Halloween/Fall Week

This week I felt very festive, and one of things that makes me feel alive in life is being festive in the seasons and holidays of each year. This last week I baked 3 pumpkin pies. It was slightly experimental because I used half crisco and half coconut oil for the crust. This happened because I didn't have enough crisco but next time it will all be coconut oil. It was delicious! Grant also discovered that he likes pumpkin pie too! Good. He better because it is Perry's and my favorite pie so it is only proper that he like it too, right? Just kidding, we don't force our opinions on Grant but it is nice to know he likes it too. Plus its really not that bad for you when I cut the sugar in half.
   We have also been admiring the fall colors as of late. I want to remember to look at the beautiful trees as often as possible before the leaves die and fall off the trees.  Our neighbors also gave us a ton of walnuts to crack open. It will be a lot of work but we don't eat walnuts often so I think the amount we will accumulate with last us a while in the freezer and then just add chopped walnuts here and there to recipes I enjoy. Its also getting to that point in the year where I can store my big winco bag of flour that I bought last year outside again. I will only buy the big 50 lb bag if it is freezing outside so that it doesn't go bad. We don't have enough freezer space for it inside yet and I use flour so often I don't want to run out every week.
  Also this weekend on Friday I carved a pumpkin with Grant's help. Its our monster face pumpkin. We baked the seeds and ate them, and Grant painted another pumpkin. We did all this while listening to a strings version of "The Night Before Christmas", "This is Halloween".
  Saturday we went over to Country Fest in Payson. We enjoyed the tractor hay ride, the petting farm, balloons, roping pretend cows, lawn mower races, and corn maze.  Unfortunately I'm not sure where I put my camera so there are no photos of these adventures. But the nice thing about that was that we just purely enjoyed the time as a family without worrying about getting enough "memories" on camera. Sometimes you don't truly get to experience things when a camera is always clicking or taking video. Happy October! We will report on our little Toddler Halloween party after next week: Yet another thing to be festive. I just love Halloween time and Autumn. We will probably throw a little party every year. This year its more for me, next year Grant may understand the concept of Ghosts and monsters.