Annual TMC Pumpkin Contest 2011

Another Halloween, another pumpkin contest at TMC.  The competition was fierce this year.  My goal was to do something simple since the island I did last year took forever, then it rotted, then I had to do it over.  I decided on Hello Kitty.  And I came in dead last!  What a blow to the ego.  People thought it was cute, just not good enough to win.  I am going to have to step it up next year.

Amy's Texas Ranger baseball

Andy's Pac Man

Ashley's Minnie Mouse

Brittnie's mummy.

Cody's Marvin the Martian

Harry's Veggis Tails.  Yes, that is a real cucumber.

My Hello Kitty.

Jackie's ghost.

Jana's owl.  My pick for 1st!

Jason's M&M.

Kim's Happy Feet penguin.  This year's winner!

Luis's Plano Balloon Festival.

3rd place!  Paul David's Burt & Ernie.

2nd place!  Steve's Charlie Brown.

 

Halloween in Freddy Krugerville

We celebrated Halloween this year, but over a month of A Nightmare on Elm Street movies!  I watched all 10 in a row.

Other than that, we didn't do much.  We dressed Coleman up like a crab.  We handed out last year's left over candy.  It was lollipops so it wasn't like they had gone bad.  We only had 5 groups of trick or treaters anyway.  We didn't really decorate.  I didn't even really dress up at work.  Kind of a bummer.

Next year will be better.

Halloween at TMC.

Lifeguard banana.

Crabby Coleman

My pumpkin.

Candy Corn Coleman.

Smooches for my pooch!

TMC Christmas

This is the 1st year the TMC pool (only) has entered the Holiday Decorating contest.  Our theme was kind of all over the place.  We tried to stay with read, silver, & gold colors.  It was a great team building experience.  We wrapped both slides with lights.  (The slides are well sealed so there is no cause for alarm.  No one will get shocked.)  And painted the back windows.  We hung bows & ornaments.  Four Judges from the City Manager's Office came and judged.  We won Best Wet Christmas!
 

Ornaments hang from the Garage Doors.

Candy Cane Slide Stairs.

Lights on the Leisure Slide.

Gingerbread window painting.

Drop Slide Xmas tree.

Lollipop Forest with Snowman.

Me in the Drop Slide.

Head Guards Cary, Brittnie, Kristi, & Caitlin.  Coleman is an honorary HG.

Snowy tree window.

Polar express mountain with tiny Grinch.

Head Guards, me, and WSI 2s Rachel & Brandon.

TMC Pumpkin Contest

TMC has a Pumpkin Decorating Contest every year.  I was very excited to participate this year.  So excited, in fact, that I started way too early.  I had a great idea for the theme of my pumpkin to be my favorite show, LOST.  But the more I thought about it, the more expensive it became.  So I decided to just do an island.  I painted my pumpkin over a week in advance and it rotted.  One part of my beach became a sink hole.  So I redid it the day before the contest.  And after all that work, I still lost.  The patrons voted.  The result of everyone's pumpkins was great.  So many creative ideas.

Ashley's Brobie pumpkin.  Working the kid angle.

The winner!  Jana's black cat.

Paul David's Angry Birds.

My Island.

Amy's Raphael Ninja Turtle.

Cody's Count.

Harry's Disco Ball.

Jackie's Pumpkin Pirates.  Complete with strobe light.

Jason's Potato Heads.

Melinda's Wilson.

My pick for 1st place, Steve's Ice Cream Sundae.

The WSI 2's cat.

CARP Reunion!

I missed all my Carpenter peeps, so we decided to have a reunion.  Many of us have scattered since I left Carpenter in March.  Dorian and Steve went to Oak Point and Tommie moved to Liberty.  We all met at the new Chuy's in West Plano.  At first they said it was an hour and a half wait!  But just as we were going to leave, they called our group.  It was really nice to have the gang back together.

Coffy, Jodi, & Sandy

Me and my girls!

Dorian with the meat plate, Stephanie won't stop eating for anyone, and Steve.

Tommie

Deuces!

Me and my boo, Bryan.

Group Pic with Sorority squat!

Good times!

We're so cute!