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Glorious Weekends and Other Things

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Chiropractor, new meds, no wheat?  Who knows, but I am feeling MUCH better.  That means, I can DOOOO things!  I can sit for awhile, I can stand for awhile, I can walk for awhile…all of which open up all sorts of new opportunities for our family.  🙂

This past weekend was not only GLORIOUS weather wise, but busy.  We couldn’t have asked for better weather…It was an Indian Summer, as Scott has already mentioned, and I don’t remember an October with such warmth since my oldest daughter was just months old.

Saturday was our high school football game.  Big Girl is playing flute in the Pep Band, so we went along to cheer on our team.  I haven’t been to a football game in years, and I have to admit, I kinda liked it.  😉  I took along my special bleacher seat, saving my rump from the steel bleachers, and snapped away with my camera.  A couple of keepers:

And Sunday was our Thirteenth Annual Apple Picking Outing with our good friends, The Anywho Family.  Anywho and I have been friends since our first year of college.  It used to be the two of us, then along came Zan, then along came Mr. Anywho, and then…well…..

A couple more from the day:

And then there was Monday…just as the kids and I were feeling a bit lost on such a beautiful day, Zan called to say he was on his way home early.  With Daddy back in our midst, we took a little venture over to his parents’ camp on a little lake, stopping for ice cream on the way, and were greeted by the most phenomenal display of foliage we have seen yet this season.  We walked, we (okay, the kids and Zan) skipped some stones, and enjoyed the last vestiges of warmth.  Here are a couple more shots from yesterday, taken with my iPhone because dummy stupid silly me forgot my D90.

“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.” -Albert Camus

Blue…

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Last week my husband was away installing a new office for his company.  (He is Director of Infrastructure and Technology for a “Major Corporation.”) (Isn’t that what they always say on the Price is Right?)  Although we survived the week, we were very blue, especially since he had to leave at Noon on Sunday and didn’t return home until dinnertime the following Saturday, so we had some weekend time without Daddy…our misser was very sore.

Yesterday, he received this beautiful blue orchid as a thank you for all his hard work and dedication during the move.  According to the instructions, the new blooms will be white, so the blue is temporary.  My camera has been lonely lately, so this was a good opportunity to pull it back out and capture those blue blooms before they leave for good.  I’m a bit rusty I’m afraid…really should have played up my aperture more, but I wasn’t thinking. Guess I really need to get reacquainted with my dear friend.

Whose Show Is It Anyway?

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Balloon Festival 2011 was last weekend. Although nearly all the launches were cancelled due to lousy weather, Saturday night’s liftoff was glorious. I was unable to go to the airport with the family because of the walking involved, so instead I went out to a little known spot to view the liftoff from the comfort of my car. The sky put on a better show than the balloons did! Here are a few shots.