It's November????

Well, practically November? That seems impossible! This whole year is just flying by.

We've been busy lately with pretty much the same ol' things. Working, going to school, hanging out together and doing fun things when we can.

This past week, we carved a pumpkin (which I don't think turned out as neat as last year's!).

Pumpkin 2010

Pumpkin 2009

We've been burning our apple cider candle that we picked up at

Wal-Mart.

I've been debating how many pumpkin baked goods are too many (so far it's only been scones...I want to make muffins. And pumpkin bread. And pumpkin pie.)

We've been relishing the cool but not-to-cool weather which means NO AIR CONDITIONING and NO HEAT and LOW LOW LOW electricity bills (we're enjoying it while we can! :-).

We've been walking places instead of driving. The grocery store is totally walkable (in nice weather...for only a few items).

We hit up a corn maze eaaarly in the season so we wouldn't risk getting rained out like we did last year.

GORGEOUS day

And now that Halloween is (almost) over, I'm wondering how early I can get away with putting out our Christmas decorations. ESPECIALLY since we have our own big tree this year that I'm just dying to decorate! We bought ornaments in 2008 to use for our first married Christmas (which we didn't use since we weren't here over much of December), and we got TONS of cute ornaments as gifts last year. I just can't wait to pull it all out.