autumn emerges

Oooh, yesterday's weather was perfect. Not too hot, not too cold, an actual honest to goodness fall weather day. After sleeping through my alarm and picking up Liam a little late from preschool, we set out to frolic in the wonderful weather.

We met up with one of my dearest friends and her daughter for lunch. We ate at Cafe Rio and chatted while our kids played. I am secretly hoping that they were cultivating seeds of love and one day they will get married. Or that one of my boys will marry one of her girls. It would be heaven to me. I am always rejuvenated after seeing A. She is refreshing to talk to and seems to always know what to say in any situation. I have a long way to go before I am as good a friend to her as she is to me. I am grateful to have her in my life.

Then in the evening we skipped out on flag football practice and went to Gardner Village to see the witches with my parents. It was nice to have some family time since our schedules have been so crazy lately.

The Village has a cute little scavenger hunt on their website to fill out as you are looking at all the witch displays that you can turn in for a cookie at the bakery. You can bet your bottom dollar that we took advantage of that.

I thought it would be super crazy with it being family night and all, but it was not crowded so we were able to look at the displays as long as we wanted, Liam could lay down in the middle of the sidewalk to fill in his scavenger hunt list, and the bakery had enough seats to sit and enjoy each other's company while eating our treats and drinking hot chocolate.




Love it or hate it, here is my dark hair:


This is my favorite witch. It looks like she is actually riding a bike in the air. Liam stared at it for a while trying to figure it out and finally gave up.




This is the boys' favorite every year. Witchypoo. Need I say more?




Andrew is striking an America's Next Top Model pose and I have no idea what Nick is doing. Gotta love it.