September in a Nutshell

I love fall. I love every season because there's so many fun things about each season. With fall I love the leaves changing color the most. I'm not a fan of cold winds or temperatures so early fall is great; I love the colorful world around me during the fall. I love seeing the different leaves as they fall gracefully to the ground and crunching those that have browned. I love pumpkins: the rich orange color, big & little, tall & plumpy and carving them into fun designs. We picked ours out at Terhune Orchards this year. (pics to come) We love it there in the fall, the yummy apple cider and the corn maze and animals. I love the taste of pumpkin and love making pumpkin logs and muffins. Halloween is such a fun holiday too, ignoring all the gory stuff of course. Not my style. But the fun part, the happy ghosts, and fun black cats and trying to conjure up some creativity for costumes without letting them dominate my October. I'm trying something new this year I've wanted to do for a while--can applesauce. It's so easy!! But time consuming. But made more fun to learn with a friend! I've tended to look wistfully at 'domestic' women somewhat wishing I enjoyed that stuff more. Now, I do. September was BUSY with school starting for all 3 kids and a new calling in our church to work with the 12-18 year old girls and also doing new, and old, projects. Big J has also been busy working to find job openings and applying and spending a weekend at a conference in Texas. Ah Texas. I was jealous. I'll say it. He had Texas BBQ. One of my favorite things about TX. Alright, enough talk, on to pictures!

B placed 1st in her division in the 5K race our church does every year. This was her first 5K and from how she sounded after, it won't be her last. Kudos to her!!

B receiving her award

Running the 5K as a team (B saved more at the end than I did and beat me! I take some consolation that I woke up not feeling well that morning & thought that may be the case)

Family Pic

Little A dead to the world. During quiet time she had come in telling me she wasn't tired but I wondered otherwise. 5 minutes later I go in to find this. Apparently she changed her mind.

Little A starts preschool!!! We are doing another co-op preschool between me and four other moms and this year I get to do my youngest! Now I'll have done one year for each child. So fun! We'll see if I end up with another year for her or not.