And the winner is...

Yes, I know.  This is SUPER late, but better late than never, right?

If you remember back here the boy and I went to a pumpkin patch in search for the perfect pumpkin to carve.  We had a bet to see who had the best carving skilz.

My pumpkin is on the left (it was HUGE and super heavy).  Hep's is on the right.  It looks big but it was more on the tall and skinny side.

Hep hard at work.

I have to be honest.  I had never in my life carved a pumpkin before this night.  Growing up my Dad did all the work while we sat back and "ooohed and aaahed".  I had no clue how hard it is to get all of the guts out of those things!  Hep on the other hand is a pro and was kind enough to give me some pointers.  It took me twice as long to finish but I am very proud of finished product!

I went for a spider design.  My Mom is a teacher and growing up Halloween was her favorite holiday.  All of her kids used to call her Mrs. Spiders so spider decorations became big around this time of year in my family.

Hep decided to challenge himself a bit more and went with a spooky grave yard scene.

  

 The finished products.

For some reason Hep's candle wasn't very bright.

 To be fair, I think Hep won this round, but I think I did a pretty good job too!  Next year we'll have to rematch! 

After a long night of carving I whipped up a batch of jack-o-lantern cupcakes for Hep to take to his guys at work.  I don't know what happened to my decorating skills, these didn't look so ghetto when I was younger! 

The next day while Hep was at work I had the great idea to carve two more pumpkins.  I wanted to make one with a Texan's logo and one with a Bronco's logo.  Not too shabby for my first year!