So last year we had this great idea that we would carve these really intricate jack-o-lanterns. Going with the ever-popular Pirates of the Caribbean theme, we made a Jolly Roger and a Captain Jack Sparrow pumpkin. How naive were we?! It took like 4 hours per pumpkin. And that was with the special tools. We decided to go for something a little bit more traditional this year, and a lot easier. But we were happy with how they turned out. We put them on our front porch on Halloween night and sat out there in our pirate costumes to give candy to the ten kids who streamed, yelling, off the random fire truck that had driven them all over from who knows where to trick-or-treat in our cul-de-sac. Weird.