Nostalgia

{sneak peak of our fall family pictures....}

this fall has been a memorable one! there is something about the leaves, soup and bread, pumpkin carving and time with family that makes the fall months some of the most nostalgic of the year. it brings me right back to when i would be so excited to carve pumpkins for family night. on halloween night my mom would make "stoup" and we'd brave the cold to collect our teeth rotting pile of candy. we would separate our candy into groups of assortments; suckers, candy bar minis/large/king size, fruity candy....you get the point. we would all savor our candy and only eat one piece a day (i think that was more my mom's rule). i even remember one year my candy lasted until the next halloween. haha. we then would go visit our uncle jonny in provo and show him our costumes. we always loved making his night.

now i am making new traditions with my family. we go over to my parents and show them our costumes. then we head over to the brady's and we ALL are dressed up. we are a big family so it makes it so fun! it is one of the best parts of being part of the brady family. there doesn't seem to be anyone who is a poor sport. we always take a group picture and there seems to be a million cameras we have to smile through. bill makes hot cyder and we have soup and play games. i was bummed our cake contest didn't continue this year. the boys know they'd get their butts kicked again so they wouldn't agree to more humiliation. they still claim they won.

the holiday season is at our door step now. thanksgiving is only ten days away! i love my family and the fun memories i have made and the future memories to be made.

here are a few fun pictures from our fall happenings

{yarn wreath}

my neighbor showed me how to do this fun and really easy yarn wreath.

it adds a little fall to my pantry door.

{nikki- the brown felt turned out cute, right?}

{a little something for the table}

 i used two "b" book ends as a napkin holder and

filled a corked jug with black eyed peas

 {anthro uses them in their displays, so i stole the idea}

{painting my pumpkin}

i've never painted my pumpkin before so i thought why not.

it didn't turn out as good as i hoped but i still love the color.

{and you can totally tell in my face that i'm starting to NOT feel good....blah!}

 my little bro ryan carved a sweet ninja turtle in his. can you see it?!

{hee haw farms}

on halloween day we went to hee haws with brett's fam.

we went at the perfect time because we had about 2 hours then

when it was time to go the down porr started. it was a blast!

{the slide}

this was the absolute best attraction for the kids.

especially lindsey and steele!!! they could NOT get enough

of this thing. linny kept saying "again again" in her adorable voice.

they they wanted to go by themselves. the picture don't really show

how big this slide is. and with the gunny sacks they fly down it!

this gives you a better idea of how big the slide is.

listen closely to linny after. they really did love it!!

{halloween night}

brett and i were pirates and my steeley was

appropriately "the man of steel" ha ha

 this was the only picture i got of steele in his cute skeleton pj's.

ashton and linny have some too but are adorable in pink.

somehow ash didn't make it in the picture. i think all the kids

were hyped up on sugar! how cute would it have been of

all three of them? they would have looked like triplets!