1. Procrastinate until the night before Halloween and confidently draw out a plan.
2. Just dig in and try to salvage the seeds among the goop- to season and cook in the oven.
3. Get Daddy diggin' in (and Mommy; I will spare the picture of frustration.)
4. Get dazed and confused on the amount of strength it takes to carve.
5. Get Daddy into the carving and have him do all of it.
6. Search all over the house for votive candles. Find none. Then call Nana.
7. Finally light 'em up. Look at them, and say "aaaawww".
8. Then the next day have them frozen solid in the 12-14 inches of snow that falls.
