Pumpkin Carving

So we finally carved our pumpkin this weekend. Sunday afternoon, after my massage from Aileen (THANKS!) we set up at the picnic table to carve our jack-o-lantern. It was a very warm day, we sat at the table, and then Emmalee started screaming and crying and ran to the house. Steve and I look at each other and yell to her to tell us what is wrong. From inside the door she yells back that she had gotten stung by a yellowjacket and was NOT coming back outside. We're thinking - how on earth did she get stung - there are no bees around here. Just as we are telling her to come back outside, we see a yellowjacket walk across the table. I killed it, and then went to check out her elbow, which indeed had gotten stung! After lots and lots of drama, and putting the boo-boo bunny on her arm, we finally got her back outside, and resumed the pumpkin carving. We chose to just carve our big pumpkin, and to let Emmy and Micah each draw a face on one side of the pumpkin. It came out pretty funny. We all learned that I should not be allowed to carve out the faces - I carved out the mouth Emmalee had made, and forgot to cut around the teeth - instead just carving the entire mouth. Steve salvaged it, but she was a bit disappointed. The picture on the right is Micah's side of the pumpkin - I didn't get a picture of Emmalee's side yet.