Carving pumpkins

On the Monday before Halloween we carved pumpkins, does anyone else think this is a stressful activity? Max's white shirt is ruined...stained orange pumpkin forever. Seeds ended up everywhere, despite my attempt at keeping them on the cookie sheet- I had the tools the day before and then when we went to carve I couldn't find them so while Mike cleaned out the guts Grace and I ran to Wal-mart to buy new pumpkin carving tools. The kids had fun though, and that's all that matters.

Yes, Max always ends up almost naked.The first pumpkin is the grim reaper and the second is a cat. Not too shabby, considering.