Is It Fall or Summer?

Is it still summer? My calendar says Fall, but the temperature says Summer - sheesh! It was pretty warm out this weekend - 84 degrees. Ewww...



I am confident by the end of this week we will be out of shorts - FINALLY! Just in time to visit the pumpkin patch with my family, without bees!



This weekend, we visited a local stop in our town to get our carving pumpkins. We have an annual night that my parents and brother come over for a chili supper, and we carve pumpkins for display on Halloween night. It's usually a couple days before the holiday, but we like to get the pumpkins early to decorate the porch etc.

The place that we go to buy them is actually someones home in which they set up a stand in their driveway with veggies and pumpkins that they've grown on their farm. It is by far the most inexpensive place we've been able to find pumpkins each year - it proves how much mark-up these little Country Markets put on theirs. This coming weekend, we will make our annual trip to the very popular Stonycreek Farm with my in laws so that the kids can walk through the pumpkin patch and choose one themselves. We love that day with the grandparents, and have been doing it since Carter was a baby.

Here's some photos from the weekend activities!

This is a shot of the road in town that we take to get our pumpkins. It looked so pretty with the leaves and sunlight that I had to snap one!



Here's a little area where the pumpkins are in the driveway of this home. Pumpkins start at $2.00 for a decent carving sized one! They have some really interesting varieties of pumpkins as well. You can see Olivia in her hot pink shorts at the top. The color hot pink, shorts and short sleeve shirts just don't scream "It's Fall" to me.... The pumpkins sure did though!



This is still not something I'm quite used to, even after all these years of living in the Midwest. Where I grew up on the East Coast, you might not want to leave your bicycle on your front porch if you want it still there when you come back out to play - if you know what I'm saying. But here? The honor system... gotta love the country...



So, my kids don't like caramel apples, but 'tis the season, so I had to make some anyway!

Here's my ingredients (ohhhhh, challenging!)



And the end result....



Can't forget to show The Boy's second year in Scouting. He's a Wolf this year... here he is proudly showing off his new colors. Boy Scout Popcorn sales have begun, so we've been pounding the pavement this weekend filling up his order form. Our community set the bar pretty high - Zionsville was #1 in the nation last year for Popcorn Sales. Our little town!!