Pumpkin Days

Can you believe how festive we have been this month? The pictures above are of Bren being cute in a hardhat with a pear while Kwint was building a racing pumpkin for the 1st annual Green Valley 5th ward "Pumpkin Derby" (pictured next with Kaeleb at the derby), Kaeleb's preschool Halloween party, the boys "helping" me make pumpkin cookies (my personal favorite), and Kaeleb decorating a scary cat cookie. Ah, the simple joys of life.

We'll post more on Halloween tomorrow, after which we will get serious about celebrating Thanksgiving for the next month.... yikes, can you imagine? Ok, so we'll focus on gratitude and pilgrims, not so much on pumpkin pie and candied yams.

Pre-Halloween Fun

We are soooo loving this beautiful month of October. As you can see, we LARPed at a masquerade ball, spent the day at a corn maze, made gingerbread haunted houses and had a really great time at Dan and Dee's annual Halloween party. We didn't get pictures at the party, so if Dan and Dee don't mind, you can see us all by clicking on the Jacobs Family link. Everyone looks pretty good if you ask me!!

I truly wish I could elaborate, but my boys are playing with the plunger, software CD's, and otherwise destroying our home. If you wonder why I never keep in touch and rarely get a good blog in these days.... wonder no more. They take everything I've got.

Now it actually feels like fall...

It finally cooled down!! For real, not just to 85! We have been giddy with excitement. We even wore jackets twice! To celebrate, we added a little corner of Boo-ness to our front porch. It will be 85 again this weekend, of course, but after that we may actually have a little time in the 70's. Woo Hoo!

I have missed so much blogging and a lot has happened in our crazy busy lives, and it would take way too long to blog it all, so I will just pick it up from now.... (besides, I can't remember what happened 5 minutes ago.)

Kaeleb LOVES preschool. His teacher, Miss Mary, is fabulous. He says "She is a very tall guy." She's got to be 6 feet tall, and is very pretty. They are working on alphabet books and learning about pumpkins this month. He comes home singing songs and teaches me new things every day.

Kaeleb is becoming a good little bike rider. He is very cautious, so we are excited to see him riding his bike to his friends houses and such. As you can see form the pictures above he is getting ready to be Luke Skywalker for Halloween. More pics will follow.

Brennan is hilarious. He is saying lots of words now. He loves our light up Jack-o-lanterns. He calls them "Dack" and says "yat" (light) and "off" when he wants me to plug them in. He is loudly proclaiming things "Mine!" and says "Don't!". He also says "more" and "done", which has really helped me out at meal time.

Bren is still not a great sleeper. He did sleep through the night for a month or so but no more. We have been experimenting to try and figure out what the problem is, but mostly, I think he just wants some extra lovin'. We are sooo tired but have come to accept our lot and love him all the more for it. (That's not what we say at 11pm 2,3, and 4 am though, believe me.)

Kwint and I are busy as ever in our respective roles. We had some trouble with both cars this week which resulted in a new battery and 5 new tires. Sheesh!! But we had a couple little miracles happen to offset it.... First, our fried computer (remember a few weeks ago?) started working again. Kaeleb said a prayer and the Lord listened. Then our dryer went on the fritz, and I prayed- "PLEASE! We can't have everything at once! Please make my dryer work again!" What do you know, He did.

The kids are self-destructing. I think they need food.