They say it's Fall..

For Field Trip Friday, we headed to an "Orchard" to pick our pumpkins with homeschooling friends in our ward. We are so glad the Hibbard kids can play with us during the week! Orchards in Vegas are nothing like the orchards in Spokane.. in fact, orchards here are a disgrace to orchards everywhere.

It was hot.. we walked around, picked pumpkins, paid for them and then went to Sonic for lunch. Oh how we miss Green Bluff and colored leaves, hay rides, corn mazes, train rides, bean bag throwing, and warm apple pie a la mode! Those were the days. But we only want to go up to Spokane for Sept/Oct. When the snow hits, we want to be back in Vegas. I guess you can't have it all.

On Saturday morning, we woke up to colder weather.. SO cold that we had to pull out our SWEATSHIRTS! Wahoo! Along with the cold weather came a 24 hour flu bug. Aaron was pretty sick on Saturday and couldn't do anything fun. Boo! After a day of sitting around, I went on a threesome date with Ben and Luke. It was mighty exciting. Ben was in charge of our agenda and Luke was the photographer. He took TOO many pictures on the drive. Most of them are blank, because the flash reflected off the window, but then again, he got a few good shots too.

We ended up going to The Dollar Store, Goodwill, Cafe Rio for dinner, and about 6 different Halloween stores. The only thing we purchased was a few items at the dollar store. Luke made sure to take a picture of it.. he managed to get our cashier (along with his finger) in the shot too. suh-weet! I took a quick video while we were in line. I asked the boys a simple math question that neither of them understood. Don't go and watch it, HERE. It's really not worth it.

My favorite moment of the evening was the conversation we had over dinner. It's been 16 hours since then, so I will try to document it the best I can remember:

Ben: Once when we were eating lunch at the Spokane Valley Mall, I opened a fortune cookie that said I would have a big family. (for those of you who know Ben, it's very typical for him to bring up something he heard or read YEARS earlier.)

Me: Really. Well, I hope to have a big family too.

Luke: Three kids isn't really a big family.

Me: I don't think so, either. Especially when I grew up with 9 brothers and sisters.

Ben: So why don't we have more kids?

Me: Well, we're trying really hard.

Luke: How to you TRY to have kids?

Me: Do you know how a woman gets pregnant?

Luke: (with his big brown eyes staring back at me) Don't YOU know?

Me: I do know. But I was wondering if YOU knew.

Ben: Well, I think I know. It starts out really tiny in the moms tummy and then it gets bigger and bigger until it can't live in her tummy any more.

Me: Do you know how it gets in the mom's tummy?

Ben: I think it's gross that a baby eats all it's mom's food while inside her tummy. The food is already chewed up and everything.

Luke: Doesn't the baby start in her head and then it goes down to her tummy?

Me: Nope. Not even close.

Ben: How come Dads never get babies in their tummies?

Me: Because a baby lives in a uterus inside the mom's tummy. It's a body part that only women have. Men don't have a uterus.

Luke: I get it! Boys have wieners and girls have uteruses.

Me: pretty much. But in order to have a baby, you need a mom AND a dad.

Ben: How come I saw on the news a girl who was 12 who was going to have a baby. And she wasn't married.

Me: Well, you don't have to be married to have a baby.

Luke: On Star Wars Clone Wars, Jabba the Hut had a baby, but it didn't have a mom.

Ben: Yeah, and Jabba was mad at Anakin Skywalker because he thought he stole the baby, but he and Asoka were really trying to help him get back to his dad.

And THAT is where the conversation ended. I wasn't going to take it any further, because they obviously didn't want to know. Aaron can take it from here :)

To follow in suit with my recent RANDOM posts, I am showing you a few home improvement pictures. A big thanks to Jenn who suggested that I spraypaint my dining room light fixture until I have the $ to buy the one I want. The spraypaint was $1.12 and it took me a couple of hours to do the project. The most entertaining thing about the whole process was making Ben and Luke hold the fixture while I wired it. Their arms were up in the air forever and they were SO mad at me. Good memories.


Oh, and this is these are our leather couches. I thought I already posted pictures of them, but I guess it was just on a video. We purchased these from an Ashley Furniture hookup who called himself the "Black Santa." He got us a killer deal and even though they aren't the EXACT couches we would pick out ourselves, we are happy with them (because they were cheap!)



The rug we was on clearance at Target.. Eventually these will go in our formal sitting area (where the red couch is) When we get a less formal set of couches for our TV room, these will go in our formal sitting area and the red couch will go upstairs in the loft. We're playing musical couches at our house. You should try it sometime, it's really a lot of FUN.