Yes, we're still together-Dada, Iris and Mama. It has been said a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are several thousand words...not literally.First, our relaxing times: hike in a new county park called Taylor Mountain (pictured above), in our backyard with a new cat friend that we named, "Miss Puff", beach fun in Mendocino county where we spent a weekend in early October. The water was freezing, but Iris loved being there!
Birthdays: Friend Joshua turned four the same day that Mama had celebrated another birthday. Iris helped Dada with the cake and couldn't stop talking about sprinkles.
Harvest time: Playgroup friends had great fun at Oluf's Pumpkin Patch, annual pumpkin patch visit and jack o'lantern carving with cousins Matthew and Noah and Aunt Ruth, but no corn maze fun this year. :(
Halloween: Preschool had a Halloween parade and cookie treats, which Iris thoroughly enjoyed. Bottom line-Iris likes sweets! Of course by Halloween, she was ready and primed for trick-or-treating. She really was impressed by the glow-in-the-dark outlined people costumes that she calls, "green people". She was a truly happy pumpkin by the time we returned home from our neighborhood rounds.
Today is All Saints' Day, and I think of all the saintly people in our lives that continue to help us, love us, and point us to the true light of Christ. Thank you and thanks be to God!
