Fall 2010 (the abridged version)

How is it that two months go by in the blink of an eye? Fall is over, at least by my calendar, and we settle in for the winter. So here is a brief look at our Fall.

Olivia is on a soccer team. She was a little hesitant at first. But by the end of the season she was "The Most Improved Player."

In October, Ben turned 1, he started walking, and he had his first encounter with sugar - lots of sugar. After eating his birthday cupcake, he looked a little glassy-eyed. But even I look that way after a good dessert. It's part of growing up, or in my case, it's part of dealing with the daily stresses of raising 3 kids.

We made our annual pilgrimage, okay it's only a few miles away, to the pumpkin patch. The kids love the jump house more than anything. But the stinky "farm"animals are a close second. I love all the pumpkins; the different shapes, colors and sizes. They remind me of Fall, the changing leaves, cooler weather, and turkey. Fall used to be my favorite season. Lately I have been FALLing out of love with FALL because now Fall reminds me that Winter is coming, and with it, cold and flu season. Yes, I have issues. So, I think Spring will be my new favorite season.

We had a local photographer take family pictures with all the changing leaves. She does beautiful work. I highly recommend her.

We went to Virginia City, a fun little mining town built up on stilts. Grandma and Papa Wiest were here for that, making it a ba-zillion times cooler.

And, I turned 33. But I hear 40 is the new 20 so things can only get better from here, right? I had an amazing birthday. Doug took me to Sacramento for a night of shopping, dinner, and quiet. It was so nice. It almost made me wish birthdays came bi-annually. Wait, let me do the math on that.... Nope. Nevermind. I will just stick with one birthday a year.