PUMPKIN CARVING- OUR FAVORITE CRAFTING TRADITION!

Recently Steve found a great farmers market in Cedar City which has supplied us with wonderful vegetables and honey!!  One day while stopping for some tomatoes for salsa, he found this monster pumpkin and was charged $10.00 for it.  Steve knew it was a good deal, but it wasn't until we visited Vernal to see Britt and Stew that we realized how good the deal was.  A store we visited had a large (but smaller) pumpkin with a sign on it for $89.99!!  We now refer to it as "the treasure".

So got our our widdling knives and spoons and spooky patterns and carved til we couldn't hold the knives any longer!!  WE put 6 cool carvings into the space and it looks amazing!!  Then we ate some cake balls that Brooke whipped up and had a wonderful time.

Now that my kids are older I have less say in the dangers they engage in.  Here is a fun game we call sword piercing:  mix in the dark starlit night, a wobbly sword-made for wall hanging, and a fast pitched pumpkin piece- and anything can happen!!  I envisioned someone getting empaled with the separation of hilt and blade, but we ran out of chuncks so soon, that danger was averted.  Although I can usually hit a moving target with a bat, I never got a solid hit-I did however see some nice shavings fly off to the right on a slice or two!  All safe and sound, and eager to set it ablaze on Halloween night :)

7th Grade Border League Volleyball

 

Here are the eleven girls on our 7th grade team, all nice fun girls. They get along great and are working to learn the game.  Most of them started playing this year! I got a call on Sunday from a team in Enterprise that we play against, they have invited our girls to dinner following the tournament there this coming Saturday.  That's a credit to the girls on the Enterprise team and to our girls for crossing the lines of competition and making new friends that they could just as easily have snubbed off.  If we can teach these girls to play hard, be tough but friendly and play together, I'll feel it was a success!!-  Cute though aren't they?

                      Favorite cheer:  "TIGERS!!! (clap clap/stomp-) BAM!!!" As loud as possible~

 People from other teams come to tell us these girls play well together and look the most poised of the     teams their age, now if we could get that winning fight to matter when they are tired.........