More Fall-y Things!

We took a family hike in the mountains. This was traveling to the trailhead from info center. 

 Sweetness.

 Isaac kept picking up sticks. This is the one that Elias wanted to pick up. 

 Monkey? or Isaac?

 Rock climbing.

 That's one way to get in a picture.

 Rock throwing.

 Building bird house.

 We still have to paint and hang.

 Sleeping with his head out the door.

 I just think he's so cute!

 Olivia took a cake decorating class at school during fall break.  We made some more and practiced at Grandma's house.

 I love that he hangs on to my hair no matter what I'm doing...even putting away laundry.

 This is not halloween practice. This is Olivia after she spontaneously pulled out one of her teeth.

 Olivia realized she could carve faces into mushrooms before cutting them up. It made it more fun to cut them! My little cook!

 He found this suit when pulling out the next size of clothes.

 He flew all through the house.

 Cooked "bricks we made after reading about Moses and Pharaoh. The broken up pieces was the brick "without straw". (It was really just mud and weeds. Very messy, but very fun.)

 Foothills Fall Festival.

 It was super fun and all free. Too bad this was the last annual festival.

 This squirrel was driving the boat around the pool. Olivia, Elias, and I got to pet it after the show.

 Isaac waited forever in line for this, but it was totally worth it! We'll have to go for real laser tagging!

 No fear! 

 This was the awesomest pig race! I felt like I was in the movie Sweet Home Alabama during the "country" part. The man in charge could have made the crowd excited enough to eat worms!

 Olivia is back there in the middle somewhere with a pink shirt on.

 He likes these things.

I was going to go the the Tim McGraw concert and sit outside to listen, but then a friend called with an extra ticket because her husband was sick! Boo and Yeah all at once!

 That's about as clear as I could get from where I was at.

 Found them together one night.

And my last picture.....what happens when you try to be quiet during nap time. Another great cooking show missed! Darn! I was trying to be on the ball with snack time after school. I was making avocado chocolate pudding. It was all accidental, but the gist is I had the lid off and a piece of blender shot out and the pudding splatted ALL over the bathroom. Of course, the picture doesn't do it justice. (I may or may not have had a spoon in the blender.) So instead of being prepared, I spent most of nap time cleaning this good intention up. And by the way, the little bit I salvaged was not as good as I had hoped, and it was frowned hugely upon by the kids.

Olivia found me a $3 blender at a garage sale that will tide me over till Christmas! :-)  

*Check out "older posts" for Ohio travels with the kids.