Pumpkin Carvings - Day 1

Well, that time of year has come to put knife to orangy flesh. It has been a few years since my last pumpkin carving, but I think I did alright. The first one is a penguin family. The second one is a cornucopia. I made a small mistake on that one, but it still looks ok. Sometime this week, I am going to carve an image of Indy into a large pumpkin. It will be interesting to see how that turns out. Rosie has plans to carve a cat and moon image as well. The last image is of the Linux penguin, Tux, that I did a few years back. Post your pumpkins!

Autumn Happenings

Ryan and I have been extremely busy this Autumn. I put away all of our Summer decorations and pulled out our Autumn ones. Its always nice to have Autumn-type things in your house, especially since the leaves don't change here. Ryan bought me a sewing machine, which I am still trying to figure out. I was able to use it to sew a "button hole" which I was pretty impressed with. I am excited to make more projects in the near future.
I have also been very busy with work. I FINALLY finished decorating the library, which is something I love to do. I will have to post some pictures of my library when I get a chance. I am also getting the hang of everything much better now. I am excited because I just got a new computer and printer and will hopefully have internet sometime this week. It will definately make my work a lot easier! The kids are great (mostly), but its hard to keep track of 200 students. It is getting better, though.
Now that Autumn is here, we are also getting ready for Halloween time. This means, of course, that I bought a new bandana for Indy and make him wear it around the house. Here is what he looks like:


Here is Indy wearing my cat costume ears- it took 50 pictures to get this one shot. But he looks sooo cute!
Tomorrow we are going to a pumpkin patch with our friends the Hagens. We are looking forward to picking out pumpkins and carving them. We will have to put up pictures of that later this week.
Hopefully everyone's Autumn is going as well as ours!

Mistakes Were Made

1 home improvement project gone bad.

1 trip to the emergency room.

20 stitches to Phil's forehead.

dolphins, sea turtles, seasickness, oh-my!

This morning Ryan and I woke up at 4:45am for a 7-1/2 hour snorkel tour of the Na Pali coast and Niihau Island. We checked in and hopped, barefoot, on the 60 foot catamaran. As we cruised up the Na Pali Coast, we enjoyed a bumpy breakfast complete with pineapple and tea (perfect for me!). The views were spectacular. We were even fortunate enough to see some dolphin pods and even a sea turtle or two. It was fantastic! Unfortunately the water was very choppy. Not only did poor Ryan get seasick, but we had to head back to port early without having snorkeled. Oh well, it was still a fun day (for me at least!)