Our Annual Pumpkin Carving Night

Some years we host a party with friends and some years we simply have a family night, but we always have a pumpkin carving night at the end of October. Its just one of our traditions. This year it was a family night that included my parents and sister.

We almost always have the same menu each year, too, but whatever the menu is it always includes white chili. Tonight's menu was:

Bread Pot Fondue
with Spicy Saltines Roasted Pumpkin Seeds White Chili Cornbreadand
Butter Cookies

Boy, was it yummy! I'll have to share that Bread Pot Fondue with Spicy Saltines with you soon. And maybe the Butter Cookies, too. Those are one of my all-time fave cookies.

After the food, we got down to business with the carving.

The Princess with Aunt Kari

Mr. B and Vince

Nana and Papi chilled out with *It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown*. Bless their hearts, they just got home today from an almost-24-hour trip back home from Alaska. They were a little tired, to say the least.

And without further ado, here are our family pumpkins for 2009:

Vince's *Toothy Guy*:

My *Mickey Mouse*:

The Princess' *Pumpkin Snowman Stack*:

Mr. B's *Fib*(as in Larry-Boy and the Fib From Outer Space:)

How about you and your family? Do you enjoy carving pumpkins? Leave me a comment!

This post is linked to Show and Tell at My Romantic Home.

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