Yes i carved this pumpkin, and yes it did win 50 dollars in a local dorm contest between 5 dorms.

It looks way cooler when its lite up, but stupid rules say that candles are not allowed inside of the dorms. But if there was a candle in it, i outlined the teeth so they would light up.

My drawing is what i origionally planned to do, but they (the community council), put a 45 minute time limit on the contest so i decided to leave out the broken hole/worm idea and left out all the detailed finishing lines and just went with the plain skull.

competition well dominated.

Frogs are Cool, but Dinasaurs & Pumpkins are Better!

First, for those of you who could not attend the festivities of Abbi's 3rd Birthday Party, here is a picture of the cake that Kerry created. I will say that she totally rules and really out-did herself on this one. What will she create next?....................her birthday is coming up, maybe she'll make.........................an old woman cake to signify her jump to 32 years old.

Also, here are some pics of my lovely "girls" with our pumkins...................the HOT ONE is my wife, Kerry,...............the two cute ones are my offspring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, here is a spooky picture of our Jack-O-Lanterns...................

Squash

And no that not what we did with the body of the last frog.....Yes we went frog hunting/shopping, we hit every pet store in Tucson, and found the perfect frog. We at first were looking for a red eyed tree frog, I'm sure you have all seen what they look like, but couldn't find one in Tucson, so the last pet store that we went to, the coolest one, had a baby albino pac-man frog. Before i continue you need to hear about how awesome this pet store was, it has tons of big tropical birds and they just love me. I would walk past there big play pen and like 4 birds would just start walking at me and slowly climb up my arms. Plus they had tons of reptiles and amphibians, or Herps if your last name is Warsen. This is a lucky find because we had been at this pet store the day before and there were some dumpy frogs, and some green and black pac-man frogs and a fantasy frog, but Brooke just need to sleep on what frog she wanted, after all this was her choice for a frog. Then when she started to mock me for going to the pet store again i said, "well what if a new shipment of frogs came in." she laughed at me, but then when we arrived at this, the coolest pet store ever, there was a new shipment of frogs in, and we saw the baby pac-man frog. Now i know what your going to say when you see the pictures, "wow that thing is tiny and its just a head with stumpy legs." And you'd be right, but it will get bigger like 5 pounds bigger, yeah thats a big frog and it was pure beauty in Brooke's eyes (and thats all that matters). So check out the pics, he is small and his name is Squash (it was a close race between squash and banana head for names) but he will get bigger, lots bigger, like hold him with two hands bigger.......

RIP Hefilump

For those of you who do not know, Hefilump (aka the fat frog) past away at approximately 8:30 pm on Monday. he/she was found sprawled out in the middle of the aquarium with his head skyward and his eye shut. This came to me as an amazement because the day before i had sprayed water at his head and i saw him blink an eye. This is a tremendous loss. Hefilump will be remember not only has a frog large in stature but also as a fellow with a gregarious personality and many found him very extroverted in public situations but very introverted in the comfort of his own aquarium. Hefilump leaves behind no wife/husband and no children. He/she will be missed by all. Possible causes of death are thought to be kidney failure which is a problem for over weight frogs or possible heart failure, cardiac arrest, or any other death that is associated with over weight animals.......


On another note there will be a search for a new aquarium friend for Herman, the frogs in the running are a pac man frog, golden tree frog, and a green tree frog........I will keep you posted.

My Dorm room in West B

If all of you were wondering what my dorm room looked like, i took a couple of snap shots so i could enlighten you. my room is on the right from the door entrance.

The bits of jolly in my life.

So i realize that a post has not been put down in a while and i think that we are a horrible family at blogging. I check out the Sportel blog everyday and i am greeted with wondrous stories of their life, so come on family lets kick it in high gear.... So of late there have been many many exciting things in my life (mostly exciting because i live i life that is constantly planned out, these are my little joys). First off i found a giant moth on the wall, as you can see in the picture it is huge, second my car hit 100,000 miles like 2 weeks ago, it was a wondrous occasion, she is running wonderful, if only for the check emissions warning i get every time I'm low on gas and its hot out. I changed the wiper blades last weekend and am amazed at how clear my windshield actually is these days. It case your wondering Brooke's frog is still fat and she still worries that it is getting skinnier. Last but not least i carved a pumpkin last night. Me and Brooke make a great team because she only like so scoop out the "guts" and i only like to make beautiful works of art. My pumpkin does not look at amazing as it did the night i carved it. It seems that last night when i put some 8 candles in it (for light purposes) and left them in the whole night they dried out the pumpkin and his face fell in a little. So if you can't figure it out its a murderous squid. I figured I'd take the corner market on murderous squid pumpkins. His face is suppose to have slanty eye brows and strategically drilled eye holes and a frowny face. But it dried out and and it is no longer. Also just for the record when you put, lets say, 8 candles in a pumpkin the build up of wax can burn a hole threw the bottom of the pumpkin and drip on the ground, figured you would like to know just for the record.

Secret Operation: REVEALED!

We all know that mom has been using a small piece of land to produce plenty of scrumptious vegetables. The little plot of land produced many colorful flowers, and tons of "razelberries".
Something that we did not know however is who's land this garden was taking place on. Mom has been secretly using government land (Satan Buxa's land, aka: the naked children army aka: "cant stand having people use 1/100 of my land to produce things of nutrition".) to make a garden. I am sick and tired of these people of Hatred. Maybe they were pissed because they never got any of those luscious 3 tomatoes mom produced, i just don't know.

Me and Kirk also had a similar experience when taking abbi back onto their land to look for salamanders. Kirk had abbi on his shoulders and I was just in front leading the way. As soon as we made a attempt to cross into the death zone, satan, I mean Mr. buxa yelled to us in a stern voice, "HEY, what are you kids going back there for" I wanted to reply to kill and bury abbi so no one could find the remains, but we just innocently said that we were going to try to find salamanders.

There have been many other encounters with the Buxas and i am sick and tired of his ridiculous barbed wire fences and no trespassing signs. (because a barbed wire fence surrounding your house has a very friendly look to it.

But for now we will just have to suck it up, and deal with those Buxas.

PS if you notice in the picture, the wiring covers only the place where moms garden is and does not stretch the length of his property on the road side. Trying to give us a meassage? Or just being plain evil.