Fall

I am a very indecisive person.  I like to have two favorites because I can never decide which I actually like better because it changes.  For example, I have two favorite colors: green and blue.  I have two favorite candies: skittles and starbursts.

It is not surprising that I am in an eternal debate whether I like fall or spring better.  The temperatures are similar, you get to get out different clothes and there are great colors in both seasons.  Yesterday, I decided that I like fall best, but I am sure when spring comes I will like it the best.

We love to go on walks to find our favorite colored leaves and crunch the ones that have already fallen. Caleb loves the dark red and dark yellow leave.  Lucy likes the light red and light yellow ones. Toby naturally likes the orange ones. Nellie likes them all. I like the really bright ones, the red, orange or yellow.  Not every one, they are mostly dull, but every once in a while there is a really vibrant tree.   We find it interesting to see that some trees have already lost all of their leaves, while others have not even started to turn colors.

This was at school.  A neighbor's tree turns an awesome red, but has not turned yet.

The trees in our yard (and one of our neighbor's trees that falls directly into our yard) are later turners so we don't have much to crunch here yet. Nellie and Toby had a blast playing in the leaves at school while we waited for the bell to ring.

This is Nellie's new "Cheese" face...she smiles like this and says "Cheese" when we get out the camera.

Our neighbor had planted some seeds in his garden, from which we often benefit.  He gave us three seedlings.  Andy mowed over them, not just once, but three times.  One plant beat the odds and grew and grew and grew.  It overtook the yard between our house and garage.  We had flowers galore, but only 2 female flowers, which were never fertilized, so no pumpkins.  The neighbor said we could come over and pick his (the best commute to a pumpkin patch ever!).

 

 

Note the "Cheese" face again.

They were smallish, not the best for carving, but great for decorating the porch.  I love to put pumpkins on our front porch.  While carving them can be fun, I really like leaving them out until Thanksgiving (this year it happens to be on Toby's birthday).  We usually wait to buy pumpkins until they are on sale at Aldi and stock up.  They are usually cheap enough that we buy one for everyone and only carve the kids'.  This year they were even cheaper than usual ($2.29) and were HUGE.  Since with had the other small pumpkins, we decided to get only two to carve, one for the boys and one for the girls to carve. We have one pumpkin for each member of the family.