Carving Pumpkins

Every year Sarah and I get pumpkins with the full intention of carving them on the first day of the Halloween week. However, for about seven years straight we have never seemed to get them carved until the last ten minutes before we head out for trick-or-treating on the big night. When we stopped trick-or-treating, after elementary school, we had plenty of time to carve the pumpkins, but we still found a way to procrastinate.

It is ironic that on the busiest Halloween week in my life, we actually carved our pumpkins early. This was a big shocker for me and my family.

Well let's get down to the business...we'll start with Sarah.

For some reason Sarah felt the need to give her pumpkin a bath in the sink. I guess she is practicing for when she has kids of her own. I really don't know what goes on that little head of hers.

Now I would assume that Sarah is practicing for her wedding day. Again, I really don't know when it comes to Sarah....

After hours of searching for the perfect pumpkin design, Sarah find a cute little ghost to carve.

Tedious work I tell you...

"Pa, pa, pa, poker face, pa, pa, poker face..."

Sarah's muscles put too much pressure on the carving tools. When it happened she acted all innocent.

Sarah messed up on her ghost design, so she decided to carve big eyes. I felt like I was in an art gallery when I was looking at Sarah's pumpkin. Not because it was beautiful, but because I felt like I was seeing something that wasn't intended to be seen....

Of course after I told Sarah what I was seeing, she decided it was necessary to add some pupils to the eyes... we thought this would humor some visitors during the week.

My pumpkin was ginormous. I knew exactly what I wanted to carve.

My IOWA HAWKEYES baby... I was so excited to carve my pumpkin.

I took forever to carve my pumpkin. I had a ton of fun though.

Well, by the end of the night we finished our creations. Let's just hope we can get a head start next year.

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Today was the day that I planned on looking up colleges for fun. I wanted to see what I would have to do to get a scholarship. I also wanted to see what college would be good to go to if I for sure wanted to be a teacher.

I first looked up University of Utah. Their web site is crazy hard to find anything on. Although I really do like the honors program they offer, their college does not appeal to my liking. Anyways... I then looked up the obvious, BYU. I never have been able to picture myself going to BYU. I will leave that college for Sarah to go to. After an hour or two of looking at colleges, I thought to myself "Maybe I should look up University of Iowa. After all, my English teacher went there, and she seems to have liked it." Okay, so then I Googled it and I went to the school's site. I looked around and I checked out their major options and tuition costs. At this point I really liked the U of Iowa. After researching their Alumni comments, I took a look at Iowa's Fight song. At the first moment of hearing the song I fell in love.

Sorry to all my fellow U of U friends that I told I would go to Utah for college. Sorry Melissa and mom for not wanting to go to BYU. I love the scenery around Iowa's campus. I especially like the river near by. Ya it would be a long flight home for the holidays, but Iowa is worth it. All I have to do now is buy a whole lot of Hawkeye fan wear, and load up on my Iowa history. I can see it now, Lizzy Fotheringham University of Iowa Alumni. I just get chills thinking about it now. Well University of Iowa "Here I come!"

"The Catch"

Capitol One Bowl, Iowa vs LSU.