Hodgepodge

This Fall season has been good to us (minus Auburn football).

I have been a slacker keeping things up to date on the e-diary blog.

 My free moments have been filled with time outside.

Below is a hodgepodge from the end of October and into November.

Cherry Hill Campground
SC

A weekend get away camping trip with friends to the upstate.
Hysterical good time.

Chattooga River
Spoonauger Falls

Station Cove Falls
C-C-Cold

Be- you- tiful
tie dying

Oktoberfest Fun and Festivities

and...
the mornings of having to start the car up early before work and hitting the defrost button has begun....
Ugh

Halloween 2015

LDC wanted to be a sea turtle this year.

I give myself an "A +" for effort and "C-" appearance.

LDC loving on Lucas.
If there is a baby around, my daughter is there.

Potluck Dinner Picnic in the backyard

Obstacle course fun followed by chasing and squealing

A special bonus was celebrating Samuel's first birthday

About to set off to go trick-or-treating

Halloween 2015
Talk a walk with a turtle.
And behold the world in pause.- B.F.

Autumn, the mellow time

This past weekend included a trip to the upstate.

Red

Yellow

Orange

Slowing Down

Due to the flooding, school was canceled this past Monday and Tuesday.

We slowed down and enjoyed little things.

A new way to carry art supplies

Glow sticks in the bathtub and practicing Halloween scary faces

Hiked  Puddle Jumped and Swam in Hitchcock Woods
happy kids with water sloshing in their rain boots

and...we decorated Fall decor

Out of this World Good Time Space Party

5...4...3...2...1
(not a space theme cake BUT it is twinkly)

Space Cadet LDC

Ruth Patrick Science Education Center

Play-dough + Star Cookie Cutters + Shiny Bling

We watched the planetarium show Larry The Cat Goes to Space

Galactic ice cream, extra sprinkles and a

spaceship pinata. 

September 26, 2015

Drosophila

"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for."
― Maya Angelou

The last weekend of the 2015 summer included:
fruit flies
a dip in the ocean
whip nae nae
trying to bicycle with a kids carrier attached and two flat tires
vodka and soda
a beautiful blue sky Saturday
delightful company

Jekyll Island GA

"Girls, get in the tree for a quick picture"- Lisa
"We are being swarmed and eaten alive" -Christy
 "Good enough"- Lisa

We are still itching the mosquito bites.

Not sure why I pushed up LDC's pant legs.
The end was inevitable.

Shrimp and Grits Festival 

Jen was a trooper to drive down from Savannah to join us.
(Beautiful little Ryan has on running shoes for a reason.
Zoom.)

scrolling down to find my year of birth

September 7 2015
The day off!
What, what??!!

Labor Day brought...
my birthday
stretchy Night Sky Playdough

a hike in the Woods

sharing my love of artichoke and scallops

and soaking in the little things.

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