Pumpkin Carving - Take 2

This past weekend we decided it was time to carve some more pumpkins. We went all out. The pumpkins altogether weighed around 80 pounds. 



Stetson with the huge pumpkins





Stetson starting out on the big pumpkin! It was so dang thick.




creepy/disturbing




Freaken deep pumpkin. I told Stetson that if he cut the top off my pumpkin I would gut the big one for him.




I can't take serious pictures :)



The special pumpkin!




In the pumpkin carving zone.




My finished product




He decided he would gut the second pumpkin. haha



bahaha looks just like the pumpkin



They all turned out so great! We were way stoked for the Kunz Family pumpkin. Stetson did a great job!



It turns out we jumped the gun thinking the pumpkins would last til Halloween. Either way it gives us an excuse to carve some more before then. :)

Punkin Carving Time!

Tis the season for pumpkin carving! I have never carved a pumpkin in my life. I always watched people do it and it looked kind of fun.

This is the first year I have really wanted to carve a pumpkin, so we decided to do a trial run. We bought the carving kit and a pumpkin and went to work. Thank goodness Stetson had done this before, because I sure didn't know what I was doing.

My wonderful husband helping me out!

Yay! Gutting it - the messy fun part, which Stetson wasn't really fond of :)

We were so stoked, and had to put the finished product out on the front door steps to show everyone what we did. I have decided I really like carving pumpkins, it is almost therapeutic. So when Halloween gets closer, we will do a couple more. :)

Dinosaur National Monument

So I never really knew how popular the Vernal and surrounding areas were for dinosaurs. But there are many museums and monuments to go visit.
The Dinosaur National Monument has just recently re-opened after 5 years for some structural repairs. We decided it would be fun to go see, and not to mention it was free.
I hadn't heard much about this place, and didn't know what to expect. So we took the shuttle up to this building, which I thought was weird. I guess I was expecting to go to a spot outdoors where they were just laying there in the ground. I obviously don't know much about these things. I didn't know that inside the building was a wall of bones stuck in the side of a cliff. It was pretty amazing to see all the bones.
It was a fun little get away, and the scenery was beautiful as well despite the cold and the clouds.

This building houses 1,500 dinosaur bones in a cliff

 

The rock formations around the monument were awesome.

Cloudy and cold, the day before it snowed!

Ride Up Nine Mile

Stetson has been working out in Nine Mile a lot, and he has always told me how beautiful it is out there. There was road construction going on up there when they were working and they closed the roads before they could come back the way they usually came. So Stetson and his crew had to come back a different way through East Carbon and Price. He told me if we ever had the chance to take a four-wheel drive truck, he would take me up there.

So Conference weekend we went to Price to spend General Conference with family. After the sunday afternoon session, Nanette and Bud let Stetson, Deidra, and I take their truck for a little ride.

I now understand why Stetson would only take a four-wheel drive truck. The roads were narrow, steep, and windy, but it was so worth it. The scenery was amazing with all the trees changing colors. It brought me back to the sunday rides we would take in Colorado.

Here are the pictures I took with my phone. I brought my camera, but it turns out my phone took better pictures than my camera...gotta love advanced technology. :)

We saw a small heard of big horned sheep

We got up to around 10,000 feet in elevation