Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns!

On Saturday we had our annual pumpkin carving and painting fun! The younger kids paint while the grown-ups (and Adam this year) carve their pumpkins. These are some pumpkins we picked ourselves last weekend from a pumpkin patch!


Here's Anna having a ball painting her pumpkin.


Lizzy with a big grin as she starts painting away!


Adam has been slimed (either that or he just turned into Spiderman!)


My friend and co-worker Rajesh is visiting this month from India. Halloween is not observed much in India (he said he first heard about it reading our blog last fall) so we decided to invite him over for an American cultural experience. This is a shot of his first ever pumpkin carving. Great job!

We also had black bean burritos for dinner (I know -you'd think we could come up with something American to eat considering it was supposed to be an American cultural experience - oh well). He told me later that he learned from dinner that an Indian could live very happily in Mexico. We enjoyed having him in our home!