Pumpkin Carving with adopted students :)

We have an 'adopt a student' program at church where you can sign up to be a family for a student or two :)  We offered to have 2 students and we were blessed with Minyona Mason and Karen Li.  Both from Chicago and both SWEET and CARING and KIND and listen to this - LOVE KIDS....!  Phew.....

So we had them over last night for the first time and we carved pumpkins and ate enchilada's together as a family!  I cant express to you how much fun this was!  These girls are amazing...!  They have so much patience with our kids and they care about them....and they even stuck their hands into gooey pumpkins to gut them AND got Cailer to do it as well!! (he was completely grossed out BUT it become a competition to see who could get their pumpkin cleaned out first!)  

Here are some pics from our fun evening!

 Jaci at the Pumpkin Patch picking out the pumpkins!  She was loving it.  I kept saying 'eek be careful'....I thought she was going to drop one and it would squash...

 Diva Jaci in the pumpkin patch...

 Washing the Pumpkins and getting ready to start carving

 Big Sister....Little Sister!  Karen and Jaci 

 Minyona's first attempt at cutting off the stem.....Neal ended up doing it for everyone cause it was so much harder then it looked :)

 Cailer getting ready to pull out the guck...he was not excited about this!!

 Everyone carving away :)

 Karen free-handing her spider - it was so cool!

 Big Sister - Little Brother - Minyona and Cailer

 All our kiddo's - Karen, Brock, Jaci, Cailer & Minyona

 Minyona's amazing bat and pumpkin carving.  Look the eyes ended up being straight...hah!!

 Karens sweet spider

Brocks Bat

Jaci's Smiling Pumpkin Face.  She spent the next 30 minutes painting it all over!

 Cailers Ghost

The whole family and the created pumpkins!