Lovin' Fall!

Fall is my favorite time of the year and I think Jackson has really been enjoying this fall as well. He loves looking at all the Halloween decorations and seeing pumpkins everywhere. He recently discovered the joy of running around and crunching leaves. I LOVE the sound of leaves crunching and have many fond memories of it from when I was little. I am sad that fall is almost over already!

Here are some pics of Jackson enjoying the leaves in our front yard.

Christmas Comes Early...otherwise known as...What happens when Momma is away

I went to an all day scrapbook event this past Saturday and about 2 hours in I received an odd message on my phone. It was a photo from Mark's phone...the first one he has ever sent me. I couldn't tell exactly what it was at first and then I figured out that it was a picture of a HUGE train table box in the back of our car. Mark took Jackson to Toys R Us and got him the Imaginarium Train Table. We had planned to get it for him for Christmas since he is completely in love with train tables right now and it's something he can grow with. Needless to say Jackson was in shock when they bought it and Mark took these hilarious pictures when they got home. I'm actually glad Mark bought it when I was gone because the thing took nearly 4 hours to put together!!!

Ummmm.....excited much??!!!

"Shake and Bake!!!!"

Halloween with Jackson has been really interesting. Like I mentioned before he LOVES everything about Halloween, and I know he's going to be so sad when the pumpkins and decorations come down. The costume part however was a different story.

Iowa does Trick or Treating the night before Halloween....I know, it's dumb....so on Thursday we started to get read to TorT around 6:30. I asked Jackson if he wanted to wear the puppy costume for Halloween and he said "No thanks Momma". I tried to talk it up but he wasn't going to budge. So Grammy Karen had given him a race car driver jumpsuit a few months back and I decided to ask him if he wanted to be a race car driver and he was excited about it.

So we got him ready and headed out to TorT. He LOOOVED seeing all the costumes, decorations and pumpkins but did NOT want to go up to the houses. I tried to explain to him that we go up and get treats but wanted nothing to do with that. I told Mark that Jackson simply couldn't be my son since he was turning down FREE CHOCOLATE!!!!. We went to a total of about 4 hours, including one of his buddies' houses, and got about 6 pieces of candy. TOTALLY WEAK! LOL I know I was the only one disappointed because Jackson could not have cared less about the treats, which is ODD for him. Last year he went door to door with no problem. It will be interesting to see how it goes next year.

We told everyone that Jackson was Ricky Bobby from "Talladega Nights". We got lots of laughs from that. Although Jackson would say "No I'm Jackson Hogge" every time we'd say he was Ricky Bobby. :)

Our weak Halloween loot. Boooo!

"Shake and Bake!!!"

"I like to go fast!"