What a beautiful Saturday! They don't come any prettier. Jared, Gabe, & I spent a few hours shopping and let me tell you, if you haven't been in the stores for a while...get out there! It's clearance shopping at it's best...little red tags EVERYWHERE!

After returning home, my four lumberjacks hit the woods. Gabe was so happy. There isn't anything he loves more than working alongside his dad. Before retiring to the couch to watch the Vanderbilt football game, Gabe and I hung ghosts in our trees. They look a little goofy but Gabe had so much fun climbing the trees to hang them.

Jared is heading out with a friend and his family to his first haunted house. I tried to prepare him for how scary it's going to be. I'm probably not the best person to give haunted house advice because I'm not a big fan. In fact, when we were kids, Dad & Martha would take Mark and I to the JC Haunted House. Dad and I would sit in the car while Mark and Martha would go "get scared". They would get back in the car with flushed cheeks and a thousand stories to tell. Like the time Martha lost her pager in the haunted house and they had to turn on all the lights and the monsters helped them search for it. I was perfectly happy living vicariously through them. I can't wait to hear a Jared's haunted house story!