recent events: pumpkin carving at the mengarelli's.

kim & eddie mengarelli are a couple that we are good friends with from our church here in LR. eddie is also in medical school, a year behind stuart. kim works for an organization that gives grants to rural communities in AR so they can purchase things like firetrucks and other necessary community-type items. kim & eddie are really great. one of my favorite things about them is that i can look out the front window of our apartment and see their house - they live so close by!

a few weeks ago, they had some folks over from church to to carve pumpkins. we drowned ourselves in apple cider, pumpkin cookies and banana bread and got our creative juices flowing... photos from the event:

getting ready with my pumpkin.

grant and jessica lewis, rob bradsher all working on their pumpkins.

rob, eddie and stu.

stuart performing a delicate surgery on his pumpkin.

cleaning out the guts.

P! (for pierce, duh.)

eddie working on his creepy-face pumpkin.

kim working on her pumpkin.

cuteface.

grant and jessica finish first!

our jack-o-lantern family.

close up of my P and stu's batman sign.

one of the mengarelli kitties. she is the halloween cat. the flash was too bright for her.