Fall Colors

Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the way the wind carries with it a hint of cold so that the nights are now a time to find a cozy blanket to fend off the chill. I love the sound of leaves rustling in the breeze. And I love to watch the stunning autumn hues appear where once only a sea of green could be seen. I was fortunate enough to take all of these shots in our yard while Will played happily and Jake hung on to my leg just wanting to be with me.

Adventuring

The boys and I went on an adventure to the park this morning. We are much closer to parks here in our new house, so we ventured out on this beautiful 70 degree, almost fall, day. I realized that I have never taken the boys to the park by myself. When we lived in Colorado Jake they were both so small I didn't really go to many places besides grocery shopping. Then when we moved I didn't have a car- I just can't get used to driving Jonah's truck- so I stayed home most of the time. Now it is a whole different game! We can go places and have adventures all by ourselves, it is nice. They had a lot of fun, even though they both looked really tired on the short drive home and melted down a little while waiting for lunch. Let's hope they both take a nice long nap!

100 Random things you may or may not know about me

I should be unpacking or organizing or cleaning or doing a whole host of other things. Instead I am did this page for a challenge at Jen Wilson designs. Here new line is so fun I had to play for a while. Ok now back to something productive in the house!

Still in the Process

It has been 1 week since we closed on our house and we are. . . still in the process. We have mostly finished cleaning and have started moving boxes. Wow we have a lot of stuff. I thought we got rid of a lot. We still have too much stuff. . . I think we will be having a garage sale to get rid of more of the stuff we have and really don't need. The boys are getting tired of entertaining themselves. Jake started to morning out with uttering the phrase "upie, mommy" many times with more insentience and volume the more the morning went on. Every time I sat down he would back up and sit down. At this age he is defiantly a mama's guy and doesn't like to be out of my line of sight for more that a few minutes so this challenging for both of us. But there is hope as we are getting close to being at least moved in and sleeping there (this is not to say unpacked which will take some time!) Ok back to packing/cleaning/ organizing!

Home Sweet

Wanted to let you all know that the closing went fine. We signed and had the key yesterday afternoon. Jonah started working on the pipe issue and is doing well so far (nothing has odd has cropped up) I will really start cleaning today- washing down wall mostly today- lots of dust accumulates when a house has sat empty for that long. So I am off to take a really quick shower, throw in a load of Laundry, Pack some things my car, and get the boys up! Do you think I can do all of that in an hour???

Tomorrow. . .

So tomorrow we close on our house! We are very excited, there is a bit of work to be done before we can move in but we will begin tomorrow. It has been hard to sit here and wait know there is work that needs to be done but not being able to get it completed. So tomorrow the wait is over. We will begin by cleaning as the house has sat empty since, at least, January and Jonah will fix the plumbing- did I mention that someone came in and took the cooper piping for the water and gas? More of a big frustration than a big problem- plumbing always seems to be frustrating you never know what you may run into. We were at the local home depot like store and the guy in the plumbing dept said that this is the third story that he has heard of piping being removed. He said he thought is was silly seeing as how if you were to remove all of the pipes from a very large house you might make $200 off of the pipes. So it is really not worth the hassle. We don't even have that much that was removed so they made even less. So hopefully all will go smoothly and we will have the essential elements for a house, i.e. water and gas, shortly :)

Corn Fields and Colorado Peaches

We have been thoroughly enjoying the sweet corn here. There are several places where you can go and get it very near the house, many that you just get how ever much you want and leave the money. So we have it very fresh and whenever we want. Yesterday a Neighbor told us that we could get free sweet corn down the street. So we got the boys and went down to check it out, well I didn't realize it before hand but we got to go into the corn fields and pick the corn ourselves. How fun! So we trampled through the corn fields (trying to take care and not trample the corn) and pick corn ourselves. Will thought it was great fun, Jake just wanted to stay as close to me as possible he is little compared to corn stocks!

The other produce buzz around here is Colorado Peaches! Tons of people are saying how great they are, churches are selling them as fundraisers, and grocery stores are only selling them by the case. This really cracks me up, the fact that we lived there for so long (my whole life in fact)and I never really heard people talk about how great the peaches were and here everyone is talking about them. (OK so I did hear my grandparents talk about them, but they are crazy about produce so that doesn't really count :)- just had to clarify that!)