We've had a wonderful past week playing, eating, and thanking God for many blessings. Uncle Kenny and Mollie came to visit again and we so enjoyed our time with them for yet another Thanksgiving together. Can't forget to mention Hudson's first 22 shooting experience... he was very brave and daddy is very proud.
Although chilly and wet out here in Washington, we've had some fun outdoors.... chopping down trees for firewood, nature walks with friends, and walks on the beach. Lots of cider too!
Getting to say "aargh, matey!" over and over and eating lots of sugar was the best part of trick-or-treating this year. Ben and I got so much pleasure out of how much they were loving it!
Woo hoo!!! My husband finally caught his first deer!!! Go babe, I love you! To my surprise, carving the pumpkin this year was the biggest hit for Noah and Hudson since peanut butter. They had a blast! The last picture is of Noah flying us home from Northern California- it's amazing what a little 5 year old boy can do nowadays!
What a great time we had last week while having the blessing of visiting some of my family in Northern California. The boys were especially delighted to see their great grandparents and I think they, my grandparents were equally delighted if not more by the boys' enthusiasm and energy.
We enjoyed a crispy, fall Columbus Day at Hunter's Farm picking out pumpkins. The boys had a thrilling time running and tripping through the pumpkin patch.
Noah is becoming quite the little hunter these days. Dad took us out a couple weekends ago for some target practice (all of us took turns shooting minus Hudson who was a bit timid of course). This past weekend daddy took Noah and Winchester out for a pheasant hunt. Hard to believe that next fall Hudson will be out there with the boys too.
Always great to have moms/grandmas around even though this visit was a quickie. Thanks mom for the extra help, all of the apple sauce you made, and for the latte outings. Thanks grandma (and grandpa!) for "Cranky the Crane", for playing ball in the yard, and for our Seattle Aquarium trip!
We spent a happy weekend celebrating Noah's 5th birthday. Ben was able to come home in between some business trips out to sea for which we were thankful. We spent Saturday in Seattle picking up Grandma Howe at the airport and then poked around at the Italian Festival. On Sunday after a great morning at church we had our good friends over for some cake and presents.
A couple weekends ago we headed up the road to our cute little county fair and rodeo. The boys were dressed in their duds and feeling like real cowboys. Noah had his pistol in hand the whole time looking for some action (except of course when he was downing his corn dog).
