Pumpkin Time!

Saturday night we carved pumpkins with out cousins.  Here are the finished pumpkins.  The four we carved were grown in our garden, the only four that grew in our garden.

Counter clockwise from Top left.  Elisabeth, Brenna, Spencer (green), Sam, Ben/Rebekah, Lincoln.  Ben/Rebekah's pumpkin is Edward Cullen, in honor of Twilight soon being done!  Brenna's pumpkin was attacked in the garden so we used the black spot in the carving.  That is the mouth and we will stick a carrot cigar in.  Advanced cancer is attacking this pumpkin.

Here is Lauren's pumpkin on the left.  She drew and carved it herself this year.  Pretty scary.  On the Right is cousin Joe's pumpkin.  It is the Beatles crossing Abbey Road.

Cancerous pumpkin aglow!

Evil pumpkin!

Poor Spencer pumpkin.  It was still green but he insisted on it and the rind has begun to wither already because it is so soft.  May not make it til Halloween.

Edward! 

Pleasant Grove Firehouse Tour

On Friday morning we got to tour the Pleasant Grove Firehouse as a family.  The kids were on Fall Break and Ben had met with the fire chief Thursday morning, talking politics, and received an invitation to come back with the family.  It isn't what you know but who you know sometimes, although I guess what Ben knew and talked with the chief about is what got us the tour.  The kids had a blast seeing the engines and going for a ride in the $1 million tiller truck with the ladder.  It is a one hundred foot ladder and looks very  much like the one in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."  We didn't climb it.The fire chief is awesome and was very kind to show us everything. 

Here is Spencer in the back of the big truck.  It is so large it has it's own steering and power in the back.  Spencer didn't get to drive it, thankfully, but Ben did get to ride back there when we took the drive.

This is the part of the truck the rest of us rode in.  We got to wear the headsets, though they didn't use the siren.  We could hear each other through the radio.  Spencer put his headset on and started to talk before his mic was on and Lauren said, "I can't hear you Spencer." To which he replied, "I can hear myself." 

Brenna got to sit in her own chair, but she wouldn't wear the headset.

The kids tried on the fire helmet.  It was surprisingly heavy. 

The window was open on one side and Lauren said that as we drove around she waved to some kids in a passing car and they looked a bit startled to see her in the fire truck.  Yes, not your typically trained firefighter.

Even Brenna took a turn up in the back of the truck.

Spencer and Lauren were up in the back together and Spencer collapsed the seat on her.  He has much to learn before becoming a true fireman.

Spencer was the only one of the kids who even thought about sliding down the pole.  He wasn't so sure so Ben went first.

He was very graceful.

We tried to have Spencer just sit on the edge of the whole and grab the pole and the fireman would catch him as he swung over the edge.  It didn't fly.  Stranger danger! 

This was Spencer's favorite part of the tour.  This is the room where they have the big tv and game stations to play games while they wait for calls to come in.  Spencer knew exactly what the controllers were for.  I think he may have even turned the xbox on.  That is Chief Sanderson in the middle. 



Crazy Hair

As part of Red Ribbon Week, the kids wore some crazy hair styles to school.  Spencer's hair was even crazier when we took it out after he got home.  I think he may need a hair cut.