Productive Day

Kenny and I had a productive day today!

We had a bunch of apples I picked from my Aunt LaDean's trees that needed some attention, so we got started on making APPLESAUCE!

Kenny got a pretty good picture of my belly in this one (which has finally started to develop). Here I am at 18 1/2 weeks:

Kenny loved working the Victorian Strainer and was bummed whenever I strained the apples.

We decided to make a batch of fruit leather with the applesauce! :)

We had almost twice this much applesauce. We got 7 1/2 quarts which we froze, plus some fruit leather.

Next we decided to clean out our freezers so that we know what exactly we have and so that they are ORGANIZED! I didn't take any before pictures (sorry), but here are the after pictures:

After we cleaned out the freezers we took the dogs up to Mink Creek to give them some exercise. If you know us to have only two dogs instead of three, well, that's still true. We are taking care of my brother, Ryan's, dog Duke until Christmas. He is stationed in Georgia for the U.S. Army. We just wanted to let Duke come down and live with us for a couple months. He is having a lot of fun with our dogs!

Kenny posing with Duke. That's about as far in the water as Duke got.

Here's Joey and Maggie. Joey had to retrieve a stick in the culvert and from there couldn't decide how to get out. He's a bit afraid of just jumping out.

After we got home from our Mink Creek adventure we made a nice dinner. Kenny gave the dogs some baby carrots for a treat and we noticed Joey was chewing kind of funny. This is where Kenny confessed that he ACCIDENTALLY hit Joey in the side of the face with a rock. I said, "WHAT!?!" Kenny was swinging his arm to throw a rock when Joey came running up behind him and Kenny, with rock still in hand, clubbed (or I should say "rocked") Joey in the side of the face. Well, Joey has a nice golf-ball sized lump on the side of his face now. So what did I do?

Yep. I strapped an ice pack to the side of his face for ten minutes and plan on doing it some more until the swelling goes down. :)

Cheshire Cat, Kenny's Birthday, and Halloween

I just want to start out with a couple funny pictures of our funny cat Chevy. When we have our dogs' pillows/beds laying out, Chevy just has to go an "hide" under them, but he doesn't always do a thorough job:

Our Cheshire Cat:

Next, we have Kenny's birthday dinner. I didn't get any pictures of Kenny because he's not a huge fan of pictures and just poses to amuse me sometimes, so for his birthday I didn't take pictures of him...just dinner. He had to work all day, but when he got home I had one of his favorite meals ready for him:

Chicken Tettrazinni

Caesar Salad

"Skor" Cake
(It's also known by a different name but I won't mention it, and it was mostly devoured by the time I remember to take a picture).

Now on to Halloween! We didn't know what we were going to do for the day, so we mostly just bummed around most of the day. Then we tried to figure out what to do for the evening besides hand out candy, so at the last minute we decided to do a Halloween-y dinner for the three of us (me, Kenny, and Kenny's brother Travis).

This is dinner as a whole. We had Swamp Juice:

Mummified Hot Dogs:

Vampire Fangs
(sliced apples dipped in strawberry sauce):

Amputated Fingers

Cupcake Spiders

We had a lot of fun making everything. Travis and Kenny really got into making the "fingers". The swamp juice was different but still fun. After dinner we had a couple friends come over who had a Halloween Trivia game we played. Of course we all sucked at it cause most of the questions were about "Silence of the Lambs" and the "Halloween" movies and "The Shining", all of which most of us hadn't seen. But we all made it fun anyway.