The Great Pumpkins

I realized last fall that after five years of dating, and finally being married that Jason and I had never carved pumpkins for Halloween together.  I love Halloween and I have since I was little.  I'm not sure how I gained this love of Halloween because my mom was never a fan of the holiday.  I always had a homemade costume, looking back on it now I'm very glad that I did.  At the time, however, I was very jealous of all the kids that had the store bought costumes while I was wearing a garbage bag shirt, a tin pie plate on my head and green face paint (I was a Grouchketeer, from Sesame Street). 

One of my favorite Halloween memories was of carving pumpkins with my dad.  We would cover the kitchen floor with newspapers and draw our designs on the pumpkins.  Then my dad would bring out his little wooden box filled with wood carving tools and we would get to work on carving out our designs.  We never carved anything elaborate, it was typically just the standard jack-o-lantern, but it was an hour or two of quality time with my dad that I looked forward to every year.

That's why I was so surprised to realize last year that Jason and I had never done this fall task that I had always looked so forward to as a child.  Last year Jason broke out the power tools on his pumpkin and ended up with a pig and I carved a party girl complete with pumpkin gut puke and a lime green wig left over from our wedding photo booth.

This year I decided to go a different route.  To celebrate my new logo I decided on a cupcake theme, and it being Halloween, evil cupcake pumpkin it is.  Jason decided to go a different route too and carved his pumpkin sideways.

Here is my evil cupcake

And here is Jason's sideways pumpkin

Don't they make a cute couple?  My cupcake is supposed to be eating a smaller cupcake but the knife got away from me and it's kind of hard to see what it is.