Old School Pumpkin Carvin

Well this is a BIG tradition for Dax and with out Dax here it took some motivation on my part to get the family excited to carve there pumpkins yesterday. It didn't help that Jake suffered what most of his school mates in Pod D suffered Friday. The 24 hour Flu. He was just wiped. Anyway we broke it down into a 2 day affair. Tanner and I gutted while Jake laid and watch. (he was hit bad with this Flu) Tanner did his and The pets pumpkin yesterday, Today Jake and I finished. No fancy templates just free hand carving. Tanner broke our tool yesterday and I managed to only break one knife today. LOL. I am telling you Dax is the season pro, but this is what we came up with...
In the last photo Jake is trying to have the same expression his pumpkin has.. As you can see in the sleeping photo Jakie was wiped out that was where he laid all day Sunday(did i also mention he lost one of his teeth after one of his SICK sessions)He got it buck for that this AM...,
Tanner was a god sport and went to church/confirmation on his own(he got a ride with some friends) he made us a microwave coffee cup cake in class that day. It was so very moist and delicious. In the end of carving we have huge bowel of seeds to bake(my FAVE). (Jake's pumpkin had these big jumbo seeds) i have them soaking in sea salt water bath. i am going to bake half and my neighbor is going to smoke the other half, should be interesting, i have never had them smoked before.. Now Jake is feeling like his old self again, hopefully in time for his game tomorrow.