Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Carving Pumpkins

Tonight was our annual pumpkin carving night. Each year it is so difficult to decide what our pumpkin will look like. After much deliberation we settled on a leopard gecko this year to honor Geico and Big John! If you are wondering who in the world Geico and Big John are, they are our leopard geckos.

The fun began with my favorite part...PUMPKIN GUTS! The kids are willing to get spoons in there but they will not use their hands. They say it's "GROSS!"


So I decided to chase them with pumpkin guts!



After we got our pumpkin nice and clean dad sketched our gecko and got to work carving.


So what do you think?


Is there a resemblance?


This is Geico. Big John was shedding tonight, he wasn't camera ready :)

3 comments:

Brook said...

Great pumpkin Loraine family!!! I never knew Larry was such an ar-tist! What did Geico think of the pumpkin? :)

ErinL said...

Larry does have some hidden talents! Actually he did sketch it free hand but he had a pattern to work from that we found online. We didn't show Geico the pumpkin. I'm afraid she would have had heart failure!

Unknown said...

Great pumpkin...I am not going to show this to my Matt until after carving time is gone...I don't think I could do that. (OK, I don't want to do it.)
We have a leopard gecko...ours has never shed his skin...what am I doing wrong.
I saw on FB that you had a blog so I came looking. My sister just started a blog too...do you like it better than FB.
Vickie