We take our pumpkin carving very seriously.  So seriously, in fact, that we involve power tools.  John even bought a new drill to make sure the pumpkins turned out just right.  We waited a little late to buy our pumpkins so we couldn't find anything small enough for a repeat cannibal pumpkin.  And no trip to the pumpkin patch either because Saturday soccer, lots of rain and being out of town meant we just couldn't get there.  JGray and Delia designed their own faces, and then they decided that Henry wanted a Mickey Mouse pumpkin.

In past years we have had MAJOR trouble with the neighborhood squirrels destroying our pumpkins.  We had the trees removed in our front yard (storm damage for the pear trees and the gum tree was dying).  Turns out that dying gum tree was the squirrels' home.  No tree = no squirrels = jack-o-lanterns are left alone :)

JGray's super scary pumpkin 

Delia's super happy pumpkin 

Henry's Mickey pumpkin