{Fall flowers on the front door}- It's fall and that's my favorite season.
- Randy (12th) and Whitney (18th) both have birthdays this month!
- Halloween excitement builds all month (it's so nice that Halloween isn't until the very last day of the month).
- It means the holidays are coming and that summer is officially over (good riddance).
- School is in full swing and real life is back in session!
For Family Home Evening last night I was in charge in of the game, so I suggested we play "Sorry" or decorate the house for Halloween. The kids wanted to decorate, so it was a family affair with much excitement. Whitney was so excited she could hardly stay Earth-bound, she was literally jumping up and down (wearing 1 sock I might add). She wanted to do absolutely everything, including taking the decorative gourds ($5.99 at Costco) out of the sack!
Landon has been dying to hang up the yellow and black "Beware" tape because we didn't do it last year. I haven't been very keen on it (even though I bought it) so I suggested he hang it in the kids' room...jackpot! He said it looks like it says "Warebe."
Landon was also very excited and ended up "helping" Randy put a string of orange lights on our outside railing. He actually wanted me to take a picture of him!
It was so funny to listen to the kids as we were pulling out the decorations. They would say things like "Oh, yea we always put these over the window" or "Remember we hung this here last year." It was amusing to me that they're old enough now to remember previous years and to be attached to things. We don't really even have that many decorations because I only buy them when they go on clearance at the end of the season, but it's kind of amazing to see them accumulate as we celebrate our 4th Halloween in this house!
I wasn't as excited as the kids were, but I love these kind of changes in the house too.
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**Do you decorate for Halloween?
What's your favorite month?
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What's your favorite month?
Do you take pictures of your house?**
36 comments:
I love October, too. Sadly all of my Halloween (and Christmas for that matter) were shipped off to a storage unit after the holidays last year and now I don't have them. We were hoping to be in our new house by now, but we aren't.
Your house looks great and what a fun FHE.
October is definitely Great with a capital G! I love the cooler weather, the changing leaves, the feeling that the holidays are coming, and fast. (Well, I don't know that I love that feeling, but I do love the holidays.)
Lucas is badgering me to get out the Halloween decorations -- I just don't know if I can get to them in the garage! Love the photos of Whitney jumping for joy and Landon with the lights.
I love decorating for the holidays and get so excited for the fall.
I like how your fireplace looks.
I also love October. The leaves seem to hit their prime mid-month, and it's just so beautiful. I love the crisp air, and even our rain. I'm not too into the creepy side of Halloween, but I do pull out some fall/harvest decorations that I keep out through Thanksgiving.
Your house looks so festive! I love it when the kids get into the decorating, too.
It is my favorite month as well. The perfect month for a birthday!
I love OCT too! Best time - best weather - best colors! Your home looks fun and festive. I will have to post about my funny pumpkin soon.
Great photos of the littles!
fun to see the decorations, jill! i love when the girls get so excited and know "where" things go.
traditions are so important to them.
love your warebe tape! :)
oh and i love october but don't love the ghoulish side of the Halloween festivities. I have never been a huge fan of Halloween but I do like the fall decor and the cuter ghosts/goblins/black kittens/etc
i really love the fall/harvest decor
i do love this month and all the excitement that comes with it.
i promised my self not to decorate it until it was clean -almost there.
i think it is so great to take photos of homes decorated for the holidays it is such a memory for families.
Great memories for your kids. Your decorations are putting me into the October/fall fest mood. Great jar from IKEA full of gourds...warning though...take off the lid and air it out every now and then because they will mold and start to fog up the glass jar...I learned that lesson last fall!
Love October, it's so fun and cozy - especially with all the hot days previous. I think I start decorating in mid-sept, and finish by the end of October. I do it gradually, although, that's because we haven't been around in the fall to enjoy it. Anyway, great post and really cute picture of Whitney!
yes I decorate for Halloween last night. My daughter Emily helped me. It was a lot of fun!!! OH i so love this time of year :)
I had no idea you felt so strongly about October.
I do decorate for fall but not so much for Halloween (I don't love it).
I do take pictures of the house...
Love October here too! A slight chilly breeze blowing though my open windows makes for a perfect day (I don't want to leave home today because it's so nice in here)! I love the smell of fresh air.
I haven't taken pictures of my house before but agree with Kristi that the it will be a great reminder when memories have faded.
I love Halloween too. It's cute that the kids are so into and yes, doesn't it freak you out that they are old enough to remember past years? I love to see Whitney jumping (she's got to work on those quads somehow!) I especially love the orange lights because they are so festive. I am feeling VERY jealous that you get to have Fall and Halloween while I am experiencing springtime and rising temps! It's definitely my favorite time of the year.
