Sewing 101

Well, here's the scenario. Steve has very short legs (ha, ha, hee, hee) and he had seven pairs of dress pants professionally shortened (in Georgia). To put it politely -- whoever did them didn't know what they were doing and all the pants were too long -- so long he was walking on them in the back. Believe it or not, Steve asked me to hem one pair, showing him how to do it and he would hem the rest!!! He wanted to learn how to sew. Soooooo -- with the borrowed sewing machine from our daughter-in-law, Sara (thank you), we started the project.

Here is Steve practicing on some scrap material. You go, Steve . . .
And, as you can see, he's actually sewing on the pants themselves. Great job, Steve

The Puzzlers

Here we have mom (Nita) and Arnie working on a 550 piece puzzle with tiny little pieces. This will be the third one this size they have done. Arn has just discovered that he kinda likes the challenge of puzzles. I'm going to have to buy some more and after the first of the year we are considering everyone working on a 1000 piece one. Wish us luck.

Halloween Cookie Bake

Lucky us!!! We got to have Rylee for two nights this weekend and we had fuuuuuuuun.
Here's great-grandma and Rylee pulling apart the pumpkin cookies to bake. Grandma is lazy and we do the easy bake (no mix) cookies.
Rylee loves to decorate cookies. She loves strawberry (pink) icing and she used all kinds of colored sprinkles. Yuuuum.

The final product!!! Great piles of cookies and we sure did have fun. Thanks Rylee for a great time. And they were delicious.

Oooooey, Gooooey, Spoooky Pumpkins

The day started out bright and sunny. We all met at 1pm and headed off to the famous, local pumpkin patch. We didn't get very far when all the traffic backed up and came to a dead stop. There must have been a mob scene at the pumpkin patch -- soooooo after sitting unpatiently for several minutes we decided to head to the local "market" pumpkin patch. Then the fun began at grandma's. Remember -- you can click on a pic to blow it up if you want to see it bigger.

Here's the ooey, gooey -- but squishy, wishy fun!
Everyone's busy -- we see Rylee, Sara, Cody, Steve and Bryson.
And here's grandma helping by eating peanuts -- again! See her new shirt?

The table is too crowded for "great" artistic work, so Arn took the counter for carving his creation.

Rylee carved her pumpkin, but gets a little help from dad on the tricky eyeballs.

Sara is carvin' the "adult" pumpkin. See final display below.

Rylee and her creation.

Cody and the alien -- cool dude!

Bryson with the scull and cross bones (a very complicated design) -- looks much better all lit up. Great job, Bry.

Taa-Daa!!! The artistic masterpiece. Great delicate work Arn (and the beer helped steady his hand, I'm sure).

Steve did a fantastic job with spooky cat heads. There are a total of three on this creation.

Post-carving party. We always know how to gather and have a good time.

The gallery!!! The end carving is a very sick pumpkin cuz he drank too much. What can I say???

Ooooooooooooh, awwwwwwwwwww -- how pretty. Good job to everyone.