Pumpkins, cornstalks, ghosts, and more pumpkins

Last Saturday after sitting around for the first half of the day (well Lars and Ashton went grocery shopping I guess)...we decided to go get some pumpkins and cornstalks to start decorating a little for Halloween. I heard that Zollingers tree farm, about a mile away from us, had some of both. So off we went in the rain. We picked out a few pumpkins and a couple bunches of corn stalks as it started hailing on us! Then we went to the craft store and got a couple other decorations. Ashton is just SO into Halloween this year and comments on every pumpkin or decoration he sees, so I wanted to get a few things for our house that he could look at all the time. So we came home and put those things up, then I decided to make some ghosts to hang from our front lights...Ashton thought that was pretty fun too (and I think they turned out pretty cute!).

Then on Sunday we were pulling into the church parking lot and saw a truck full of pumpkins that someone was giving away for FREE!

Since we were amazingly a few minutes early we pulled over and Lars grabbed a few more including this GIANT one.

We even got some green ones. It was snowing that day when we got home to unload them! It was kind of a cold nasty weekend, but fun to get started decorating. Ashton loves the big pumpkin and thought it was pretty fun to try to stand on it, until it flipped over backward and flipped him off head first!

Luckily he barely caught himself with his hands before he cracked his head or teeth on the front step!!