Pumpkins and Conference

Last week I went with some neighbor friends to the Amish produce auction. I’d never been and always wanted to. And holy cow!

This was their big pumpkin auction, and none of us had any clue what we were getting into.

We walked around admiring all the wares and wondering what this ring of corn was? I graciously offered to model my interpretation of it. #nailedit

There were 6 of us, so we decided to buy a crate of 40 pumpkins and sell in our neighborhood whatever we didn’t end up wanting, which ended up only being 9 pumpkins that sold within 5 minutes. This was the beauty we won. $4.30 each, not too bad, right?

Our Aussie friends really wanted these straw horses. 😂

These are all out of order, but this is what Ashlee’s 15 passenger BMW looked like when we were through. 40 pumpkins, that we loaded ourselves, 12 mums, along with various gourds, plants, firewood, flowers that we all bought. 

It’s pretty fun to hold the little card up and bid. We learned that after you’ve held your card up once, you can just nod or shake your head to keep bidding or not. 

Proud owners of 40 pumpkins. 

We made a train and unloaded them all onto Ashlee’s porch and steps so we could take some pictures. And I have to say it looked pretty cute. 

This is us with all our stuff. We auctioned from 9-1:30, and we had a lot to show for it. Ashlee dropped me off and my porch looks so fun and festive too. I love fall!

Delaney managed to wait till the first day of October to wear a Halloween shirt and headband. She’s soooo ready for Halloween. We all are actually. We’ve got 3 costumes for the girls, Halloween Candy bought, and, for the first time in our history in LG, we got our Boo’s done before we’ve even been boo’d. We cleaned the church on Friday, along with the Valle’s and Bruce, and it went so fast and was so awesome! And then after that we hit up target and bought our Boo supplies. We happened to choose people that weren’t too far, so last night the girls donned hats and masks and we dropped and ran. We hit one house on the green, so we hid behind a big bush, but unfortunately they never came to the door. It would have been fun to see their reaction!

Delaney and Frankie love guacamole, so D whipped some up with some very ripe avocados. 

I missed a call from this cutest little pig! We got to talk to them today and he is so sweet and big! He talks so much now! He knows all his colors, half his alphabet, counts to 10, recognizes and picks out most letters and numbers, loves the letter Q, and is just the sweetest guy. 

Yesterday was the first day of General Conference and I was so excited that I cried as soon as Pres. Eyring stood up. It’s been such a wonderful weekend, I’m sad it’s over. 

The girls painted and played bingo and Adi took a few notes. 

I caught a sneak shot of them sweetly singing. 😍

I bought a temple picture to paint, and the girls also painted some canvas we had. 

Between sessions we walked down to the little park down the hill and played for an hour. Then before the nighttime session we went boo’ing and stopped to check out one of our fav Halloween houses. 

I love conference bingo. I know that’s silly and it’s for the kids, but I do. I sit with my notebook and bingo card and this weekend I only got 1 full card out of 5 sessions. 

I loved Elder Renlund’s talk about finding unity by putting our discipleship of the Savior first. I loved Sister Eubanks talk about the churches humanitarian efforts and our mandate to help all of God’s children. I could listen to Brother Wilcox talk for hours about grace and God loving all of us that “seek to do so.” And then Elder Dunn spoke about being 1% better, which is exactly what I spoke about at our Women’s Conference in March, so that was cool. Also, of course, President Nelson. I love him so and am so excited to see what temple changes might be coming soon, as he prepared all of us to receive ongoing revelation with open hearts and encouraged us to ask ourselves how firm our foundations are. These are just a few of my favorites, but all the talks were really so good. I can’t wait to delve more into them over the next 6 months. 

PS - as a treat I got 3 bags of Autumn Cadbury eggs and wouldn’t you know, they are all gone. Maybe that will be the only candy I buy for Conference next time.