Pumpkins!

The other day we carved our pumpkins. Ryan, Adam and I had never used those template things or the fancy tools before. We used to just hack them up with knives. So this was an experience. I wish I had a photo to show you of Steve begging for scraps of pumpkin. He loved it. Ryan's is the aliens (he says they're dolls, but I'm calling them aliens). Mine is the haunted house and Adam's is the crow. Adam's is my favorite. They're kinda getting a little shrivel-y so I hope they will last, but they were fun to do either way.

Ding Dong Jerk Returns

Wow I had a horrible sleep last night. I feel asleep first on the couch where I woke up all stiff and yucky. Then moved to the bedroom where I woke up at 2:30 because Ryan had left Steve outside for several hours. He had just come back in and was all happy and excited. So then, at 3:45 the doorbell rings, again. Ryan and Adam both said they didn't hear it. I wanted to call the police, and would have if one more person heard it, but I didn't want to be the crazy person. So anyhow, Steve went outside and barked a bunch. He didn't want to go out because I think he was afraid he'd be locked out there again. But he was my little defender. Adam checked out the front street (Steve actually ran downstairs and woke him up). He said there was a car hovering in the middle of the street a bit of the way down. On hindsight, I probably should have called the police, it looks like we now have a harasser. But I was tired and not thinking straight. Now I have to go to school, give a presentation and wander through the woods. Lucky me.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey Dinner today at Junie's house. This was only the second turkey I have ever made, and I must confess I didn't make very much of this one. I could definitely have been called "assistant chef". Dinner was extremely excellent. I haven't experienced too many small Thanksgiving dinners, but this was nice. Just June, Brian, me and Adam. I really wish Ryan was here, but I understand. We'll need to do a small something in a few days when he comes home.

We somehow didn't get any shots of people, just the food. Those sneaky sneakers didn't remind me to take photos of other things. These are my top 3 food photos though. Again, a little unhappy with the indoor quality of my camera (I really need to learn to use that damn thing), but they're still pretty nice.

Scrapbook and Cards Sketch....

Scrapbook and Cards Today is a free magazine, and June pointed out this sketch in it for us to try. So we each did our own version of the layout. Mine is below. I had these photos of me and I liked them, but didn't know what to do with it. It's kind of sort of a me page I guess. I think they are important to do every one and a while. I take a lot of the photos, I'm trying to be in front of the camera a bit more. I finally used up that Making Memories artisan shaped paper. I think I have one more sheet still, but I had tried to use it so many times. Just happy it eventually worked. I like how this turned out, I wish my journaling was a bit more inspirational to go with the quote, but oh well.This photo is hilarious to me. We tried to take a self portrait with the zoom in just a bit too much. This photo is the background on my computer. I just think it's cute. I used Kelli Pannaci's new line and took inspiration from a sheet of the paper. The describing words she had didn't quite work for us, so I'll use the backside of that paper on another layout. I created my own words with some awesome new letters from Basic Grey. The black words are describing Ryan and the brown for me.