Where the Wild Things Are

(JC speaking) Once in a while, my dad takes us on long walks to the middle of no where.  This time he stopped at the end of a road in the Barranca Mesa area (note guardrail) and we started our walk.

At first there was a nice trail.  I guess a few people had headed this way...

Soon the trail faded and we went into the wild.

Whoa!  All of  a sudden I had to go.  My dad gave me some pointers.  SM is a disinterested observer.  Bonus!  The tree turned green with my watering!

Finally we reached the end of the Mesa.  I am uncomfortable with heights, cliffs, and spumoni ice cream.  My big sis, M, realized this and helped me feel safer.

We started on our way back.  SM was very patient and here's why...CRACKERS!

My beautiful momma photographed this experience.  Thanks!

Daisies are Fall Flowers?

M joined a Daisy troop.  Here she is at her first bridging ceremony.

She is having a great time learning about her world every week.  Why do they call it a bridging ceremony?  Now you know...

She also got to march in the homecoming parade uptown.  She passed out candy to everyone except JC - she gave him a hug instead.

We love suckers!  Thanks for being a Daisy, big sister M.

Look out Below. It's Fall Foods!

Oh!  My beautiful momma is a kitchen extraordinaire.  I hear Kitchen-Aid is coming out with a new edition named after her.  We live in the LOE where donuts are not easily obtainable.  Therefore, the county sponsors a donut contest every year.  My beautiful momma entered for the first time.  Here are pictures of her pumpkin donuts.

Here are pictures of her apple cider donuts.  Her apple cider donuts took seventh place in the 'beginner' category.  The winner used green chile (of course!).

We also collected ~ 10% of the apples off of our tree and ended up with this many.

Here is her stove during the apple-vaganza.

And here is JC's closet.  We also have jars in every cupboard/closet we own.  If you like apple sauce, than our house is your Gimle (gratuitous Pops-centric reference).

We are nuts for fall foods!

  

We couldn't afford a trip to Europe...

...so we had our kids play soccer instead.  Here is M at her first practice.

She also had a few games.  Her team was the Fireballs - so, of course, they were the color white. 

Here is M attempting a throw-in.

What does SM do during all of this?  Ride the slides!

JC also played soccer this year.  This blog post is so late, he had his last game of the season tonight.  He scored a few goals and stole a few hearts.  Look at that hair!

Another victory for the White Lightning (hey at least their team name made sense).