Pumpkins, Turkey, and Shopping

I am already in full holiday mode this year. I know, it's early. But, you've got to keep in mind that I am going to have a newborn sometime in the mix of all of the action! So in preparation for that, I am planning on having all of my Christmas shopping done before the baby comes. Which means, I've really got a lot to do in a fairly short time.

On Saturday we went to pick our pumpkins from the nearby pumpkin patch. Their prices have gone up this year, but we still got them for $5 each, and as you can see from the picture they are HUGE! We actually have one more than what's shown in this picture, and the unseen one is the biggest of them all. Sienna wanted a small one that she could hold on her own, and we got one other relatively small one to cook our yummy "Dinner in a Pumpkin" in. It was pretty fun to go see all the farm animals at the patch, and also to buy caramel apples!! (Have I mentioned how I am officially having my first real pregnancy cravings EVER, and they're all for sweets! Ugh! I usually don't have a problem saying "no" to sweets, but for whatever reason now, I could live off of purely sugary, baked, sweet, and delicious perfections! I don't think this is one of those times that my body supposedly "needs" what I'm craving...) Anyhow, it was a fun morning.

Then, a couple days ago, I was trying to get Sienna into the "October" mood, and I suggested we find the DVD of "The Great-Pumpkin Charlie Brown", but she thought we should instead find the "Thanksgiving Charlie Brown". So I thought, "What the heck?" We're getting a jump start on it all anyway right? So she watched the Thanksgiving special. I guess my mood, rubbed off on Jeff a bit, because last night he spent about a half an hour uploading holiday ringtones onto our homephone. So now we've got our holiday ringtones all set already! Boy are we ahead of the game. Now I just really need to get the shopping done. Oh, and I suppose I should really make sure we find the last of the baby things we need too. We still haven't quite found everything out of our storage yet. Seeing as how are stuff is strewn all over between my Mom's, my Dad's, AND Jeff's parents basements, it's been taking us some time to locate it all. I think we're almost done!

Oh the craziness of life... By the way, is this what they always refer to as "nesting" that I'm going through? I still haven't ever figured that one out. I do feel a little bit restrained by the fact that we're in my Mom's basement. I'm sure I'd be going even more overboard if I had more space...that's probably a very good thing right now! Only 6 weeks to go!