One last look at Fall...

I realized I never posted any Halloween pictures or pictures of the leaves around our house, so, before winter and Christmas take over, I thought I'd better post them. This is, of course, more for my benefit than yours so I'll have a record of our goings on, so to speak.

I love, love, love this tree. It is just up the road from our house. It is right in the middle of a field, all by itself, and it is huge. I love the shape of it. In the summer it was full of the most beautiful green leaves, which I didn't take a picture of, unfortunately. I plan on it next summer, though, because I have a project in mind that involves this tree. I am going to take a picture of it in every season (I'm hoping to get a picture of it covered in snow) and then I'm going to blow the pictures up and frame them so I can hang them on my wall. I can hardly wait to see the end result. This is, of course, step one on the project - the tree in all its autumn glory!

This is another thing that I love - our neighborhood! This is a shot of our street as you first drive into our neighborhood. At the very bottom of the picture is a walking trail that goes all around Brentwood. We feel lucky that it comes right by us. We like to go on Sunday walks and Adam and the 2 older kids have enjoyed bike riding on the trail. We really enjoyed the fall leaves on the hill behind our house this year - especially after 12 years of not really having a fall. I LOVE where we live!!!


This is on Halloween night. Hannah was already out trick or treating with a friend but she looked the same as she did in the picture below. Here Ethan is a member of the mob (in his birthday suit :-)), Ben is a very adorable skeleton (which got him voted for Best Costume at his preschool), and Levi was "just a cowboy, not Woody." Boy did they get a lot of candy!!


This picture was taken the night of our Trunk or Treat at the church. These costumes were my favorite! Levi was Jack Sparrow, Ethan was Nephi, Hannah was a zombie ballerina (Adam wondered why she couldn't just be a beautiful ballerina?! My only answer was that she is growing up - too fast!), and Ben was Link from the Zelda cartoons. We managed to make it through another Halloween successfully. Yea!!