pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns

Mikey and Mabin entered a contest for what design would be carved into a pumpkin at the Keizer library Halloween Festival. 

Their Harry Potter design won. 

I've never been so proud. 

(I believe I was busy getting (probably eating) some delicious cookies while they were drawing their sketch.) 

One Family Home Evening was spent at the pumpkin patch. 

This little piggy was so friendly. She came right up and promptly fell asleep to me scratching her ears. 

Mabin's favorite pumpkins were the ones with long stems. 

"Where did Daddy go?"

Another Family Home Evening spent carving the pumpkin into a Jack-o'-Lantern. 

Mikey's cannibal. 

Mabin loved the candle inside and kept asking where it went when we blew it out. 

Watching the candle the second night we lit it for him.