A Fall Family Night

I love this season... how could I not?! It's finally cool outside - that splendid fall crispness in the air - even if it took an almost-tornado yesterday to get it that way.

So tonight, we had some amazingly yummy belly-warming soup and rolls for dinner.



and then for Family Night, we carved jack-o-lanterns.



Amelia sang to us, a song about jack-o-lanterns that she must have learned at school. We have no idea what the real words are, but it was pretty cute (and funny).



Sophia's expression the first time she stuck her hands in to grab some pumpkin guts - classic fall hilarity.



The baby almost the size of the pumpkin - I have pictures like this of all three children from their first falls.



And finally, The Jacks







The girls went to bed way too late tonight. Way too late. Sophia gets homework every Monday and she has all week to complete it, but she insists on doing it the first night (how can I argue with that?! maybe she won't be the world's worst procrastinator in college like her mom!) and the girls kept sneaking out to look at the jack-o-lanterns, till Dad finally put the candles to sleep.



Then, finally, it was quiet. And I sat on the porch alone enjoying the cool night. And I made Dad turn the candles back on.

As Sophia says,

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bugs bite at night.