frightfully fun...

we're having a wonderful time preparing for our party tomorrow night. it is a neighborhood tradition to gather at our home and carve pumpkins...we started this in 2003 and we've missed only one year. so hard to believe we're hosting our fifth event - where does the time go?

the boys had fun decorating the barbed wire tree

time to get out the "candle stabbers" i bought several years ago from a local crafter...i've used these in artichokes as well; simply beautiful.

a little autumn piece that i love, by the photo of my younger son, now 7...

i didn't think i liked mums, but the vibrant orange caught my eye this year