This celebration night was our annual pumpkin carving event! We were all assigned teams of people to work with and planned our designs ahead of time. Then, we grouped together, put our designs on our pumpkins, and started carving.

For those too young to wield a knife or carving utensil, we set up a place to paint pumpkins instead. With glitter and lots of paint, they came up with some rather colorful pumpkins.

After painstakingly drawing and carving our pumpkin patterns into our pumpkins, we lathered the insides with vaseline to keep them from drying out. We placed them all in a row, lit the candles, and turned out the lights. The themes were very diverse and creative this year, ranging from Star Trek aliens to cannibal pumpkins. There was also a gecko, an owl, Snoopy, Scooby Doo, and the Nintendo characters Samus Aran and Link.