It's the Great Pumpkin, Carrington Lynn

Each year I enjoy watching Charlie Brown's Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas special on TV. My step dad, Greg, loves The Peanut's so I'm sure it's rubbed off on me. This blog is Charlie Brown inspired but Sims certified.

Tonight the great pumpkin rose out of the pumpkin patch and flew to the Sims' house for the official carving. To kick it off, Carrington wrote a letter last weekend to the Great Pumpkin about the upcoming carving and Halloween night. It said..."Dear Great Pumpkin, I'm looking forward to Halloween night and getting lots of presents." Can you help her? Carrington and Daddy started in the "Great Pumpkin Patch" searching for the "Greatest" pumpkin alive. They didn't have to wait all night to find the Great Pumpkin, it's pretty easy when you only have five to pick from.

We brought the pumpkin inside and set-up the sculpting station. Wait, who are we kidding! There is zero artistic ability between Aaron and I. So, it was more like the pumpkin mutilation station. Aaron sketched out a face on newspaper and then went to work. He carved out the top and I cleaned out the pumpkin. The great pumpkin was suppose to have two eyes, with eyeballs, a nose and a smile with four teeth. As you will see, the knife don't follow on the black lines and we ended up with two eyes, minus the eye balls and a big smile, with four...oh wait, no three teeth. At first, we had a snaggle tooth but it fell off and we were left with only three. Linus said it best..."You didn't tell me you were going to kill it."

Carrington was only slightly amused by the carving and even less amused by having her picture taken with the finished wreck-o-latern. She was about to turn into that scary looking pumpkin because the clock was way best bed time. Aaron said, "you've heard about a woman's scorn, well that's nothing compared to the fury of a woman's scorn who has been cheated out of bed time."

As usual, Aaron and I had more fun than Carrington. Give it a few years and Carrington will be begging for these traditions and Aaron and I will be trying wiggle out of them. For now, we look forward to Halloween night when we take Carrington trick or treating. I don't think we have to worry about her sitting in the Great Pumpkin patch all night waiting for the Great Pumpkin. She has a serious sweet tooth that will motivate her to go door to door; saying, "Trick or Treat". Hopefully she will not get any Rocks!