Halloween 2009

Scott ended up working for Halloween and so his sister Jamie talked me into going down to Montpelier to hang out with them. She put on a theme dinner. It was fun. Later that night we went over to the church and did the trunk or treat with the kids.

 Our dinner feast.  It was really good.  I was a little bit grossed out with the pork coming out of the pumpkins mouth but it was all really good.  The eyeballs especially.

 Jello brain, shredded pork out of the pumpkin, ice cubes with spiders in them, green rolls, potato salad, green slim dip for the apples, and dessert eyeballs.

 Here are the pictures of the kids. I took them so Scott could see what all the 

kids were dressed up like.

 It was definitely fun having something to do while Scott was at work.  I was so happy that Jamie invited me and I took the plunge and went.

Pumpkin Carving

Okay so this year in our garden we decided to grow some pumpkins. We were really excited because at one point we had 12 pumpkins growing. Unfortunately somehow our plant ended up dying and so some of the pumpkins went bad. We ended up with only these five pumpkins. We actually gave my brother three of them for his girls.
Scott and I decided we would carve the other two pumkins for ourselves. I hate to admit this but I have only carved pumpkins maybe one other time in my life. I've watched it done lots more than that but I don't know if I've ever really done one myself. So I started off by making an ameteur's mistake and didn't even cut the hole in the top big enough to dig out all of the guts. I had to find a spoon that was big enough to get them out. Scott laughed at me. Oh well what can I say.

Scott taking out the guts of his pumpkin

Okay so now its my turn to try and get out all the nasty stuff out of my pumpkin. Had to get the longest spoon that we had in the house in order to do it.

Scott's on the left and Mine on the right.

It's Susan's Happy Face. I don't know could use a little more experience at this.

I love the nose on Scott's pumpkin.

Technology Overload

So this last month has been rough for me with technology. I use to think I was keeping up with technology but after this month I think I'm technology challenge. At work they have decided to add Google Apps to our new Bengal Web. The biggest change will be that they are changing out our e-mail to g-mail and we have to figure out how to either use it or be left behind. I like several things about g-mail but our training really couldn't be considered training because all they did was shows us the capabilities of Google Apps. My biggest complaint is I really don't have time to learn something new. I am also the one that is supposed to show everyone in our department how to use it. Oh well I really don't have a choice so here we go.

Here at home Scott has gone on a technology binge. He bought us new I-Pods Nano's last month. The only thing I have learned so far is how to turn it on and how to download our CD's to it. Scott was asking me about why I didn't have the songs all coming on at the same volume level and I told him I had no idea what he was talking about. He just shook his head at me. He likes to sit and piddle with his but I pretty much just steal his songs that he downloads and then when I'm going on a road trip I take my I-Pod with me. So here is my purple ipod and Scott got a silver one. He definitely uses his more than mine. Hopefully since I'm working out again I will use it more.

Then two days ago he went and bought us new cellphones because we were due for an upgrade. So he went in and bought both of us the HTC Fuze. It's got some really cool features and we bought this phone because Primerica is using it to do our paperless applications. He did lots of research and the AT&T sales people tried to talk him out of it. They gave us several websites to look at reviews about the phones and he decided that the phones would work great for what we wanted. We wanted business phones with business applications on it vs. a phone that would end up being an expensive toy. (They say it's not good for games, MP3 playing, etc.) So I've figured out how to make a phone call on it and that's about it. I tried to get onto the internet but I couldn't read a thing on the page. Scott says that you can make it bigger but we are both learning. Unfortunately they don't give you a how to booklet, you have to read the online tutorial. Hopefully I'll find time to figure it out. ARGH to much new stuff coming out all at the same time.

This is in the closed position. The screen is a touch screen so that's cool. I'm getting used to it.

This is the open position. I love having a keyboard. I get to type text messages alot faster. No more having to hit a key four times to get to the right letter. It's also cool because the screen switches to landscape from portrait automatically.

Garden Update

So I thought I would give an update about our garden. So this is all the carrots that came out of our garden. They actually all grew very good. The bummer part about all of this is that they tasted like lead and weren't good so we had to throw them all out.
This was our biggest carrot. It was crazy looking but it was huge. Scott and I wondered if we could have entered it in the fair. I'm sure the fair only takes nice looking normal carrots. Oh well it's pretty funny looking and we gave us a good laugh about it.