Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for my blog! And for all of you. And it's time I told you that Damon's mom has moved in with us. She has been out of work since early this year, so she was looking for a job in Dallas and here, and landed a sweet job in downtown Seattle. The kids love having her here. She misses her country property in Dallas. Anyway, that's the news. Happy Thanksgiving.

We painted

After two years of white walls, we finally did it! A chocolate brown, seriously, it kept reminding me of chocolate, and a sky blue. Damon built a scaffold to reach the wall in the entry way.

Autumn

These are a couple pictures I took of the beautiful trees on my street.

I have come to love, love, love green on green.

These two spectacular trees are right at the entry to my neighborhood. I love how they have yellow leaves hiding behind the bright red ones.

And a beautiful display of clouds.
Gorgeous.

Happy Birthday

Devin is

3

He got a spiderman cake, and some other loot.

My baby is no longer a baby. Sniff, sigh!

Sleeping Children and The First Day of School

I don't know what it is, but Damon and I both love taking pictures of the children while they are asleep. We have a whole folder of them. But in other news: Brooklyn started another year of preschool, see top picture. And we had a big weekend around here: Devin potty trained . . . himself, and Brooklyn is riding her bike with out training wheels. I know, I know, exciting stuff!

Snoqualmie Falls

We went to Snoqualmie Falls today. I've been meaning to go since we moved here, and hadn't made it yet. Turns out it is only a twenty minute drive, hee hee. It is beautiful, breathtaking, wonderful. The kids were champs, and hiked the half mile down to the bottom and half mile back to the top without complaining. O.K., we brided them with an ice cream cone on the way up if they wouldn't whine. Hey, I'm not above it!

My trip to Utah for Tamara's wedding BBQ

The Backyard

Devin

Alicia

Deborah and Baby Alec

Family Pictures

Brooklyn in a pretty pink dress

The Whole Crowd