Trick or Drink

Mom and I went with drink:

Fall Family Craft Fillozes Day O'Fun

First - woah - that is one big dog butt!!  I didn't realize that it would be so big when posting from my iphone.  Hopefully, it'll make for some good vacation photos soon.

Ok - on to Fall Family Craft Fillozes Day O'Fun.  I made a quick trip home about a month ago to surprise both my gma and my dad and for a day filled with fun.

First up was making Portuguese donuts.  Let's just say, I messed up the recipe, but we ended up saving it. No it was not as good as the one's grandma makes, but they still ended up pretty good.  Part of the trouble, as grandma said was there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

Colby mixing our batter.  Whip it, whip it good!

Our recent college grad, making donuts as you can see is very serious business.  So is the fear of burning yourself with hot oil!

A gooey one, just the way Aunt Ed likes them.  But...since she was too cool for Fall Family Craft Fillozes Day O'Fun and instead as at Disneyland, I ate the gooey donut instead.  Yum!

I will admit - Colby is the best donut maker in the family, after grandma that is!

Here you see a master at work, spreading out the dough so nicely.

mmm....mmmm....mmmm... good

 Next up - Fall craft - 5 minute pumpkins, NOT, more like 30 minute pumpkins.

My mom found a tutorial online for these quick and easy pumpkins. Well let's just say they weren't as easy as the blogger made it sound.  But...we put our heads together and found a way to make it work, as you can see below:

Cute!

Butt Curls!

Lazy dog. I'm posting this from my phone so we'll see how it works out. This is a practice post I'm hoping it works because I have vacation coming up & want to share pics as I go!

The Desert Museum

A few weeks ago, after living in Tucson for over a year, I finally made a trip to the Sonoran Desert Museum.

Here is what I saw:

There are many, many, many different types of rattlesnakes.

Another rattler.  I didn't take pictures of the tarantulas, scorpions, giant bugs, etc.  

There were other nice animals like hummingbirds - which moved too fast for me to capture on camera.

Beautiful Desert-scape.

My favorite exhibit - the prairie dogs!

They are so cute how they eat dead grass with their little hands.  

nibble, nibble, nibble

And for my mom - A quail - one of her favorite birds, with the little boppers on their heads!

90 degree fall

Sorry, I disappeared for the last month.  My reason is working 12hr + days 6 days per week x 4 weeks - with one quick trip home.  That equals one tired girl and very little time for blogging.

On my day off today, I went to a pumpkin patch just outside of Tucson with Sarah, BJ, and her 2 kids. Fun pics below.  And yes it was 90 degrees outside.  I was sweating!  Gross.  Not fall like at all!

Farm fun.  This is before we made our way through the corn maze!

Braxton with his perfect pumpkin.  You can't see it, but the back is all wrinkly!

Through the pumpkin patch.  I can't remember the last time I went to a pumpkin patch, but I don't remember it being this brown.  

Sarah, Braxton, Annaliese and me with our lovely pumpkins!

YaY Fall!

The ugliest mitten in the world :)

As you know, I was bored to the point of doing puzzles.  Which actually ended up being a lot of fun.
But after 3 puzzles, it was time to find a new hobby for now.

So I decided that I would learn to knit.  I know how to crochet and once knew how to knit as a little girl.  My Popo taught me.  But to say the least, I was not very good.
At Hobby Lobby, I bought a "Teach yourself to knit book" - which is fine and helpful.  But.....then I struck gold at my new favorite place - the Farmington Public Library.  The library is wonderful, with lots of natural light, plenty of tables, fast wi-fi, what more could a girl want?

Knitting DVDs, that's what!

So I checked out 4 volumes of knitting DVDs to get my knitting hobby jump started.
The first project was a simple dish cloth.  The second project an ugly mitten.
See below.

I say mitten, because I fully intend not to make mittens.  There will be no matching pair to this sad mitten. Not unless you comment and tell me you want it for Christmas and well then I'll make you a matching mitten :)

I have decided though that I could use my new talent of mitten making to make very small mittens for Winter decorations - a garland or something.  We'll see.

The real reason I decided I wanted to learn to knit is I want to make a pair of fingerless gloves.  And to make fingerless gloves I need to learn how to knit in the round.  Knitting in the round requires 4+ needles.  Now you can see why I need a DVD to help me.  I'm through DVDs lesson 1 and 2.  I'm going to watch DVD 3, but not make the scarf and then move onto the good stuff - lesson 4, when I will learn to knit in the round.  I better hop to it!  I leave here on Thursday!

Wish me luck!  And seriously if you want my mitten let me know :)  Or heck if you want the dishcloth leave a comment and I'll send one to you :)

Puzzles

So I finally finished my puzzle.  1,000 pieces.

Here's the picture :)  (thanks for the comments Sammy)

In progress:

Completed!

When I realized that my one puzzle wasn't going to last my entire month.  I went to Wal-Mart and bought a 3 pack of puzzles.  There was a small 100 piece, 300 piece, and a 500 piece.  Below is the small 100 piece.  I finished that puzzle in a day - too easy.