The finished products.............

Nathan kept saying "happy birthday" when we lit the candles so we welcomed our new Jack'O Lanterns to life by singing "Happy birthday!" Mine is the pirate, Jared's is the "fright this way", Jared L's is the cave-like one, Britt's is the one with braces in the front row (yes, she actually weaved in braces!) , matt's is the witch and Jorji's is the scary face.

The artists.....we were all exhausted at the end and all agreed that being full time artists would be exhausting work. Carving pumpkins was always a big tradition growing up and even now mom usually gets us altogether to carve em' up. I was happy to carry on this tradition at our house this year as mom and dad are still on their cruise and missed the blessed event. I'm sure mom (now in Rome) would be very proud!

The Great Pumkin Carving....

Jorji drawing her face with Nathan eagerly looking on. Nathan was very patient on this night as all the grown-ups and even his playmate Jordan was deep in concentration working on their pumpkins.

The Jared's hard at work...

Britt and Matt. That's right folks, that's Britt with brown hair! I still don't recognize her. She does however look fabulous, the new look somehow makes her look older even...

The finished product! Jordan drew on her face and I cut it out exactly how she drew it. She made a great scary face!

A couple of weeks ago, Jordan had her first primary presentation at church. She sat up at the front with the rest of the primary in front of about 20o-250 people. She memorized her part and said it all by herself into the microphone. She said "Jesus will help me keep the commandments." She even sang a bit during the songs but spent most of the time looking around the crowd and back at the big kids. She was cool as a cucumber up there during her thing and we were so proud of her!
In other Jorji news, her vocab continues to thrive and she continues to say the funniest things, last night she mentioned how Grandma King will be very 'imppressive' with her pumpkin. I started doing a little homeschool with her on days when I'm not working and she loves it! She sits at the table, puts up her hand when she has a question and even calls me Mrs. King! We have lessons on letters, numbers, shapes, seasons, ect.