Pumpkins and Pictures
Happy two days before Friday!
Don't forget the contest this week. For a chance to win a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card, your name in a future book, and a copy of I'm So Sure, read the directions on Monday's post. I am LOVING your suggestions for fake football teams. Some have made me laugh. But I've written a few of them down as contenders for the book. You all are so creative and clever. Or you're avoiding real work. Which is a completely honorable pastime.
Have you seen this YouTube video? I feel the same way about my reflection in the mirror some days.
Or what about this dog. I love his reaction when his owner comes home from military service.
That's so sweet. If I returned home after six months, Miller would be like, “You don't look the least bit familiar.”
You know, I never did share my Halloween pics with you. I went with my family to a local pumpkin patch. I didn't get to go last year, and I was more than a little bummed. So this year, I made sure I was present and accounted for. Here's my family walking through the mostly-picked-over patch.
Here is my mom and I posing with the museum-quality artwork.
I don't know why I had to be the cow.
I found an albino pumpkin.
I so relate to its pasty whiteness.
Here's my nephew ready to enter the mighty hay tunnel.
Behold its vastness.
Shrek pretty much scared the crap out of my niece. He almost ruined the hayride for me her.
The kids on the hayride. (After we assured her Shrek would not be riding along.)
Look how fondly my niece looks at her brother. I don't think I ever did that.
My niece and nephew in their costumes.
He's a hunter. And she's not.
My stepdad's carving skills.
I call it “A Gourd Interpretation on How I Feel About Vegetables.”
On my way home that night, I got behind these folks.
I guess this is what you do when you don't have a trailer for a hay ride. Or maybe they just didn't want their hair messed up.
Finally, this has nothing to do with Halloween, but I walked by a group of kids in my classroom and found this.
Oh, the youth of today. Why do classwork when you can play hangman and warn others about the evils of unicorns?
Have a great rest of the week. Keep those team names coming!
JEN
