Sunday, the kids and I gathered up all of our homegrown pumpkins and tossed them into the pasture for the goats and the donkeys. I gotta say, the kids and I (Little Man is too vertically challenged so he can’t even begin to reach the top of the fenced pasture but he rocks at handing us pumpkins) had a blast tossing these and watching them explode. With the cold nighttime temps, these pumpkins had frozen and thawed several times so they were ready to meet their maker, as they’d begun to rot. It’s pretty gross to pick up a mushy pumpkin. Even though fall is my favorite season and I love the decorations, rotting pumpkins makes it super easy to say, until we meet again!
The girls helped me decorate the tree and even though it’s the tallest tree we’ve ever had, it isn’t the fullest. We used only about 2/3 of our ornaments. The tree still looks great with ornaments that the girls have made in school over the years, first Christmas ornaments and personalized ones too, just to describe some of them. I love seeing trees decorated with nostalgic meaning. The topper, Rudolph, made during Little Lady’s Kindergarten year, is one of my absolute favorites and will be the tree topper in our home as long as she’ll let me use it. During our decorating, Little Man chose to test the needles on the tree and kept whacking it as he went running by. Not only is that annoying, but makes placing ornaments risky at times. Good thing toddlers are cute. Ha.
The tree topper.
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