Pumpkin Carving 2007

It's pumpkin carving time again, and this year several of the kids wanted pumpkins carved in their likeness. It's not an easy process, and not one the younger kids can even do. So, Mom got busy on the computer and then at the pumpkin carving table.

I started with this photo of Ben. I tweaked it in Paint Shop Pro, and came up with a pattern.



The resulting carved up pumpkin looked like this. Not bad, but wait until the lights go out.






Pretty cool, huh? I have made a pattern of George Bush, but I don't know if I'm going to get to it. I still have 2 kids left to do.

Autumn in the Canyon

For Family Home Evening this week, we took a trip up a local canyon to look at the fall colors. We were afraid we were too late to see much, but we were pleasantly surprised at how very beautiful it was.


We had a storm come through a few days ago, and it left some snow on the ground up here. You really can't see it in the pictures, but there was snow on the ground!



Isn't God an amazing artist?







Here are the kids posing for a picture. They're cold, and want to get back into the warm car. They really enjoyed the outing, though. There were cattle all over the place, and they were pointing them out all the way up and down the canyon.