Sweet October. (So far;)

Holy Cow where is this year disappearing to?   

The other day, I watched a flock of geese fly south and listened to their beautiful song.   Seeing geese fly away to warmer weather always leaves me with a sense of longing.    Days are getting shorter, the temperature is beginning to drop, and there aren't many more months left on this years calendar.   

I feel a strong desire to try and hang on to it all!

For the most part, our days are filled with the regular ol' busy-ness:  early mornings, choir practices, piano lessons, chores, homework, juggling play dates, meetings, volleyball practices and tournaments.   

Of course, ALL of that is mingled with an occasional moment together that makes everything good again, and so totally worth it.  

Our days usually begin with a haphazard and unenthusiastic effort at Family Scripture Study.  On this particular morning though- everyone was on board!   (Hallelujah!!)

Even Nate was participating!   

One day last week, the kids woke up to snow.    We were all surprisingly excited to see it (perhaps because we knew it wouldn't last long;) and I ended up letting Abby and Sam stay home from school.   Why?   Well..partly because the beautiful snowy day must have put me in a particularly acoomodating mood, but also because I needed Abby to babysit for me;)

Shhhhh.....Don't tell John;)

Despite the snowy day mid week,  by the weekend it was gorgeously sunny again!!!    

Thanks to an extra laid back church day (why can't every Sunday be Stake Conference?) we had a lengthy and sunny afternoon to enjoy together.   

There is nothing like a Sunday stroll!

Sam found a geo cache by the creek which was fun for the others.  

And then....he led us straight to another one!!!!

Seriously!  Who is this kid???

Enjoying their "geo cache" treasures:)

It has been a beautiful fall, though the bright vibrant colors never seem to last nearly long enough for my liking.    I'd say most of the leaves have fallen.

Yesterday, I found the kids picking the leaves off our backyard trees in an effort to make their leaf pile bigger.  ;)   They then got the bright idea to move that giant pile onto the trampoline.    For a good hour they jumped and jumped until those leaves had been reduced to nothing but crumbs of what they once were.     When they came in for the night they had tiny leaf particles everywhere.   Throughout their hair, in their shoes, ....EVERYWHERE!!!

Sigh....I guess that's the beauty of fall.

I'll be wishing for these days back again soon enough;)