Pumpkin Patch

On Saturday we went to the pumpkin patch to see what we could find.  Abigail was overwhelmed to see all of the pumpkins.  She has this look on her face like she is thinking "what are all of the pumpkins doing on the ground...there are SOOOO many!"  She picked a cute little pumpkin to take home and call her own.  BTW  she hasn't looked at or touched it since she got it into the house :) 

The terrain was pretty rough with all of the dirt mounds which made for a difficult play area for Abby.  Here we are picking the stickers out of her little hand.  She took off running and fell right into a big patch of them.  Some of them were pretty deep so there was a little blood involved.  "Mom, I bleeded, I'm gonna die, I'm dying Mom!" Were her words.  What a funny kid with a crack up sense of humor.

...and yes, that is a cordless house phone(Abby's play phone) in my back pocket.  Abigail insisted it come along in the car with us so she could call all of her friends on the way.  I didn't know it made it to the patch until we were too far away from the car to take it back.  I am sure people thought I was a loon carrying that thing around at a pumpkin patch :)

COOKIES and THIEVES

Here is Abs this afternoon with her second adorable cookie face.  It's like she eats the cookie so fast she has to get messy or something.  FUNNY!  

side note:  Last night I went to shop for fall decor sales Roberts Craft.  I found some great stuff which compliments my mantel nicely.  The other thing I am 99% sure I witnesses was a shoplifter.  I totally saw this girl looking at birthday candles and she had a pack of them in her hand when I walked by the aisle.  By the time I got to the other end of the aisle, she was sticking something in her pocket and nervously looking around.  Now I can't be sure it was the candles that she put in her pocket but when we went to check out, she was in front of us with her mother who was paying for several items.  She walked out of the store with a pretty bulging back pocket.  Who steals birthday candles anyway....they are like a buck!  

COOKIES!

We Made Chocolate Chip Cranberry cookies today.  I won the pre-packaged mix at Bunco last month so I decided that today was the day to try it out.  The mixes are from the Prepared Pantry here in Idaho Falls.   I think it is in Idaho Falls?  I am not really sure if it is here, or in Shelley.  Regardless of where the place is, the mix was fabulous!  I was hesitant about the cranberries being in there, but oh man, it was nice to have such a different flavor mixed in there.  Here is a shot of Abigail enjoying her fresh baked cookie this afternoon.  I am not sure that we even posted a picture of her doorway playhouse that she got for her birthday.  She loves that thing because the doorbell rings.   She was pretending to go into her house and bake some cookies of her own.  

A little side note:  Bedtime has been difficult this month because Abby wants to be with us in our room.  I can't imagine why, with the Tempurpedic being fabulously comfortable and all :)  I kept taking her to her room and finally thought of a fun little thing to keep her occupied.  I told her to invite her babies to story time, help them say their prayers and tuck them into bed.  I left her up there to do her thing and heard her on the monitor actually reading them her color and animal book.  It was so stinkin' cute.  I went up there to tuck her in and she had her babies (mr. bumblebee, mr. penguin, dolly, puppy and teddy) lined up and tucked in.  I told her it was time for bed and she said " Mom, we haven't finished our story yet"   I sat in the rocking chair across the room so I could watch her finish reading to her babies and then tucked her in.  I went downstairs and went to bed.  Steve was still up doing homework.  After all that, she still ended up in our bed around 12:00 because she was screaming about a monster in her closet.  I guess that is what we get for letting her watch Monsters inc.  It is no longer her favorite movie, she has moved onto The Little Mermaid!

BLIZZARD!

Here is a shot of what it looked like outside this morning.  Last night we were out with some cousins and ended up having to drive home in a BLIZZARD!  It is getting pretty cold outside, thankfully tomorrow is supposed to be a little more sunny.  It's funny to me how the weather changes so quickly.  Just a few days ago, I posted a picture of Abs playing out in the leaves :)

WE ARE PROUD!

We are the proud new owners of an iMac!  It is fabulous, I have been playing with it all day off and on.  The truth is it took me an hour to figure out how to add my own profile.  Let's just say they are a tiny bit different then the PCs I have used my whole life.  Steve needed a more reliable computer for art school so I gave into his pleadings.  I am really glad I did because I love this thing.  It is really, really nice!

Winter or Fall?

I took Abby outside tonight to get some energy out.  I wasn't sure after the 10 minutes of SNOW today WEATHER it was fall or winter out.  The high today was like 40 something.  GOOD GRIEF it was a very chilly evening but we had fun none the less.  It was fun to play in the leaves and to watch Abs having a good time out of doors.