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All Things Fall

Here are some things that have been going on the past few weeks. I love fall!

Lots of outside time! The weather has been perfect except for the last couple of days have been too hot.

Halloween! Maddy had a Noah's Ark party at school on Tues. On Wednesday we did trunk or treat at a church by our house and went trick or treating in the neighborhood a little bit. Maddy walked for everything and carried her pumpkin basket the whole time, even when it started getting weighed down with candy. When she got to tired to walk we called it quits on the trick or treating.

With the beloved pumpkin. She would not let this pumpkin out of her sight or possession all day.


"Chocolate!" Yeah, she knows the good candy when she sees it.

Today, we made bird feeders.


Our pepper plants have been producing like crazy. Thus, to quarts of pickled refrigerator peppers.

Our front porch decorated for Halloween. The pumpkins have "mad faces" per Maddy request.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I love it! Great porch! Maddy looks adorable in her costume. Though we don't have a really dramatic changing of the seasons here, I'm seeing some orange and yellow on the trees and it's beautiful!
brittany
November 3, 2012 at 5:43 PM
bee said…
What kind of peppers? They look good, but don't look familiar. Looks like Maddy has sure been having FUN!
November 3, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Anonymous said…
I love fall too. Halloween is my favorite holiday, not for the scary stuff so much as just the fun costumes and candy. We've been doing trunk or treat instead of trick or treating the last couple of years because one of the churches in Clovis always has theirs on a Saturday night and the Mikali isn't up too late on a school night.

Love Maddy's butterfly costume!
November 5, 2012 at 10:41 AM
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