Sarah Viera Event Planning & Design: Halloween Pumpkin Carving| Colorado Springs Event Planner

My daughter looks exactly like my husband, but I am happy to report that she acts just like me at times! Most people that know me say she looks just like me and I laugh knowing full well they just haven't met my husband yet. We took family pictures a few weeks ago with Amanda Lamb Photography and those individuals that said my daughter looks like me have now retracted their comments!

So while she may look exactly like my husband and sometimes acts like him in those obnoxious ways, she does have a few traits of her Mama! I will admit that I am a little OCD when it comes to my home, germs, and cleanliness. Having a mother with OCD tendencies is never fun for a child, especially when it comes to crafts.
I have never been a fan of Halloween even as a child. My best friend always had the best costumes made by family members or someone she knew while I just borrowed her costume from the previous year. But having a daughter now I have to get in the spirit so she doesn't grow up disliking something like me for no reason! But with the idea of getting in the spirit comes carving pumpkins. The thought of my hands and arms getting dirty while I pull out the pumpkin guts makes me shiver! So I have always tried to find fun and unique ways to decorate the pumpkins without getting dirty. One year we painted them, the next year we glued silly things on them and this year I put Halloween inspired decals on them.

While I think this is fun, clean and enjoyable no one else does. One year we had friends over so the girls could decorate pumpkins. When I pulled out all the decorations for the girls to glue on their pumpkins , my friend said "this is a typical Sarah Viera craft!" So this year while I still did my clean decal craft, I did take Natali to Wishing Star Farm to play, feed animals and get some pumpkins to actually carve.

When we got home Natali was ecstatic to carve her pumpkins. This would be the first time she actually carves one. (And yes, she is 7! Like I said I have issues with a mess!) Her excitement went from a 10 down to a 4 after we cut a circle in the top and asked her to pull out the pumpkin guts! She said "Ewwww I'm not doing that, it's slimy". We of course made her do it so she could have the full experience of pumpkin carving. With each handful, or rather each pinch, she pulled out she proceeded to get a paper towel and wipe off her hands and then reach in for another handful of guts and another paper towel. Inside I was jumping with joy knowing that Natali was just like me...she hated this mess!