{"id":2707,"date":"2013-10-29T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2013-11-03T21:54:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T02:54:54","slug":"pumpkin-carving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/10\/pumpkin-carving-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Carving Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Better late than never, right?<\/p>\n

Timmy and I enjoyed carving our four pumpkins this afternoon. I’m so proud of Timmy, this year he offered to do\u00a0everything<\/em> but got really nervous about gutting the pumpkins. So I did it for him…because I’m a sucker for that stuff.<\/p>\n

\"Cutting<\/a>

Cutting out his Nyan Cat.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The finished Nyan Cat.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"He<\/a>

He did everything except for the gutting of the pumpkin. He looked so squeamish I felt sorry for him and took over.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"After<\/a>

After carving the pumpkins, we moved outside to plant some flowers in two of them.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I'm<\/a>

I’m so proud of Timmy!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Do<\/a>

Do you like the jack o’ lantern yakking up the flower?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My<\/a>

My contribution, I used a stencil from an Angry Birds pumpkin carving kit. It comes with a fantastic fine-pattern cutting tool.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better late than never, right? Timmy and I enjoyed carving our four pumpkins this afternoon. I’m so proud of Timmy, this year he offered to do\u00a0everything but got really nervous about gutting the pumpkins. So I did it for him…because I’m a sucker for that stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,54,85,442],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-HF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2598,"url":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/09\/colorado-discoveries-12-colorado-springs-pioneer-museum.html","url_meta":{"origin":2707,"position":0},"title":"Colorado Discoveries 12: The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum","date":"27 September 13","format":false,"excerpt":"For a Cub Scout field trip, in mid-September our family visited the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum in the heart of downtown. 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