gourd gala

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I’m not a Halloween person. I think we’ve already established that on my blog. I get into the decorations for fall, and I love black cats (any cat, really) and some of my Halloween decorations that I’ve painted, but I definitely don’t go all out and do the costume and the pumpkin carving or anything else like that.

Until tonight.

The husband and I were invited to the 5th Annual Gourd Gala at Laura’s house. We’ve gone twice before, but this was our first time ever carving a pumpkin (and I have to give the husband full credit for carving – I just helped scoop the pumpkin guts a little bit.) It was very fun, and now we have our first jack-o-lantern sitting on our front porch!

Here are a few (or dozen) pictures from the festivities.

Our finished pumpkin

Pumpkin full-o-soup

View from Laura’s house:

Nine of the carved pumpkins (two of the pumpkins went home early)