Pumpkin carvings

This past Saturday we (Daddy) carved the kids pumpkins. He actually went and bought a Dremel pumpkin carving tool. Seemed to make things a lot easier and quicker. K actually helped dig the guts out; C did not "want to touch that stuff." Oh the difference in my kids. I actually tried to toast the pumpkin seeds too. They didn't taste bad but for some reason really upset my stomach. C wanted a football helmet or the NFL logo. He settled for the Colts horseshoe. Simple but I think it turned out really good. K picked Cinderella. I think she's cute. A fun but messy project.

School in the bathroom?

Today proved to be an interesting day. Daddy called me a few minutes after he left work and told me to check the weather. There was a huge storm headed our way; complete with high winds, lots of rain, and possible tornadoes. Great. Once I got up and saw how bad the storms looked, I decided to set up camp in our tornado room--our very small half bathroom downstairs. But I didn't want the kids to start school late. So I decided to have them do school, sitting in the bathroom, waiting the storm out. Of course they thought it was kinda cool. Thankfully, we didn't have to sit in there long--maybe 45 minutes. And thankfully it was all needless work; we are all safe and sound.After the storm was all done (it was lightly raining), I happened to look out the front door. I saw a lady with a long stick and a tub turned upside down--on something. So we went out to investigate. Turns out that she had trapped a snapping turtle. TURNS OUT HE LIVES IN MY POND! She was trying to get him out of the road so no one would approach this mean turtle and come away missing a finger. This lady had caught this same turtle before and knew how mean he was In the end, she took him with her and was going to have her son release him somewhere else so we wouldn't have to worry about him again. Check out the video of him snapping at the stick. Scary stuff.

Collages

Daddy has had so much fun with his new camera lately. He's also had fun with the picture software on his business computer. Here is the end result of all such fun. Good job Daddy!

Pumpkin Cheesecake

And yes, I made it. For those of you who fell on the floor after reading that, you may get up now. I usually don't cook or bake. But I wanted something pumpkin. And this was fairly easy. We ate some before it chilled completely. Definitely needed to chill more. And could use more pumpkin. Not an overly strong pumpkin flavor. But still very yummy! I'm pretty proud of myself.

PS: Must give kudos. I used my sister's recipe.

K's songs

K loves to sing. And she loves to make up songs. Here are 2 videos of her new songs--her debut. The picture quality is horrible: I put the camera on the counter so she hopefully wouldn't know I was taping her. As you can see in the one video, she figured it out. But she sang anyways. The other video is just as much to show off her OCD (all the letters laid out) as it is for her song. Disclaimer: Sorry. These are not yet available on iTunes.