Happy Halloween!!

One of Troy's first pumpkin masterpieces...took no less than 5 hours. Funny that I sometimes wonder why it takes sooooo lloooooonnnnggg for big jobs to get done around the house:)

Pumpkin Party

Bailey's Birthday/Riley Pumpkin Carving Party is another Fall tradition.....We all look forward to it! Troy usually carves a fantastic pumpkin, but succumbed to other responsibilities and lack of planning. Why does he always start carving at 9pm the night before?! It's always fun to get together at Tim & Deb's cuz they know how to make everyone feel welcome and always have good munchies and beer:) Kit & Kelsi drew on their chalkboard painted pumpkins and had a fun-filled first pumpkin carving party. Can't wait for the many more.....

Eventhough it's Freezing...Let's go Get a Pumpkin or Two

Looks like we may have a tradition here.....pumpkins & apples & animals at Pecks. At least we know that every year will be a little different based on the weather. Last year was 80 degrees and this year 40 degrees! (Kit's first time wearing her winter coat which was a super cheap score at the Big K....:) We're going to spray chalkboard paint on our pumpkins this year, at Bailey's Pumpkin Carving Party, so the little ones can write on them.....and be as creative as they want to be. Oh yeah, the apple crisp wasn't too bad either. It might be better than my Mom's?!

And Then She Ate....

It seems that everytime we sit down for supper Kit looks at the food, tastes it, then decides it's much more fun to run around the table, go find Dante, or just get up and down off the chair. I had no idea meal times would be sooooo frustrating and almost hurt my feelings. Why won't she eat what I cook?! I've been making a decided point to master the art of trying to get a good meal on the table so we can all eat together and she wants no part of the plan. But then....I made cheesy potatoes....the ones with so much butter, cheese, cream o' mushroom soup in them that you almost don't know you're eating a potatoe. And she ate them, and ate them, and stole them off Troy's plate, and didn't get down until there was a hell of a mess and she couldn't eat anymore. In between bites of potatoe she even ate some pork and I almost fainted. So....it looks like these damn potatoes will be a part of many a meal at our house.