Pumpkins! Yee-Haw!

One of the things I loved about living in PR was our 4 seasons. Okay it felt sometimes like winter and spring and a few minutes of fall and summer, but we always had all 4. And we've been down here long enough to experience summer. And summer. But October brings us right into fall! (three cheers!!!) And colder weather and turing the heat on, and wearing jeans and sweaters, and rainy days, and leaves changing colors, and pumpkins!

We went out yesturday and got a few fatty pumpkins to carve for Halloween. But this way we can have them out all month long. We decorated our house for "autumn" thus saving a little coin and hitting Halloween and Thanksgiving with the same stuff!!
CLimbing all over the stack of pumpkins at Albertson's was hilarious and I think we pissed off every other person there trying to decide which ones we wanted. Especially the old lady I tried to steal a pumpkin from...how was I supposed to know that one was hers..it didn't have her name on it...it was just sitting there...I was tempted to just take it anyways and run, afterall she was like 75--I could have taken her. The only thing stopping me was some rent-a-cop posted at the door. (I could have out ran him though too...) A cop...at albertson's...yeah, sure, that's not a waste of police budget. We had a good time...found three perfect pumpkins (our scale of roundness...stem...size giving us pretty high scores) 56 pounds of pumpkins later I was just trying not to wet my pants from laughing so much!

Our house looks so cute. I still want to get a couple bails of hay for our front, maybe a corn-stalk...some little scarecrow! So cute. Afterall the fam is coming down for Turkey day (our first as hosts in our own house!) so we're excited to show off the new house.

When I was little I loved Christmas so dang much I couldn't quite handle it. I turned into a royal shit about December 1 in anticipation for the holiday. My parents always thought it was because I didn't open presents for nearly 12 months...with my bday in early January I had to wait until Dec 25 to get gifts again.

I'm now thinking that had little to do with it. I love the festivities of all holidays. Christmas was just the only one we really celebrated. I mean, I love to go all out. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patty's Day, Easter, 4th of July (now that one's really my favorite) but I'm talking decorations, traditions, food, family, fun. That's what the holiday's are all about anyways, right? So I say embrace it. Do it. Celebrate.