Pumpkins, Fire Guys, And Crafts

     Welcome FALL! Its finally in Texas! Yay! We are totally in love with the weather here right now. Totally amazing. Its almost the end of October and its been 70-80 degrees everyday, and the nights are finally cooling off. It makes the park and outdoor activities so fun. Brodey and I go to the park everyday, and ride bikes. Love. Love. Love! This is the weather we've been waiting for since....arriving here.

     OK, this week for FHE we carved pumpkins. Brodey calls pumpkins, "chickens." Don't even ask me why? He can say pumpkin, but when he's lazy he just calls them chickens. Funniest thing ever. He loved it, but hated the pumpkins "guts" because they were "stinky, stinky!" I couldn't stop laughing. He wanted his pumpkin to have a happy face, and he wanted the other one to be a pirate. It took us 2 hours to carve 2 pumpkins but it was a blast. It was a memorable night.

they turned out cute right?

     We got church callings in our ward! Dayton and I are Webelos Scout Leaders. Fun right? I have absolutely no idea anything whatsoever about scouts. I told Dayton we got this calling because he hated scouts and never liked it as a kid. Thanks Dayton, this is payback for you. I was super skeptical, but I've had a blast the last 2 weeks. Brodey loves the boys, and thinks they are so cool. They are hilarious. I spend the whole hour laughing at them because of the things they say. October is fire safety month, so Wednesday we took the boys to the new fire station to take a tour and learn about their job. It was an amazing facility, and Brodey was in heaven. We hear the fire trucks go by our house about 2 times a day. Every time they do Brodey yells, "Fire truck! Fire Truck! Fire Guys!!!" So he was in heaven around all the cool "fire guys." They treated him extra special and even let him try on their clothes. He talked about it all night, and couldn't wait to tell everyone about it.

Our man wearing the fire clothes. He was in shock up there by himself

in front of all the Scouts!

     We are really starting to love it here. I am in love with the people of Texas. They are amazing, genuine people. I love the people of our ward. I love that we're starting to get settled into our cute house.

     Each holiday i wanna try and make a cute craft. My fall-ish craft was a dryer vent pumpkin. I made two of them. They cost around 5 dollars to make, and are adorable. I wish i would've taken step by step pictures, ...but...i didn't. Super easy. Buy a tin foil looking dryer vent. They come in tons of different sizes. Mine were both 5 feet. Pick a color of spray paint. (I chose an almond color, but you can choose whatever, orange, white.) Stretch them out, and spray them. Once they dry, hot glue the two ends together and hold it tell its dry. Touch up whatever spots you missed with the paint. Fill the hole with hot glue, and stuff with moss. I did mine a little bit more messy. Glue the moss good so it doesn't make everything around it messy. For the stem i used a cinnamon stick. Glue that good too...and Waaa-la! A cute simple craft that is adorable.