Pumpkin Patch

Last week the weather changed quite dramatically on us. We went from 80 degree days and 40 degree nights to 40-50 degree days with lots of rain and 30 degree nights. Quite a cool down. Tuesday morning the clouds rolled in over the mountains. Here's the view out our living room to the west. The sun is rising and reflecting onto these mountains (7:57am)...

Tuesday we enjoyed hanging out around the house in our pajamas till about lunch time. I went through Madilynn & Elizabeth's clothes/closets and put away all the summer stuff and got out the fall/winter stuff. Man - that was a lot of work! I'm still procrastinating on getting mine done! Elizabeth loved these house shoes we found in the box of clothes for her (they were Madilynn's).
by noon time the sun was out for a little while...

Eva giving me some smiles!

the girls riding on Daddy's feet - not sure what he'll do when Eva wants to do it too! Madilynn might be too big by then (what a sad day!)

Friday all dressed in a pretty outfit!

visiting with Daddy while he was home for lunch

one of my favorite pictures...just precious!

Saturday morning we headed to the pumpkin patch to pick some pumpkins

in our Razorback attire, of course!

Daddy documented as you can see, so I got to be in some pictures!

here's the pumpkins we picked

Here's the view Saturday afternoon - lots of snow up there!

Sunday after church we had potato soup in a pumpkin bread bowl for lunch - yummy!!!

still trying to catch an Eva smile - that seems to be my mission lately

Well the cooler weather has kept us inside a little more but we've enjoyed football, movies, and our fireplace a lot more over the last week!

Fall Colors

Sunday afternoon Madilynn practicing her piano using a piano app on Daddy's ipad - pretty cool!

I went in to get Eva up from her nap and when I unwrapped her she stretched her arms up
just precious

After naptime we went for a drive up the canyon to see the fall colors!

lots of pretty red, orange, & yellow

We drove up to Tony Grove lake and got a few pictures...It was pretty chilly and windy we weren't really dressed to be out of the car for long!

All us

We saw a couple of horses herding cattle. We loved how the sun made the yellow trees so bright!

Cow on the road

Michael checking out a possible fishing spot - the river is just down the hill

Trying to catch a smile from Eva is hard - I haven't gotten the camera at the right time yet! Here's the end of a big smile...

Monday evening Madilynn opening her birthday present she got in the mail from Daddy Gene & Ladonna - thank you for the horse jewelry box & cookbook! We can't wait to make something - I think we'll start with some apple turnovers!

Well, the weather has changed considerably since the weekend. We've gotten quite a bit of rain since Tuesday and it's been in the 40's and even the 30's some with snow on the mountains for the first time yesterday. It was so exciting to see it for the first time (this year)! So glad it's Friday we are ready for a relaxing weekend!!

Madilynn is FIVE!

Madilynn is FIVE today!!

We started off the morning with Madilynn's choice for breakfast french toast - it was so yummy I forgot to take a picture!
Then the girls got dressed for present time!!
We got Granny & Pepaw on one computer and Nana, Papa & Ashlee on the other. It was like a mini party while she opened presents...

She got lots of fun gifts - barbie mermaids, cinderella & horse, ponies, clothes, etc. She was so excited!

even the movie Lady & the Tramp

We had her party this afternoon at the park. She enjoyed playing with her friends! They played hide & seek and the tire swing.

Elizabeth even went down the slide several times!

tire swing again

Eva wasn't left out at all. She got lots of attention too!

Getting ready to blow out those candles! They decided to try on the princess crown cupcake wrappers...

Mommy & Daddy with the birthday girl!

as we were leaving I got a picture of the girls together

Daddy picked out these balloons for her... it even has her name on it!

It was such a beautiful day and the perfect afternoon to hang out at the park. Afterwards we surprised her with dinner at Chick-fil-A!! Such a great day!!! Can't believe we have a 5 year old.

Sister Love

Thursday Elizabeth entertaining Eva,

while Madilynn practiced her piano...

Friday morning Elizabeth doing a puzzle at the table,

while I made cupcakes for Madilynn's birthday...

Eva hanging out with me in the kitchen,

while Madilynn and I made icing and decorated the cupcakes...

All ready for her party tomorrow!!

And, the reason this is called Sister Love...Madilynn and Elizabeth gave Eva a little special attention Thursday afternoon!