The family came together today to have some fun carving pumpkins. We were pleased to share the fun with a Japanese exchange student named, Aiyu. She had never experienced Halloween and her laughs and giggles made the afternoon more special for us all! As you can see by the pictures below our goal was realized and we all had a blast!
Sometimes life passes us by so quickly that we never have the time to stop and say "How did they do that!?" Well, take a minute or two and tell me how they did this!


A man who once embodied physical strength and supernatural powers later went on to show us the true strengths of human nature. Please take a moment and show respect to the memory of Christopher Reeve. May he soar with the angels.
I use a script called
Pivot to power this site. It's a great script that allows almost anyone to have a website of their own without knowing how to actually make one.

They recently ran a contest and now have a pile of templates available to preview and download on the new
Pivot Styles website.
The coolest part of all is that
isblogging.net Hosting has offered to setup
Pivot with any of the templates from the
Pivot Styles website for free to anyone purchasing a hosting plan from them! What does that mean for most people? Well, now you can have a website setup for you and running without having to know all of the programming details! Sweet!
I just updated to the most recent release of Pivot. Of the many wonderful changes made to Pivot I think that the new 'timed publish' feature is going to be the most useful! A full list of the changes can be seen
here.
As a couple of people might already know, I am in the hosting biz with a small company called
isblogging.net Hosting. I had a couple of banners put together yesterday and thought I'd toss them up and see if anyone had any comments.