Pumpkins!

Carving pumpkins is one of Robert's favorite things about the fall. I love it too, but not quite the same. He gets online and tries to find the coolest pumpkin. He always starts out too ambitious and realizes that he doesn't have the tools or that it would take way too long and is way too complicated. This year, he did the Batman. Nate has the mini pumpkin (it was supposed to be the Transformers logo, but Robert couldn't make it work in such a small area), and I have the happy pumpkin. My mom also gave us the gourd from her garden and we decided to paint it up like a ghost.

Robert and Nate posing for the picture once all the pumpkins had been carved.
Nate is such a ham when it comes to the camera. Recently we bought a video camera and whenever we pull it out to try to get Nate doing all his cute stuff spontaneously he runs up as close as he can get and just yells over and over, "Nate's picture! Nate's picture!" So when I asked him to hold his pumpkin and smile he was more than compliant.


Here it is, Robert pouring over his pumpkin. I have finished mine and was halfway done with the gourd before Robert had decided how to tackle his Batman.

We love this season. We love the holidays and we love the weather. The weather is perfect for running, the air is clean and crisp and we can start layering all of our clothes and pull out all the sweaters and hats and scarves and boots. Robert and Nate love Halloween the most, I think (stay tuned for the costume and trick-or-treating fun). After Halloween hits, Robert's birthday hits, then Thanksgiving, then my birthday, then Christmas, then New Year's. It's all downhill from here!