Pumpkin Carving and Going Green!

On Sunday afternoon, we had my folks over for some pumpkin carving, bbq ribs, and of course Lilly time. My mom had gotten a pumpkin at Lowe's foods, while ours was from a pumpkin farm (and as I mentioned before Fitz wanted the wartie pumpkin). So when the carving started, we soon realized the wartie pumpkin has much thicker then the store bought (more traditional looking pumpkin). So as my Dad easily carved, cored, and carved some more....Fitz has to resort to more aggressive means of carving....in come the electric jig-saw. I managed to get some footage on video, and I'll try to up load it. But the short version is that when knives don't work....bring out the power tools. From the pumpkin we made sweet and salty pumpkin seeds and baby food and cookies from the pumpkin meat. Then the remainder of the pumpkin went to the compose for our garden next spring. The seeds were consumed very quickly and the cookies did not last two days. The jack-o-lanterns are on their way over to my folks house for Halloween as we will be visiting friends as we drive all over the state on our way to Asheville.

In other news, as of yesterday, our kick ball team is tied for 1st place with 3 other teams with 2 games remaining. Then we found out the playoffs are going to be played over a tues/thurs pair in the coming weeks. Lilly is recovering from a cold, and a flu shot. She is very active and is starting to realize that she will be moving soon and often gets annoyed when she can't do what she wants. Last night, while taking a bath, she pulled herself to standing and then did not know what to do so she sat back down. Glad we are in full swing of baby proofing the house?! Won't be long now!