Pumpkins

So we did a little pumpkin carving last week. It started out as a family gathering and ended with just me Hunter and Morgan finishingup the pumpkin carving a day later.



I found something that makes scooping out the inside of a pumpkin a BREEZE. Use a metal ice cream scoop. They are sharp and just the right shape for scooping. It worked great.

This pumpkin says Hunskiez in case you might be wondering. It's Hunter's new logo for himself.

And Morgan carved the cat pumpkin all by himself. He picked out the pattern and punched it out and then cut it out. I was pretty impressed. I don't think I would have been able to do that when I was 10.

Here is the final product

I found out that once they are carved, pumpkins have a very short and unstable shelf life in a warm house. On Mine ( it's the one that says Casey) The words caved in by the very next morning. And Morgan left the lid on his which grew black mold and lots of it after only 2 days.

When I was coming in from the storage room where I was looking for the paints in my art things for this pumpkin creation, I saw something drop down on the wall.

It was this humongous black widow. Don't worryI killed it first before I picked it up, but even knowing it was dead I was totally creeped out and I have been on spider patrol every minute since then. The thing was HUGE!!!

A FEW THINGS

First...

Morgan got sick the other day(mostly in the head) he had a neck ache and his eyes were hurting AND he was nauseated, but not until after ma'am said " Oh Jana, you need to watch him those are the symptoms for ... Oh what is it?" and I said "Meningitis?" So we looked up the symptoms and then It was time to go pick up Reid & Hunt from work so we left. I was stressed out for the rest of the night until 2:30 in the morning fretting about whether he would be alive in 4 more hours if I just took a little nap. (He is still alive.)

Next... Morgan came to me yesterday saying"Mom do you have anything for itching?" I took a look at the itching places and discovered hives all over his body (Which he apparently got after eating Shrimp so I guess he will have to be like his mom and go without). When Christa came over a little later he trounced up to her and said proudly "I've got hives" her reply was what you'd expect "oh really?" But then later, Reid's response to the same announcement was "Well stay away then" and even later when he tried to get a rise out of Hunter he got "Well get away from me I don't wanna be catching that". I had a bit of a chuckle while explained that you can't "catch" Hives.

Last but not least...
I'm always so impressed each time I see something that a family member has made. Cute children of course are at the top of the list, but I'm not sure you can take credit for that, so sorry.
Mom made that absolutely awesome wreath, Christa made some square beanbag blocks for Bianca ( go ahead,try to say that three times fast.) Check out thepicture above from "Babinski's Baby" to see a version of those same type of blocks, Melinda and Carey made cute bows for their babies and Dan made "sausage fingahs"...

(All thanks for the creative genes go to our Parents and Grandparents of course.)
If I've left anyone out it's because I didn't know you made something so leave me a comment so I can give props where due.

It's fixed!

Yay... It took me forever to figure it out nd I am not exactly sure what it had to do with, but probably the music since it's the only thing that hasn't been added again.
anyway.. hope no one else encounters the issues.

Family Pictures

Another fun weekend...

Alas and alack... it must come to an end. In the words of my young nephew, "Thanks for showing me how to do this. I believe I could play this all night."
And as my young neice said, "I believe I will take my marbles elsewhere".

Reid in 1996 in reply to Hunter complaining about an uncle being "naughty" (ie:mean), "wuz Ee huh bwudder, wuz Ee, wuz Ee? Well, I wiwll go an beat him out to duh snow".

It's always nice to know, if only in passing, a charming human being.

This is the "before the haircut" photo... This is the "after" photo... This is the funniest video! Infact I really had to try not to laugh while I was shooting it!

The End...

My job at the hotel has come to an end. I have to say I was not too happy at first, but I am so relieved (literally) now. I've been reading back over the last year since I got the job and the few times i posted it was all about how hectic and stressful it was. I did love working there at first, but it got to be overwhelming. I'm taking a short much-needed vacation this weekend and then I will look for work next week.

Yay for sisters...

One showed me how to have a cute background so I finally have a cute blog like everyone else.