potpourri

I don't have any great blogging material but here's some random stuff to tide me over til Thanksgiving.
Our cute little pumpkin family. The big one was 27 pounds.
The time has come to say goodbye to these shoes. I loved them, but the heels are all torn up. Time to go shopping!
My sweet watch tan. I wonder how long it will take for it to fade.
Kristin carved the big pumpkin on Halloween. Isn't he cute?
Nichelle made this delectable chocolate pudding dessert to take to our ward break-the-fast.
Last Wednesday we woke up to this.
Pretty wintry, eh?
But later on that day it looked like this.
I love the ducks!
Nichelle gutted the second-biggest pumpkin to make a crisp with raw pumpkin. I was kind of hoping a food fight would break out but it didn't. :)
This is just the pumpkin, not the final product, but it was pretty good.

My chem professor is so fantastic. He's really good at making his lectures involving and almost always does some kind of explosion or demo in class. He did one a couple weeks ago that made me wish SO much I had my camera. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. On Halloween, he lectured like normal for the first half, then put on a white labcoat with something stuck inside so he had a "hunchback," and did a bunch of demos until the end of class, talking all the while in his Igor voice. It was so entertaining. This video isn't that exciting but it's what I have because he recorded this one himself and posted it on Blackboard. We were talking about gases and Boyle's Law, so of course he had made a marshmallow man named Mr. Boyle and we blew him up.

We went to the last home game yesterday. I can't believe the football season is almost over. I'm glad though--the games are fun but they kind of kill your Saturday. The band did a video game themed show with several parts--Link, Mortal Combat, Pokemon, Guitar Hero. This is Guitar Hero. I had to have Kristin explain what was up with the guard running around with colored umbrellas because I've never played the game. The Link section was most exciting, though. They played that classic music and formed a triforce. It was great. :)