Dork O’Lanterns

We finally got around to carving our pumpkins. Daniel’s schedule has been so crazy that finding a time to choose and carve our yearly squash has been a challenge. If he didn’t care about participating it would have been easier, but he still wants to do these family activities (for which I’m so grateful) and so we worked around his calendar. All the kiddos seem to have caught the dork bug and for once Nathan was the only one who looks fairly normal in his picture. To be fair though, he does look like he is pulling a dorky face behind that pumpkin…

As always, the images carved are definitely not the standard Jack face. Daniel went with the death star, Nathan did the headless horseman, Matthew crafted a Simba design and Malia selected the little mermaid. And then she carved the entire thing all by herself. I think she did a great job. In fact, I think all the kids did a great job.

And to be completely honest, the fact that they are all dorks is really not their fault. After all, they did get the dork gene from both of their parents so I guess it is inevitable that they would choose to let their dork show on a regular basis.