happy halloween!

oh, once i had a pumpkin...

a pumpkin, a pumpkin.
oh, once i had a pumpkin with no face at all.
with no eyes, and and no mouth, and no nose and no teeth.
oh, once i had a pumpkin with no face at all.

so, i made a jack-o-lantern, a jack-o-lantern, a jack-o-lantern.
so, i made a jack-o-lantern......

yeah, i've never heard that song either, and i have no idea how it ends. but, william was all out singing it while he and his daddy were carving their jack-o-lantern a few nights ago. he couldn't remember how it ended either. that's pretty much the way it is with everything he learns at school or church.

oh well, at least we had some musical accompaniment to the mess that was being made.


and for the amount of un-artistic and un-creative abilities that are piled up in this house, i'd say that the finished product turned out pretty well!

pumpkin pickin'

this weekend, we loaded up and drove to blue mountain to check out their pumpkin patch. i was a little skeptical driving 45 minutes to get a pumpkin when the buffalo park has pumpkins (and it's only 30 seconds from our house). but, now i'm a believer in blue mountain. they had jumpy things, a race track, train rides, hay rides, goats, pony rides, and pumpkins. it was definitely worth the 45 minutes it took to get there.



wes trying out the haytona speedway...


riding the train with kakki...


petting the horses and goats (and according to wes' reaction, i am going to have to get a pet goat)...


jumping in the barn...


picking out pumpkins...


excited about our pumpkins on the tractor ride back to the car...

i can say with certainty that blue mountain pumpkin patch will become a yearly thing for us. but, we'll at least wave to the buffaloes when we pass them!

i could just eat him up

i always thought we needed some livestock in our yard

today, we finally got around to putting some pumpkins out on our front porch. william has been asking when we were going to get some pumpkins, so he was very excited to put them out.

william: "i like our pumpkins. now we need some of that other stuff to put in our yard."

me: "what other stuff?" (hoping that he didn't mean an upside down witch in the tree like one of our neighbors)

william: "well, we got pumpkins. so now we need a black kitty cat and a goat."

me: "a goat? why do we need a goat?"

william: "because he is white, and he flies in the air. and he says ooooooooooooo."

perfect reasoning. and, you gotta admit that halloween decorations would be so much cooler if people put out pumpkins and goats.

and then we won a game!!

we headed to starkville again on saturday to cheer on the bulldogs. we played #13 vandy, and we came out with a win. despite a 4 yard punt by our punter. you read that right...4 yards. 4. as in 1, 2, 3...4!! (see previous post if you want a rant on the punting situation at msu.)

as we got to campus, it was almost time for the player walk through, so we headed over to the junction to find anthony dixon and bully.


we tailgated with a different group this weekend. we jumped in with some tupelo bulldogs (thanks, y'all!), and it was great. there were lots of kiddos playing in and around our tent. i'm not even sure who half of them were, but it didn't matter at all!

i have no idea what this game is called, but it is apparently loads of fun. mont had to teach william how to play it.


then he got some solid practice time in...


before teaching his buddy, ford, how to play.


then they took a break for some capri-suns! we're so glad you came, ford!


anyway, as soon as the game started, the clouds hid the sun, a breeze showed up, and we got some popcorn.


add one in the W column, and you can't get many saturdays better than that!

daddy is #1

yesterday was chase's birthday. william has been talking about making him a cake for several weeks now. so, on friday we went to kroger to get cake stuff. i told him that he could pick out three things for the cake. his choices were sprinkles, stars and diego faces. exactly what chase would have picked out himself.

i asked him what we should write on the cake, and he said, "daddy is 1." i assumed that he meant daddy is #1, so that's what we went with.

the master at work...


showing off the finished product...

happy birthday, daddy! we love you!