It is Almost Time!!!

They have arrived, the pumpkins are being piled up in stores as we speak.  I just love the Halloween candy aisle and laughed when Seth ran to the pumpkins today but wouldn't kiss them like he did last year.  Maybe this is an improvement...

We had to take a trunk full to the DI and Seth found this little beauty.  It was high up on a shelf and he was so excited when he figured out it makes sound.  But it'd not just James Earl Jones' voice and heaving breathing, no, this puppy can make your own voice and words and heavy breathing sound similar to that of Darth's!!!

Once we got home he was dancing around begging me to play the storm trooper song as well as Weird Al Yancovich's Star Wars song.  He ended up rolling on the floor singing:

Oh my, my this here Annakin guy

Maybe Vader someday later

Now he's just a small fry

And he left his home and kissed his mummy goodbye

Saying "Soon, I'm gonna be a Jedi"

"Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi."

Maybe we'll have to try again with his cape and light saber

but he couldn't wait for Daddy to get home today!!!

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Carving Pumpkins

Last night we were scheduled to carve pumpkins. Chloe and Seth both decided not to eat their dinner. Instead of begging and pleading or prodding and punishing I simply told them that if they didn't finish their dinner they would not get to carve pumpkins tonight. You see, I was too tired to do it and this was way more convenient! So they sat ~ untouched on the dining room table waiting for tonight.

And Chloe and Seth were waiting to see what I would make for dinner tonight to determine if they would choose to eat. I gladly informed them that Halloween is going to be here very soon and tonight was the only night left we had available to cut pumpkins. I told them that I was o.k. with not carving any pumpkins this year. We could move them back out to the front porch and just let them rot away until Thanksgiving, uncarved and unloved...

They ate their dinner: Seth was not as gung-ho as Chloe, he thought it was very gross!

Every year we say that we are going to save some seeds to plant in the spring but every year we are so glad to be finished carving, that we clean up the slimy, stringy orange guts as quickly as possible and put our proud pumpkins on display.

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Farmer Dabb's

If you've never heard of him and never bought wreathes from him, you are missing out! Just google Lyle Dabb in Ogden, UT for directions to his stand. He makes these fabulous wreaths and they are so affordable. He picks pumpkins each day and has hay bales and corn stalks from his fields ready to go. He is so fun with the kids, too!

I thought it was so funny when he donned this funny jack-o-lanter head and posed with my kids. I about lost it when he sneakily put the carved pumpkin on Dan's head:

Tai wasn't sure what to think about it, but the blogger in me decided that I needed a picture of me as Mrs. Pumpkin Head and even though it was hard to get the blasted thing over my pigtails:

Farmer Dabb didn't give up!
He even entertained the kids with magic pumpkin tricks including

pulling a mini pumpkin out of Gwen's ear!

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Fall Decorations

I love Fall, I love the cooler weather, I love the colors, I love Halloween and I love Thanksgiving. I haven't had time to put out this season's decorations because of our fish lake trip. I remembered that we have the Davis Family FHE on the first Monday of each month and that today was our turn to host it some time Saturday night. I started digging through the boxes of crafts in the basement and was able to get everything set out and the house cleaned just in time for Dan's family to arrive:

Spooky Treats:

Love, love, love gourds! {They are not balls to be thrown, Dan!!!}
I try to have areas that change with seasons instead of spreading all over the house,
there isn't a picture of Jesus in my kitchen as well as any fall decor {Laura}!

And even though it doesn't really go,

I proudly display Chloe's Frankenstein that she made last year in Pre School:

This picture is mostly for Laura, as well:

Eat your heart out!I can't believe you left all of these pumpkins at Farmer Dabb's

They were so lonely and sad without you, we had to bring them all home!

Here are some of them on our front porch steps:
The Biggest ones are safe on the porch by our wicked witch

who is brewing up some scary potion {I need a fog machine}:

I love Halloween, I can't wait to take the kids trick or treating, I can't wait to

celebrate Josh's 25th birthday, I can't wait for Chloe's field trip, I just love Fall!

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