We Brought Our Own Pumpkins!

We went to the pumpkin patch in Apple Hill! Madee couldn't believe all the pumpkins~

Is this the one?

Or this one?
Hmmmmm. That looks like a good pick.
There are just so many! I don't know how I'll choose!Ooh! I see one over here!
Mommy and a little punkin.

Oh hey guys!
Gimme kiss!
I was just hanging in this pumpkin patch with Mom and Mad and Uncle Cousin Brody.
Unh.
This one's good!

Or maybe this one.
Yay! Pumpkin Patch!
I think this is the one we came for...
Thanks for all the picture taking, UCB!

Madee l-o-v-e-s you!
A little autumn sweetness.
And a little goofiness, too.
You have never seen me happier. Trust me.

Unless you were here.

A Gracious Blessing

"What the?"
"Do you ever put that thing down?

Rocking her saucer. Note leg meat. Yummalicious!

Running in place.
Chilling at the playground.

Random photo Charlie took at Brody's Birthday Event. Pretty impressive!

Hey Ya'll
She swings standing up.

Stop scaring Mommy!
Oh this deserves more than a couple of words. Ida can haz cereal now, and Madee can haz spoon to help her...

These are the beautiful parts of my normal days.

Watching cartoons. Must be a sad one.

Not sure where I found this, but I love it and I mean it!


Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

Making Memories. Maybe.

Madee, Eden and I went to the farmer's market, and as we went out to the car, Madee requested we take the old Toyota Landcruiser.

Precious.
She loves that car.

It took a couple times to start her in the cold.

As we started down the hill from our house, I looked over at Madee, wind blowing through her hair, music in her ears, fresh pine and chimney smoke and old truck smell making its way through her breath. I wondered if she would have memories of things like this yet. Are these memories still only mine to remember? to document and share with her so she remembers through the story, or will she actually recall someday, riding in that old truck, smelling the gas and the oil and the pine trees and the crisp autumn air of the Sierra?

Will she one day experience some random culmination of smells and sights and sounds so that she feels a bare memory, some essence of this moment in time laughing in the front seat of that gassy old truck riding in the clean morning air to eat fresh tomatoes with her Mama and her sister?

I hope so.

But if I am the only one who remembers I am a very lucky one.

Somebody is too cute...

little bird lips
teething like crazy
laid back

super kissable
saucy
fancy footwork
just darling
even more darling
she likes to bite stuff
sweet smile
too cute with zeus

Of course this has all melted

It was just enough to remind me how much I don't miss winter.

Even though Madee looks really cute playing in it.

Silly gang of snow troopers.

Again.

Ida's Fall Look
Madee's ready for snow.

Can I just tell you I married a badass? My babysitter's bike was stolen out of our garage - HELLO! OUT OF OUR GARAGE! today and Charlie stalked him, found him, and recovered the bicycle.

Bad Aaaaaaasssssss.
This is what Eden sees. She spends a lot of time fluttering her eyelids in response.

I got the flooring for the living area of the RV today. And I am not sure why I haven't transitioned the blog yet - or exactly how I will handle it. I am excited to share pictures, but I want the full impact...

A Few from Birthday Weekend

Auntie Teri came to visit for Birthday Weekend. Her birthday is the 26th, so we gfot to have some fun celebrating together.

I got some really great shots of her when we went out for a shoot.

I am posting a few of my faves.


Happy Feet
Happy Lady



We manifested this little karmannghia...it couldn't have been more perfect.

Auntie reading things to babies...

The coolest girl I know. She talks so much now I am just reeling. She knows an A and a B when she sees one, and knows that 2 comes after 1. And she can say Bela.

She is such a fun little companion.

I chased her around the house cutting her hair for 2 days. She ducks her head and goes, "OWOWOWOWOWOW"

It's very Michelle Williams, no?


Charlie's out painting the RV and it is friggin' freezing out there!
brrrrr.....it's snowing!

4 Months Old

I cannot believe it has been 4 months already. That's crazy! It doesn't even sound right.

Miss Ida is growing up so fast - in fact she can officially eat cereal now. We haven't tried it yet, but it is sitting on the countertop waiting for its moment.


Things have been rough for little Ida as she cuts teeth. She screams and wails and oh goodness there is nothing that will stop her until something in her just gives in.

Sad face.

And she is drooling like crazy.


She's just so pretty, she looks like a baby doll. And she is just absolutely charming and engaging. She rolls over all over the place and army crawls like there's a fire, so I am sure it will be no time before she is running around on the walls surfing the furniture like her sister.

Oh that sounds like fun, doesn't it, Ida?

The littlest one is integrating into the family just fine, in fact, it is already hard to remember what life was like without her.

Like she was just meant to be here all the time.