Fun Day Friday, Pumpkins, Odds & Ends

This post will be kind of a hodge podge of information just to get caught up in the blogging world. Every Friday at my work we have "Fun Day Friday". Over about a six month period each team is assigned to be in charge of one Friday competition of some sort for the whole office. The winning team is allowed to wear jeans to work the next Friday. My team has never won; in the last competition we took second place by a VERY narrow margin and it was so heartbreaking. We decided we'd rather take last place than second. It just hurt too much to be so close to the jeans and then to have them ripped away from us. Yesterday's competition was a pumpkin carving contest. The below pumpkin was my team's entry. Another girl on my team and I concocted up the idea, made our own template and carved the whole thing. If I had my way we would have just done something Cougariffic but more than half of my team cheers for the wrong team so we had to compromise and include both schools. We were pretty pleased with how it turned out, but we did not win.

without the light

The winning pumpkin - Napoleon
I have to admit, he looks pretty cool. The winning team got their template online...not as original as ours but whatever. Notice the pocket with the tots, the chapstick and the "Vote for Pedro" t-shirt. The team sits right next to us so when next Friday rolls around and we have to see them in their jeans all day it's going to hurt especially bad.

Some of the other pumpkins. The one on the far right is the CEO of our company. In real life it looked better than in this picture. It was very easy to tell who it was supposed to be.

Binge-drinking - never a good idea!

Maybe I should try to transfer to the team that carved this pumpkin - they obviously have their priorities straight!

Continuing with the hodge podge, this is just a picture of Taylor and I at Lagoon this summer. We went with Kacey and Joe (and the rest of Kacey's office, which used to be my office). It was really fun.



For Valentine's Day this year Taylor drew me a picture of a coffee table that he planned to make for me, which I was very excited about of course. Since we were in NY at the time he wasn't able to start right away. When we got back he got started on it and worked during his breaks and sometimes he would stay late to work on it. Well he finished it on my Birthday and I absolutely love how it turned out! He designed it and made it from start to finish; I was incredibly impressed!

While my sister Marilyn and her husband have been on a cruise their five kids have been making the rounds staying with different aunts and uncles. This weekend has been mine and Taylor's turn with them. We've stayed with them at their house. Five kids is so much more than a handful! We wanted to do pumpkins with them but we decided that actually carving them might be a little more than what we could handle so we got these peel off pumpkin tattoo face things and did them instead. Best of both worlds, the kids got to make cute fun pumpkins to put on their porch but we didn't have to deal with the mess and hassle of carving them.

Awww - how cute are they?

Uncle Tay helping the kids :) We couldn't get Kolton to do pumpkins with us - party pooper!

Uncle Tay being such a fun uncle, playing Legos with Oakley.

The above video is what Addi and Oakley did for a large part of the weekend. They fell more times than I can count, they ran into each other and doors but never once did I see one of them cry because of it...hey, whatever keeps them happy and busy!