happy halloween, y’all!

happy halloween from texas!

here are our night time glow-in-the-dark jack o’lanterns!

hope everyone has a great one filled with way too much candy!
we love everyone!

a skelly in my closet…

just as a note:
i have this rather grim skeleton on my storm door (jasper calls him “the meany skewaton [skeleton]“) and he is fun, no?
well, yes, he is but he keeps making me jump up in the air like a cat sprayed with water!!!!

almost every time i come around the corner, i see him out [...]

orange and white jack o’ lanterns!!

we finally got around to carving our pumpkins and we made quite the night of it!
jasper lilith was very involved but it was much easier this year because she could actually help out – yay!

here is jasper gutting her little ghost pumpkin that she picked out herself…
you can tell by the look on her face [...]

like father, like daughter…

jon had an old laptop sitting around and he finally set it up so that jasper could play games on it!
jasper took to it like an old pro and before you know it, she was using the mouse and operating the laptop like nobodies business!

two peas in a pod!
wow, look at that…

jasper is playing a [...]

a parade of princesses, pirates and eeyore…

jasper’s school put on a costume parade for all the parents friday morning…
boy, was jasper excited to be going to school in her princess outfit!
(and there was a surplus of princesses, pirates and superheroes, let me tell you!)
it was funny, all the kids were running around their classrooms waiting desperately for the parade but when [...]

boo at the zoo…

jasper lilith has been counting the days until the fort worth boo at the zoo event – literally…
we had a calender and she would ask what day it was and i would tell her and then we would count how many days were left until boo at the zoo – it was a daily event [...]

and her costume is??!!

a princess!
she couldn’t decide between a witch and a princess but the tiara and the wand tipped the balance!
she has been so excited to wear her costume!
“is today boo at zoo?  can i weah my pwincess costume now?  with my wand?”
and finally the day arrived

as i slid the costume [...]

the peppery product…

our house still smells of peppers!!  good thing it is a yummy smell

jars of pepper sauce sitting pretty in the window…
now we just have to wait a couple of months to try them out…

habenero peppers in the air…

jon harvested all of his peppers yesterday and today is trying to figure out what to do with them all!
right now, he is in the processing of toasting the peppers to intensify the flavor a little bit and then i guess he will go from there

they are pretty, aren’t they?

these are tobasco peppers [...]

digging in the mud…

jon and jasper are getting a late start to our fall garden…
here are some pictures of the two of them digging in the mud yesterday!

all day, jasper kept asking, “ah we weady to gahden yet, daddy?”  “daddy, i think itz time to go gahden now?”

dig, dig, dig!

arnetta, no doubt that those rain boots  have come [...]