In more ways than one, we are packed.  Our day was packed with clothes shopping and shoes shopping.  Our visit was packed with swimming and coloring and playing.  Our nights were packed with desserts and snuggling.  Our bags are packed and the van will be packed tomorrow, ready to take us home.  Our memories will be packed with falling leaves and apples, crisp mornings and the first tentative snow, zooming and floating, Dairy Queen and old and new friends outside, enjoying it all together.

While Lily went off to Halloween in the Woods at Jim and Jean’s, the littles got to roast marshmallows and carve pumpkins, too. 

This is how Ollie describes the hot tub…which the children are in right now…at 9:30AM…when it is 47*. 

Swim-Lily

Drive-Ollie

Jump-Emmy

Fall is in full effect in the middle ofthe state in the higher elevations. Our drive was beautiful!

Em (working with scissors and a marker on paper at craft table):  Momma, get me the goo (glue). Can you get me the goo?  

Me:  What do you need it for?

Em:  I am going to goo this and it is going to be fabulous!

eating birthday cupcakes and icecream on Saturday

Anyone lucky enough to have off today got a treat-the most perfect fall day!  I don’t have the right words to describe the sunlight shining through the rapidly thinning forest canopy or the warm sun, cool shade in the yard or the blazing colors of the trees.  The whole weekend was like this but today just seemed the most blissful. And not just because it was a quiet, everyone got along playing day (though that helps!).  It was a day I couldn’t be inside and if I needed to be I kept stopping to look out the windows to take in what was going on outside.  

Go OWW!