Molly in the pumpkins...

My two kids...

Last Friday we went to the apple orchard to pick out a pumpkin. It was a good fall day where it might rain at any given moment, and it was just cool enough that you were really cold outside. The sun was trying to peek through, but never really made it while we were outside. The kids loved being there and running around. This will be our first year to actually carve a pumpkin. What joy and excitement that brings to the little ones.

Our cousins...

Eleanor thinking about a picture... Eleanor giving me a great pose for the picture...isn't she cute with those curls!
Rynn thinking about not looking at me for the picture...
Aunt Gretchen being patient to get a look up even if it was not at me...isn't she cute and grown-up!

I thought I would post some pictures of the girls, because we have really enjoyed them being closer to us so that the kids can play more often and grow up knowing each other and maybe even liking one another - who knows maybe they will even go to the same college and be the greatest of friends.

Cruisin' with a bruise...

Kyle and Molly were playing on the bed the other day, when Molly decided once again that she would lead with her head...right into the edge of the footboard. We thought she would just have a really good bruise on her cheek (because it came immediately), but it has travelled up to her eye. She looks like a bruiser. We are sad that she has it, but we love her even in her state of coloredness (if that is a word!)

A day with Uncle Lawny & Auntie Holly...

At the top of the lighthouse... It was not a clear sunny warm day, but cool foggy and grey...
Jack and I ran a little to the get to the lighthouse...
Molly rested on top of Kyle's head...
Holly & Lawny wanted to test the water...

So sorry dad....

Here is a the concrete slab for our new addition. Jack had a good time riding his bike on the clean smooth surface for a couple of days. (That is our neighbor's yard through the fence...they had to take down some fence for the concrete guys to pour the concrete.
Here are two of the new walls for our addition. We are making some progress. Kyle was up there today with Lawny removing some of the roof to join the two together. Yeah!

Jack is away...Molly will play!

Molly and I left Jack at school, and we went to play. I was a bit at a loss with only one child. I am so use to having both of them - I felt a bit naked. I was also surprisingly a bit sad to have just Molly, but then I thought what good Mommy and Molly time. We went to the park and the pictures that follow tell you what Molly thought of the time at the park...