I love fall, and I love to decorate the house! My girls have been asking for the decorations, but they are up in the attic and I am not so sure I want to mess with holiday decorating this year. It is amazing how quickly the kids get attached to it, so I am not sure if I am off the hook yet (I hate to dissapoint them).
Fall weather is the BEST!!
This post made me even more excited to get my things up and out. I bought some new things that I am excited to use. I love October also. I am so happy about summer being gone also.
My kids do the same things with their comments when we get out decorations for any holiday. It really is fun to listen to them talk. The best is when they find something they made that we have saved over the yrs. It makes them feel soo special!
We don't do Hallowe'en, but I totally love the Harvest season. We don't have too much to choose from in the shops for 'harvest', but the Hallowe'en stuff has started filling up the aisles.
I'm glad you've reached that point where the children are remembering the decorating traditions. That's so sweet.
I love the gourds too!
I love love love October and just the Fall.
My house is decorated for Halloween. Kira and I did it a few weeks ago. I love the FAll!
Well we don't decorate in full, I have a couple of things here and there...but last year...Jorvik broke 3 out of the 5 little clay pumpkins. I saw some cute things in Utah, but I think that I rather spend it on Christmas things. My favorite month...for what? I love spring, I think maybe May...it depends...I tend to associate it with what is going on socially. I often take pictures, although Hestia IS NO where to be found lately. What is up with that...I am amazed to see old pictures though and see all the arrangements I have done and I should try again
ps...e mail me, I think they are returning back....
I pulled out all of my stuff last week when I had a girls night at my house. I felt like I had no decorations, but now we are official in our house.
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays hence October is a great month! I would have to say that March/April are my favorites due to the crisp mornings and closer to summer weather.
What a fun FHE!
Warebe is so funny! Yes, we just got out the decorations and I realized they're mostly about fall rather than Halloween. Nothing too spooky. It's not my favorite holiday, but I do like this time of year
We are big into holiday decorating in my family. It's a big memory of mine - having fun decorations around the house for nearly every holiday. My favorite time to decorate is Halloween and fall. I'll post pics tomorrow. I like your decor.
I forgot to say I love the gourds in the jar. I need to do that. I always want to buy the bag of gourds but haven't let myself until I had a plan for them. That is a good one.
I love the decorations!
I love Fall too. But for some reason this year it is making me sad. Maybe because I am thinking about winter and that comes too soon and stays too long!
I love october too, even love the look of the word. Although we've done pumpkins and the kids pretty much have their costumes I haven't even thought about decorating for halloween. What's up with that? I guess it's time bring it all out (what little i have).
I love those big bags at costco.
Amen to the Good Riddance of summer! I love, love, love October. It's close enough to the holidays to begin anticipating but not stressing yet. Every year I dream that I'll get a jump on Christmas shopping, but I never do.
A lot of our decorations ended up in our kid's rooms, too! :)
I am over the moon about October.
Just got my goods out today! I am throwing a combined halloween birthday party for my kids on Saturday, so started to get things ready. When my tykes came home from school they were soo excited to see the halloween decor out and instantly started playing with it all afternoon!
I too love the fall time- it's so beautiful out here in the New England area. And I also enjoy spring too- a fresh new beginning.
I love fall & miss true fall desperately here in Arizona. The chill, the colors, the obvious changes. Love your front door flowers. I've never been much of a Halloween decorator, but I've actually made two decorative things this year. Crazy!
i came home from play practice sunday afternoon, and matty & the kids were doing up the front yard. (inside is MY domain...)
a woman walked by while we were outside, and told us that 2 nights before, some hoodlums (read: teenagers with too much time on their hands) had ransacked their yard and stolen about $250 worth of decorations. it just makes me sick!
the family looks like they're having a ton of fun!
We love the weather right now. What a great time of year! I could not believe when at a store last night that they were already decorated up for Christmas. I would like to enjoy Halloween and Thanksgiving first.Even though I have started my shopping already.
I love October, but wish this one would warm up just a little. Although today is a beautiful day, so far. We put our Halloween/fall decorations up Sunday. Kaitlin got such a kick out of it. It made it much more fun for me to put them out as she got excited about every little thing.
i love that you decorate for holidays- i barely get a tree up in time. i really love fall usually- this year feels different for some reason- i think i'm mourning the loss of time i had in the summer. :)
your house is great- i often think of the pictures i see of it when i am trying to decide what to do here. my wwjd? is what would jill do? :)
I like to decorate for Halloween, but I make myself wait till after Thanksgiving (this Monday for us).
I love October- it is the start of the holidays for me. I don't decorate for Halloween though- really only for Christmas.
Whitney is so cute- that is a great picture of her. And Landon- he is so handsome in that shot!
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