Fall!

This is going to be a GREAT week! The kids have UEA (Utah Educators . . . . um . . . I don't know - we used to just call it the Deer Hunt) and have school off and we will using that vacation to unpack. Yes, we will FINALLY close on our house on Wednesday!! YAY!!

Fall is here and we have been taking advantage of it. Driving up the canyon to see the changing leaves, picking apples and pumpkins, eating chili and apple crisp etc. These are a few of my favorite things - fall edition: The kids eating a donut off a string at the fall carnival at school, that was big back in the day!

Picking out a homegrown pumpkin from my dads garden.

We used to come home from school and sell pumpkins in front of our house.

Picking apples. . .

Hiding in the corn stalks:

Seeing how many people, pumpkins, bushels of apples, bags and jars of jam we can fit in one Mini:

And pine nut stands everywhere! I love pine nuts and have missed having them in the fall. There are about 100 more stands around town then there used to be - not that I'm complaining mind you.

Now we just need to get into our house so we can set up shop and get nestled in for the approaching winter.

The Big Bash

Last Saturday was the big party/fiesta of Jon turning 40 and Collin turning a bonified teen. Jon wanted a taco cart with five different meats, 2 pinatas, lot's of cold drinks and as many people as we could get there. I added 4 cakes (which no one got pictures of :( from The Chocolate) and sent out the invitations. We had a blast. (I know this will come as no surprise, but the lack of pictures is because my memory card was full - it wasn't my battery dying this time!)

I think this is Jon's first plate of maybe 4? Tongue, buche, and other cuts/parts of pork:

Lot's of girls for Grace to play with:

And some of the guys hanging:

People ate till they were stuffed and we still came home with about 10 lbs of meat and taco fixings and almost 2 full cakes. These are the taco helpers and eaters:

Then pinata time. I love this picture of Jon's mom Sue cheering him on in the background:

I love the kids faces in this one:

We had a great time and hope everyone else did too. I'm already starting to think about Jon's 50th! Maybe a BBQ. . . I'll think on that while I eat some cake. MMMmmmmmm.