Chicken for dinner...here chicken chicken chicken

I just had to post this. It was actually taken in October at a pumpkin patch near our house. They were out of pumpkins. Murphy's Law.

Aidan and the neighbor boy decided to try and mow down the friendly feathered farm hands.

Here we go a Grizzwalding.....

Since it didn't rain down here in Argenta the entire summer, we didn't dare cut down a tree in the area. We felt it would have been a tinderbox tree with a high fire hazard.

Therefore, we cut one down near Papa's house up north the Friday after Thanksgiving. "Allegedly" the tree farm had a selection of white pine, our favorite tree. Upon arriving, there were MAYBE fifteen white pine to choose from; almost all of which looked like a large Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. After a good laugh and a few grumbles, we took the best one. Papa chased Aidan around some trees pretending like he was a bear. Ethan got a cold nose.

Turkey day fun

We drove up to Papa Don's house and stayed the night, then went to Lynn's for a wonderful Thanksgiving. Michael and Danelle were there from Washington. Food and festivities were fantastic. Alliteration at its finest. All the cousins were there for the first time in almost 2 years.

Aidan was having issues with taking pictures...ergo there aren't any of him being a normal child.

Ribbit

Check out this huge bullfrog I found last week in our creek!!

I'm so Norman Rockwell

These were taken last week at the peak of the fall color. It's of the few blocks of "main street" in Argenta. It was actually quite picturesque, but I missed the best light by about a half an hour. What the picture doesn't show was the best part about the whole scene. There had been a hard frost the night before and many of the leave were falling off; trickling down slowly and covering the road. It was actually quite romantic movie-like to drive down the "tunnel" of trees with those leaves softly floating down around the car.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...

Two on the bottom.....two on the top soon to follow. I think they'll be in for Thanksgiving. It's been tough because Ethan has a cold too, so the drool, snot, coughing, and tooth pain has been such a joy. Are you noting my sarcasm?

Party time

We had a party on Sat. the 10th for those who couldn't make it to Detroit and Ethan's baptism. Papa Don, Uncle Ben with Michelle, Grandma Beth, Great Aunt Judi, Sue, and Brad, Jessica, and Jaida came to visit. We had ribs and burgers and lots of tasty treats. Jessica and I made a Melisty Mart BP gas station run for marshmallows, chocolate, and cinnamon sun chips (graham cracker substitute). Aidan decided he didn't want to make s'mores in the roaring bonfire. He wanted to incinerate them instead. He liked the ball of sugary fire on the end of the stick. Then he had the nerve to ask me to make him a toasted marshmallow, but he didn't want any "black" on it!! *laughing*

Papa was the only one who stayed the night. I think he was just glad that we didn't put him to work that weekend. Because, of course, we have a no freeloading policy. I think he didn't come down earlier because he didn't want to pull any english ivy...he was just waiting until I was done with that.....Oh how little he knows how much work we have in store for him later....