With fall and Halloween just around the corner, my family and I spent the weekend in the yard planting bulbs for the spring and decorating the yard for the season.  We had a blast.  We stacked up some bails of straw and put some mums on them and pumpkins too.  It’s way too early to carve any of them so we also put out some plastic Jack-o-Lanterns we have that have lights in them.

I had found an old set of pillow cases that were white, took them apart and made 4 ghosts to fly on a wire between some of the trees in our yard.  They came out really good because we used balloons for the heads and that made the rest of the body flow really good in the wind. 

My husband had put a Boston Butt on the grill and had it cooking on low most of the day while we were in the yard.  It smelled heavenly and I think it made of work even harder to get finished so we could have an early dinner or late lunch.  I had sweet potatoes baking in the oven, put on a jar of green beans I had canned over the summer and also had made macaroni salad last night for today.  It’s always better to let it sit so all the different flavors can blend and make it yummy.  I just hope the rice noodles work as well as regular ones since I can’t have wheat now.

Anyway, we recycled a few old things which only helps the environment, added some flowers for next year to make our environment a little brighter and basically had some good clean fun together as a family.  Nothing beats spending time with the ones you love outdoors and then around the table for a meal to top it all off.