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Why, Helloooo!

Halloween has come and gone and I would say it was another successful holiday!

This year Jack went as a 1920s gangster. I don’t know why or how he thought it up. But, he planned it from top to bottom and absolutely loved his costume!

Jason and Jack carved pumpkins.

Jack worked on his own this year. Just a helpful hint: eat lunch before carving, not while carving. Jack’s lunch was ready for him right after he started carving. He couldn’t eat. The “guts” made him lose his appetite. Especially since Jason’s guts which were a little rotten. (ew)

Sam mowed while the pumpkins were being carved.Pumpkin smells and guts are not a favorite of Sam’s. You may think he is giving the boys a thumbs up for the amazing carved decorations they are creating with their pumpkins. Well, you are correct. It has nothing to do with him hitting the side of the fountain and telling his dad all was good still.

Jack’s finished pumpkin. Notice he has a mustache and a little top hat!

Jack placed his creation in the flower urn which was perfect for angling his face!

What a welcoming front porch!  (smile)

Wonder how long these guys will last until something decides to eat them!

PS: Sam did come into the garage after mowing lawn. He stayed as far away from the mess as possible. He got inside with only one gag!

I am very proud of him! Every year he gets a little better with the whole pumpkin carving event!

Here’s Jack before heading out to trick or treat. He slicked his hair back to look even more “gansta” (his hat is on the pmpking)  But, I’m not sure the AK Nerf gun helped the outfit…along with a computer bag of all his treats!

People asked if Jack if he was the Monopoly man, or a poker dealer, or part of a quartet!

Since Trick or Treat was on a Sunday night, Jack had to get ready for school and bed when we got home. He didn’t get to do the fun sorting of the candy.

Doesn’t seem to have stopped Jason from checking out all the loot though!

Velcome Back!

Halloween is just around the corner and Jack is in full swing of it all! He has his costume all ready, loves trying to scare us and even is enjoying a few Halloween movies (and not getting up in the middle of the night!)

Stay with me for the rest of the story..need to give you some background!

There is a trend out there right now with LARGE knitting.

In order to achieve this blanket, you need LARGE knitting needles and LARGE yarn!

I saw this yarn at a local store and thought it would be fun to use as a bow/ribbon on a gift. NOT. It’s WAY to large. So it has sat on my desk.

Until Jack found a Halloween use for it…

Well, glad that it hasn’t gone to waste! So much for being inspired in a crafty manner with the yarn. And I think Jason and Jack need to stop watching so many scary movies…

PS…you see I said Jason and Jack about the movies. Sam and I don’t do scary movies. Unfortunately, Sam went over to a friends house Saturday night and they (the girls) decided to watch a scary movie…a really creepy movie. He excused himself and went outside to text Jason and I…“What am I suppose to do? I can’t stay outside for two hours!”  Well, after giving him several options, he went back inside and watched the movie with his eyes shut. (Come to find out, he wasn’t the only person that wasn’t too happy about watching a scary movie…funny though, it was all the boys that were more scared!!)

When I picked Sam up, first words out of his mouth, “Well, there goes my sleep for the next month!”  Which really means: I will be downstairs waking you up with each noise I hear until I fall sound asleep and if I do wake up, I will let you know that I am awake by texting you until you answer and if you don’t answer, I will stand by your bed until you wake up in start screaming “SAM WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” and then I will run out of the room then right back in, because it is too scary to run upstairs alone.

Which, is exactly what happened. At 1:52 am Sunday morning. One night down, many more to go.

Good Morning!

Guess what I need to do today and tomorrow and the next day?
First, I must mention this is what the driveway looks like only 24 hours after blowing leaves.

I guess this is one draw back from living up against the woods. You just cannot keep up with the falling leaves!

When I took Sam to school in morning, the leaves were actually falling around us. Sam stated, “It really is Fall!”

Notice how clean the driveway is where the wind blows. Somehow I need to tunnel that wind to go down by our garage.

Can you spot Jack on the right side of the picture? He is checking out his half eaten pumpkin form yesterday’s post.

Then, he decided to see how any rocks he can throw into the pumpkin!

Because what else should you do with a squirrel eaten pumpkin in a wanna-be Good Housekeeping set up?

Hello!

This weekend I did yard work. I don’t like yard work. But, Jack and I had gone to the pumpkin patch and I was excited to display our pumpkins.

I thought a pumpkin in a wagon with a fun old screen window in the background would be a good Good Housekeeping set up. So, I placed my pumpkin into the wagon with intentions of adding more…once I figured that out.

I came out the next morning, yea it takes me awhile to decide how I want to decorate, but as you can see, someone or something beat me to it.
Jason kept asking, what do you think did that??? A racoon?
I said I believed it to be a simple squirrel or maybe our local ground hog. (So much for trying to hot glue the pumpkin stem back on…yea, I was going to do that.)

Anyway, I came back outside one hour later to go to Jack’s football game and noticed whatever it was that was/is eating the pumpkin, came back back to finish the carving. Hmmm…doesn’t like the seeds.

I must share that we’ve never had pumpkin issues in the 7 years that we have lived here. Also, of course, this was Jack’s favorite pumpkin. Imagine that. Good thing we have 4 more, but I think I will wait to place them in the wagon scene again.

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So, every once in a while I must remind my boys of personal hygiene. Brush your teeth, deodorant, wash your face and cut your nails. All 20 of your nails.

The other day I looked down and noticed Jack’s nails were on the verge of breaking the Guinness Book of World Records in the area of length. Oh. my. word. DUDE!! You need to cut those toenails!!

More aghast! BUDDY!! Your big toenail looks like a pointed vampire fang!! You need to fix that before it cuts through your socks!!

(Too late)

Later that evening, I asked Jack if he cut his toenails and fixed that big one.
“Yep!”
I looked at his toenails. Are. You Kidding. Me.
“JACK!”
“What? I did fix it! I made it even sharper by filing it with one of those files you have.”

What more can I say?

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I asked Sam to throw his football pants into the laundry. I went downstairs, I found that he had thrown his pants into the laundry.

And that was it.

Jeepers, kid.

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On Sunday, Jack had a flag football game and I finally took my camera to catch some photos! It was only 71 degrees…beautiful!! But, there was no breeze and the sun was baking, so it was actually hot watching the game, but no complaints! Next week we could be wearing parkas!

Anyway, Jack had a few highlights during the game and I actually caught one on camera!

He and his good buddy are heading into the huddle.

Jason calls the play. He always ends it with “Jack, (or whomever the play is called for) you’ll get the ball and score a touchdown.” The kids love that, especially when TD really happens!

Hike!

Jack goes out for the pass.

he catches it!!

He starts to take off.

He then turns on his “guns!”

And scores a touchdown!! (He scored two this day!)

He then had to sit on the sidelines with the other coach because he thought he was going to throw up!

That’s my boy!

Hello!

So Jack came home from school the other day and decided to tell me all the things that will happen in four years.

1. Jack will be a freshman in high school or the age Sam is now.
2.  I will be 50 years old. ( or 29)
3. Sam will be a Freshman in college.
4. Jason will be 50 years old.
5. The summer Olympics will be on again.
6. Jack will be able to drive with a permit.
7. Sam will be an official adult.
8. and I will have a mental breakdown because time goes by way too fast!
   (jack said I shouldn’t write that one down…not very positive.)

Have you thought about what it will be like in your life in 4 years?

Have a good day thinking about that!