A little taste.....

of what we were up to in Southern Ca.
This was out at my mom's in the desert. The girls love it there, it is pretty wild.

Pumpkin Day

Friday we attended a wonderful field trip

to one of our local pumpkin patches.

It was a lovely day as always.

A beautiful Humboldt County fall day as you

can see in the background.

Berrylicous!

A surprise day with my husband home from firefighting led us to a impromptu visit to a dear friends house (Patti) just a bit south of here. She let us loose in her beautiful yard, complete with vegetable garden, and chickens, to pick berries. The girls picked just enough for us to make a berry pie. They just ate theirs for dinner.

Here are some highlights.

An unexpected trip~

We suddenly found ourselves back in the car driving to Southern California

again for a family emergency.

I decided to make the most of it and take the kids to see some animal life,

Lucy is the one who requested it. Luckily the San Diego Zoo,

where I used to work by the way, was nearby.

Here are some photos from our day at the zoo.

We walked in to see this peacock in all of it's glory.

I will make some entries about some of the things that have been going on this month,

as you can see I have not written in a while.

In addition to the sudden out of town trip, my mom was here,

husband off for two weeks, and then my dad "surprised" us.

Whew~Now it's catch up time.