Farewell Fall

 I took a walk one day and brought my camera along, because I have never lived in an area that has so many color changing trees.  There are so many things I love about fall, sometimes it's hard to see it go!  Mom I dedicate this post to you, and to you Kaylee, two people I know that love the fall colors as much as I do!

One day after a wind storm there was so many leaves in the streets you couldn't even see the crosswalks!  It was an unbelievable sight. 

Farewell fall, and hello frozen dog bowls,

and frozen spider webs! (I have never seen this before...)

Thanksgiving

This year Thanksgiving started as it should, with a Turkey Bowl!  This is the view from the warm car, it was about 40' outside, and with the windchill, way too cold for the kiddos to play, even bundled up.  The kids were OK cheering dad on from the car.

That evening we had Thanksgiving dinner with Joe's aunt and uncle.  The table was so festive! Everyone had place settings with waffle cone cornucopia, and Hershey kiss acorns!  How fun!  Rocky pretty much ate chocolate acorns for dinner.  Everything was delicious, exactly how a Thanksgiving feast should be!  The company wasn't so bad either :)

The next day we drove out to Driftwood State Park on the coast.  It was an AWESOME day at the beach.    It was the first time I felt actual sunshine on my face in 6 days (welcome to the Northwest I guess, it can rain here).   

 

Look how much foam these waves churned up!

This enormous piece of driftwood had such beautiful grains in it.  Light green and full of swirls.  I wish I had a forklift to lift it off the beach and bring it home with me...

Rocky found an abandoned fort!

Rock and I stalking our prey.

Fall Times are Good Times

 I honestly think you can never have enough pictures of your kids playing in fall leaves.

We were home from the cruise 2 days when we got in the car and drove to Joe's parent's house to pick up our dog, and watch college football :) It's time for Boise State to invest in a new Kicker.

Rocky was a HUGE fan of leaves.  In fact, he was really upset with Grandpa, Mom, and Dad for raking up all the leaves and putting them in trash bags when we cleaned up the yard.  The day after we cleaned up he went outside looking for the leaves to play in... he said he "missed his leaves SOO BAAD"

His face is pure bliss!

She is one of my favorite things.

One of her favorite things is sitting inside boxes.  She really looks for little spots to fit her bottom in, and then plays in it forever.  We helped Warren and Margaret move some furniture down to their storage and she thought she was a big help.  She made quick work of whatever was left in the drawers. 

Since I was posting about fall I wanted to add these pictures I took of the kids at my favorite park here in Albany.  It was one of the first brisk mornings we had.

I love this picture.  It's like she knows she's bugging him, and loving it!

Big brother watch out, she's developing a very strong personality and she's not going to be so easy to push around...

Not sure what the draw to these goggles are but both kids love playing with them.  Rocky says he uses them to see in the dark, so the routine is put them on, and then go play in the dark closet.  

Rosy has to have a turn too, of course.