Outdoor Decorations

Thought I would share a couple of pictures of what the front of our house looks like decorated for fall...not anything overly special. The houses here all pretty much look the same in the section we live in...so its what you put out that allows you to stand out a little more from your neighbors. Most of the time our yard is covered by the outdoor toys the boys think will be fun to play with for a the split second it takes them to drag it out...only to find something that entices them more.

Pictures of the new Ride

ETA: Got the photos up!! The color is a really pretty dark blue..not royal, but not navy either...

I have been trying to upload some pictures of the new van...but blogger isn't cooperating right now...so hopefully I will try later and have a little more success.

We received a letter today saying that we got yard of the month...for our section anyway and that we will receive a $25 gift card and are in the running for yard of the year. I will try to upload pictures of our yard later as well.

M is home sick form school today, he was running a low fever last night and complained that his head hurt and even took a nap and went to bed early...you know something is wrong when that happens! He is feeling better today, just has a headache..at least he says he does. He had a good day at school yesterday...his first field trip! They went to a local apple orchard and he got to bring home 3 apples and I guess he has a pumpkin at school they are going to paint up.

On Saturday afternoon the family meet up with J's coworkers at a pumpkin patch and went out picking pumpkins and going through a couple of corn mazes. We managed to come home with 3 standard size pumpkins and a giant 70 lb pumpkin that J got to carry. The boys enjoyed running around in the field and also in the maze trying to find their way out.

Home Again...

I have totally been a slacker to the blog...but we have had a really busy September with the mini vacation and getting back into the routine of being home once again. M is back at school and had school pictures yesterday, and once again lil' J is adjusting to having his afternoons all by himself.

We have been van shopping, as previously posted we were leaning towards getting something different for the little green machine (aka the Bravada). After a many long hours the past couple months researching on the Internet we were narrowing it down between the Toyota Sienna and the Honda Odyssey....more towards the Sienna due to the lower price....we spent another week tracking down the perfect van with all the features we wanted, price range we wanted to stay within and the miles that were acceptable. Well we had a breakthrough yesterday and found one and liked it....so we have a new addition to to the family...maybe I can get a picture of it soon to show everyone....it is a pretty blue!! So far we are enjoying all the van has to offer and the boys are so excited about it as well!