It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Look! It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I don't think so. I think if Linus saw this pumpkin coming out of the pumpkin patch, it would of scared the holy crap out of him. Instead of delivering presents to good boys and girls this pumpkin is more than likely to be eating little boys and girls. Hunky J, my hubby, is the artist of this masterpiece. I bailed last minute to continue preparations for this year's Halloween Zombie fest at our house. Kind of crazy this year b/c we had our Halloween party after Halloween.

I would definitely say our pumpkins have come a long way from the first ones we carved when we first moved here. I thought we would be real ambitious, so I bought 4 pumpkins one for each of us. I thought this would be a great family activity. Yeah right! So after a lot of complaining and hair pulling we managed to get four pumpkins up and ready. We displayed them on our mini-patio that was attached to our apartment. The first thing we learned about carving pumpkins in Arizona, is not to carve them too early. Between the cool evenings and the scorching hot afternoons, our pumpkins mutated into mush. That would all be fine and dandy, kind of adds to the horror of it all with the exception of the bad smell that came along with it. Well, we skipped a few years after that. I think we all were a bit traumatized after the whole experience. We've decided to work as a team and if the kids don't want to participate, we don't hold them hostage. It's more peaceful that way.