will always have fun finger foods that are perfect for Halloween. She'll make piGs-in-A-blanKet that look like fingers, cottage cheese with drips of red dye, or gummy worm jello. After we all get done eating we head back upstairs to do the prizes! Grandma brings out her big bin full of prizes and has each of us show her our pumpkin so she can give us the appropriate prize. She'll give you a prize that matches what she thinks your pumpkin is expressing. Like she'll say, "You're pumpkin is the nuttiest" and give us a nutrageous. We're not done yet! My Grandma and Grandpa lived in the same house since before I was born. They had a flat roof that was a perfect width across to fit all of our pumpkins across. Grandpa would put all our pumpkins up there with a light inside each of them and we'd all watch each of our pumpkins cOmE tO lifE. They would leave them out for the whole week before Halloween. It's made us a very popular family. We have been in the newspaper three times! Well, unfortunatley my grandparents moved about three years ago into a house that has a slanted roof. It's too slanted to put any pumpkins on it. Instead of putting them on the roof they have shelves that they put in front of there house to set all of our pumpkins on. They still light up each of them. It's not quite the same, but we'll take what we can get. :-) Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Forbush for making such a fun Halloween tradition for us!

Landon's pumpkin:front Mine:Back

Carving fun with Dad