Pumpkin carving

We were asked to bring a carved pumpkin to the Ellen Eccles theater to decorate the entryway for the Wicked Jig on Saturday.  Today we bought our pumpkin and carved it.  It was a MONSTER of a pumpkin.  My little carving knife was long enough to cut through the thick pulp.  Oh well.  The pumpkin was supposed to say Velcome, but the "L" fell off, so it says Vecome.  Oops.  Connor was all excited to gut the pumpkin this year.  When it came down to it, he decided it still wasn't for him.  He did a great job outlining the design onto the pumpkin.  Isaac and Kiley had a blast gutting the pumpkin.  I saved the seeds and roasted them.  They turned out pretty good, not my best batch, but still good.  I carved the pumpkin with the too short carving kit saw.  I ended up using a longer kitchen knife to take out the parts that needed to come out, that's how the "L" fell out.  It still ended up looking pretty cool.