The Great Pumpkin Smack Down of 2009

In our family we have "The Boys Club" and "The Girls Club" and every year we have a contest to see which club can make the best Jack-o-Lantern. Usually, Brad and I do the more difficult designs and then we let the kids do their own on other sides of the pumpkin, all the while talking smack about which club does the better job and why and how one club doesn't nearly measure up to the other. It is great fun. :)

The Girls Club Jack-o-Lantern

Skull, by Brenda

Ghost, by Jorja

Traditional Jack-o-lantern, by Jillian

The Boys Club Jack-o-Lantern

Halloween-Themed Jack-o-Lantern, by Brad

Monster Face, by Logan

The Girls Club clearly won this year, in both creativity and degree of difficulty, but the Boys Club definitely get points for their creative use of toothpicks.