getting ready for tonight

for a few days now, we have been talking about carving the "raebe" for the parade tonight. we will be participating in thea's kindergarten parade tonight. so the raebe had to be hollowed and carved and that we did yesterday afternoon. the girls were all into it and we had a good time together.
the carvings were given to the chickens, they loved it a lot and we kept some carvings for today and tomorrow, as it would just have been too much for their tummies to digest.
i was so glad we could do the main carving out of doors, though it ended up not being too messy, the air hasn't been too cold so we did it on the front steps and loved it. and a bit later when it got dark we took the raebe indoors to do the decorating carving, we will be putting in the candles tonight just as we head out for the parade.....

i'm sure there will be some pics to come.