Halloween Turnips!

This year for Halloween, instead of carving pumpkins, Kenneth and I decided to carve turnips. As it turns out, this is how jack-o-lanterns originally began.

 As you can see - they turned out awesome. They are smaller and don't have quite as much gunk inside - just turnip. They were so much fun!

I think this is going to be a new Halloween tradition at our house :)

We of course carved them while watching "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and the Garfield Halloween special

Some of my favorite things...

It was exactly one year ago that I started taking care of these cute kids:

I love them so much!!! I am so lucky to get to play with them every day :)

Here's to another great year!

Material Culture

This semester Kenneth is taking a class titled: Material Culture. It's studying the cultural and historical significance of the things that we make. His project this week was to actually interview someone who makes things and then learn to make something himself. 

Kenneth decided to interview me and have me teach him how to piece a quilt block on my sewing machine. He did such an awesome job! So well, in fact, that we made his block into a pillow. It looks so great decorating our couch :)