Before we could meet up with Cevonne, JT and the family we had to eat. We drove to Fredericksburg. A little tourist town in the middle of nowhere.

Wednesday Our Halloween festivities started with our annual pumpkin carving party with Cevonne and Jose. Of course it has to be done with Skype. I really wish they would move back already. This year I attempted to make a cyclops, but it turns out that a pumpkin-cyclops just looks like a gourd with two strange eyes. Meadow painted hers blue marble. It was "going to be beautiful". I guess my pumpkin won this year. Meadow was a little afraid of our pumpkins once they were lit up. We had photos from a Armatage Park Halloween Party and Eleanor's Birthday party, but Scott lost the memory card... Life happens. Sunday For the first time in forever I made Sunday breakfast. Kaiserschmarrn it was. We really had no plans until later in the day. I wanted to get some yarn for a new project. We drove down to Linden Hills to check out the almost-closed Needlework Unlimited. So, many yarn stores have closed since I moved here. Most ...

We were going to skip carving pumpkins this year until a few days before Halloween when Cevonne asked if we wanted to do it together via Skype. We've been doing this for years with the Torres's. It's great to keep the tradition alive even after they've moved to Austin, Texas. I got some inspiration from a few drilled pumpkins I'd been seeing around. I ran with that. I had a pretty good idea for mine until I got out our carving tools and noticed it came with a template book. I felt a little bad cheating this year. Tsk, tsk. We caught up while they finished carving their's. Scott caved in and turned the heat on the other day. It did dip down to the 30's but it's supposed to warm back up to the 60's. Didn't quite make it to Halloween this year. I requested aebelskivers for breakfast. We hadn't made them in a long time. I found a variant that used whipped egg whites. This really made these better than simp...