Now that I've decided to take up the mantel of the blogger once again, it's time to write an update about what we've been doing lately. The past three months have been holiday months, so here are some pictures and details about what we did for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the build up to Christmas.
In October, Tara and I decided to visit the pumpkin patch that is a short drive from our apartment. This was no ordinary pumpkin patch. Not only could you pick from a wide array of pumpkins - large and small, warty and smooth - but there was also a corn maze, hay ride, goat tower, hay pyramid, and Corn Hole range.
Here are some pictures of Tara and I, lost in the maze:
Here is Tara playing a game called Corn Hole. If you're wondering what Corn Hole is, it's just the Kentucky way of saying Bean Bag Toss. I'm not really certain about the origins of Corn Hole, but for some reason it is associated with University of Kentucky sports as can be seen by the blue and white University of Kentucky bean bags sitting on the ground behind Tara.
This is a picture of Tara and I sitting atop the hay pyramid. It was really windy and cold up there and hay kept blowing in our faces. Climbing down was fun because wherever you jump there is a soft bail of hay to land on.
Tara attempted to find the Great Pumpkin. In the end we wound up with two warty runts that were much more lovable.
Here are some of the cool pumpkins that they were selling. We got warty ones like the one on the top row to the left of the really long pumpkin.
Unfortunately I failed to get a picture of the goat tower. It was basically a series of ramps that spiraled upward to the top of a tower, to the top of which a bucket of food for the goats was raised on a pulley. This prompted the goats to make the trek to the top of the tower, which for some reason was totally awesome.
Here we are with Tiffany and Eddie on Halloween. A little girl dressed as a fairy got scared by my Darth Vader costume. I took off my mask to show her that I wasn't really Darth Vader. In response, she said: "I thought you were the booger man!"
Our goofy jack-o-lanterns. I tried to make the one on the right look like the jack-o-lanterns in A Nightmare Before Christmas. It mostly worked out. My favorite though was the one on the left, which turned out better than I thought it would.
Here is a random barn that Tara and I stumbled upon while driving out in the country in the fall time. Tara really liked it and decided to take pictures.
For Thanksgiving we visited Tara's family and had a big feast at her aunt and uncle's house. This is a picture of the apple pie that Tara baked, which was much better than any of my apple pies that I used to be so proud of. Tara gets to make them from now on.
We have had a lot of snow already this year. This picture just shows a dusting compared to the six inches we wound up with later. We've also had freezing rain that made all of the trees look cool.
Our apartment is all decked out for Christmas. Our wreath is now covered in icicles, which makes it look even more festive.
I took this picture of our Christmas tree this morning. It has a few bare spots, and some branches that stick out weird, but we love it for who it is. The big silver box on the left is Tara's Secret Present. If you look really close, you can see the force field.
Finally, we have A Portrait of the Chow as a Young Dog. I thought the shadow was funny.
Merry Christmas and a happy 20X1!
