Carving it Up

The month of October really crept up on me and I just started to get used to the idea of it being October and now its merely a week before its over. So I guess that it is natural for us to start getting into the Halloween spirit. If it wasn't our friends, Jason and Jaclyn throwing a Pumpkin Carving Party yesterday we could have possibly made it through Halloween without doing anything Halloween related. It's not that we don't like Halloween because we do but this year I will be in San Francisco for work and it won't be like last year which was too much fun (I really wish we could do that again this year, maybe next year?) when the family came into town and we all hung out. I am really bummed that I will be missing out on Halloween and the Nevada Day parade.

So yesterday in preparation of the Pumpkin Carving Party we went to Target to get some carving tools and ideas. While there I found some great Halloween Cupcake items and decided that I wanted to make some cupcakes.

The cupcake mix was the Halloween mix with orange and black sprinkles out of the box but I did make the frosting from scratch and dyed it myself. Sometimes I can bring it. Believe me they are as yummy as they look.

In preparation for the Pumpkin Carving Party we were searching for ideas, we are pretty competitive and wanted to bring our A game. I happened to find a pumpking carving book at the grocery store that had very out there crazy ideas for pumpkins and well that is were we got the inspiration for our pumpkin.

First of all we decided to get the biggest pumpkin we could find, this one weighed about 30 lbs and only cost us $5.98 (at Walmart!). We put the beer there so you could see how big it is.


We ate, did a beer tasting (I think this was to handicap all the carvers) and then the carving started. It was a lot of fun with some competitiveness but overall it was just a lot of laughs.


Here is Brett working hard on our prize pumpkin

I promise I did some work as well, I promise.

So here is our completed pumpkin lit up outside.


and with all of the other pumpkins from the night.


We ended up winning "Most Original Pumpkin" for our cannibal pumpkin. Here are some pictures I took later on when we got home since I forgot to take some before we put them oustide last night.


This is the little pumpkin being eaten by the big cannibal pumpkin, the poor little pumpkin was so scared that he puked his guts out.


We had such a good time and were so glad that we were actually able to get into the Halloween spirit if only for one night.