Deep Creek with dear friends!

Eliza loved her camping sleep over at MacKenzie Cabin in Deep Creek with fun friends!

 Our girls love their bugs!

 Their horses name was Super Fly!

 The whole gang of smaller kiddos from the group!

 Love these children!

 Apple Picking is the BEST!  Can't wait for next year!

 Fall in Deep Creek!

Eliza and Brynlee climbing the rocks!

 7 families stayed here with 13 kiddos in total and two teenage kiddos at the smaller house. 

Some of the group ready for their riding trip!

Photo Dump

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

My mom and dad have been married 40 years today! I am so very proud of them.  It is not like they have not had their struggles but they have learned to work through them and lean on each other for strength.  Has their marriage been perfect?  Even as their daughter, I can say God, no but... they have a deep love and respect for one another.  They are each others strength and help each other out where the other one is weak.

I never knew how much influence my father has had on so many people until today on Facebook.  I posted a random post about their 40th wedding anniversary and one of my collegues from a few years posted that she had my father in highschool, then another one of my dear friends from high school posted that she had my father as a principal.  Though her never has made his millions he has touch so many children's lives through his teaching, teacher and facilitating teachers as adminstration and working at the district level, creating an awesome school system in Guam in which many students have gone though and had a successful education.  These students have gone on to do great things, engineers, military, doctors, lawyers of fortune 500 companies and such.  He devoted his lfe and continues to devote his life to not only to his three biological children but all of his children that he has helped over the year.  So go ahead and raise your glass... to Mr. Tom, Rich, Richard, Coach Tom, Dad, Daddy-Doodie, Daddy, Opa or Dr. Tom... you are an OUTSTANDING man with a strong woman behind you to support you all the way!  I love you very much and here's to forty more together as a team!  One, two, three...."TOGETHER!!!!"

Fall Fun!

 I love this girl in this pumpkin sweater that I have been waiting and waiting for her to wear.  Only if she would wear it with the cute matching hairbows.  She is such a girlie girlie in so many ways then surprises me and wants to do and likes boy things.  Love this girl!

 She poses so cute!

 Her excitement as she picks out her first pumpkin and it is a goose neck one.  She loves the strangest things and has such an eye for the unusual.  I hope she never looses that sense of wonderment.

 My girl loves her bugs and worms.

Her favorite unripe pumpkin of all though it was the convenant one for the day.

 So model--esk!

 Love my lil' family!

 More bugs...

 This was her BIG pumpkin again the she has such a different eye and liked the one with deep rivets and oblong so Daddy carried to huge pumpkin to the cart.

 Eliza with one of her medium pumpkins.  All in All we wound up with two unrip baby pumpkins, three small cooking pumpkins, two medium size carving pumpkins and her oblong HUGE pumpkin.  We did not even take her over the gigantic king size pumpkins that you need a crane to pick up!

 This year, we got a season pass.  It has been so worth it becuase she has come out of her shell and she is really enjoying the "pillow."  Crying when we have to leave the patch.

So intense hanging on the fence watching her new found friends on the pillow.  Happy third fall together lil one!  Love you so much everyday!  Or as you say, "Mom I love you to two o'clock!"