Last week, my desk was covered with pumpkins.  I had to peek in between a couple of them to see the front door when it opened.  But on Thursday the plan was to take them all off of my desk and bring them upstairs to Dale’s office (aka the rec room because it is so large!) to carve them up!  The plan was to start the party at about 3:30pm to give everyone plenty of time to carve.  Hardcore carvers would use the whole hour and half, and short-and-sweet carvers would have plenty of time to take their pick of locally brewed beer at Dale’s bar.

So it’s 2:30pm and I’m still deciding between carving “Angry Bird” or a character from an internet meme when the office goes dark.  And our UPS’s go crazy – there is obnoxious beeping coming from everywhere.  When the lights didn’t immediately come back on, the upstairs staff came downstairs to start the party!  Looks like we’re carving by candlelight!  No lie – Dale had stocked the entire office with mini flashlights just a few weeks prior, so we used them to their full advantage and found our way to the bar to get drinks.  Then with what little daylight we had (it was rainy and very unsunny outside) and a few lit tealights, we began our carving.

The gang begins the messy process of emptying the pumpkins.

Those are some excellent stabbing skills.

As the self-proclaimed office fashionista, I must point out that I'm wearing an apron over top of my dress.

A totally successful first ever pumpkin carving party at DSI.  Make sure you check out our Facebook page for more pictures.  And try to guess whose pumpkin belongs to who!  We’ll be posting a picture with the whole staff each holding the pumpkins that they carved.

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