Pumpkin Carving Party - 2014

Last Saturday, we had our annual Pumpkin Carving Party at the house.

We had a lot of family and friends over (around 45 people), lots of food and lots of carving. I want to say that we had more participation this year - 17 pumpkins.

Everyone had fun talking and hanging out.

Franken-cups

Favors for the kids to take home

 Lots of Food

The Mikruts' 1st Pumpkin Party :)

Tom cleaned all the pumpkins

Carving Time

Eddie helping Evelyn & Grace

Grace helping me with her pumpkin

Pap-Pap worked really hard on his pumpkin

I had helpers tallying the votes

Grace wanted to make a candy corn

Tommy choose a spider

Tommy was the winner of one of the 3 kids prizes

The Hosts (minus Tommy - he was too busy running around)

Parents & Autumnfest

A couple weekends ago my parents came up for a visit. They were here from Wednesday night (after a flight delay) until Sunday late morning.

The kids stayed home with them during the day on Thursday and Friday. Tom did come get them on Friday afternoon and dropped them off at Fort Ligonier Days. They had fun looking at the arts and crafts with Tom's parents.

 Hanging out at home with Gramma & Grampa

Face painting at Fort Ligonier Days

Dinner at the Club

Saturday, we went to 7 Springs for Autumnfest. Other than a foggy/drizzly start - we ended up having a lot of fun looking at the crafts (the girls), sampling beer, running around the hay maze and painting (the kids).

Patiently waiting to paint

Tommy wanted to do a "Mummy"

Grace wanted to do a sunflower

People Watching

Is it bad that this picture makes me laugh?!? - He wasn't really hurting her...

Grace was keeping her distance

Family photo time

Hay Maze

They love each other

Golfing & Driving

A couple Sundays ago, I took the kids to a birthday party at Statler's Fun Center. Other than the fact that both kids ran around like wild people (it's hard keeping up with both of them when they aren't in a contained area), it was a pretty fun time.

Tommy thoroughly enjoyed doing anything that made him feel like he was driving - go carts, motorcycle, Big Rig and car racing games. Whew!

Another guy at the party volunteered to "ride" with Tommy

He looks very focused

Grace was a little more relaxed, but her favorite thing (and it hurts me to type this) was the mini-golf.

Look at that swing

Grace did like air hockey too. :)

Football Anyone?

I think a couple of guys are ready for Sunday football...

Hillman Cancer Center Gala

Last night, Tom and I were invited to the Hillman Cancer Center Gala by one of my bosses. The Gala was held at the Consol Energy Center.

We arrived a little after the event started at 5:30 for the cocktail hour. At around 6:30 we headed down to the ice for the presentation and dinner. All the people at our table were really friendly and Tom even exchanged business cards with one of the guys. We did like the performers and the food was pretty good.

Each chair had white wine, red wine & water

Menu for the night

Us