Fall?

Nope, no pictures this time- next week hopefully, since E's birthday is coming up. This last week we've enjoyed (more or less) snow! We finally had a windy enough day to blow almost all our leaves off of our tree out front. It was nice having the leaves up long enough for them to change color this year! But the landscape is rather bleak and desolate now- time to hunker down until May when we start seeing some color again. The kids did all of their week's worth of school on Monday, planning on doing that every day so that they'd be getting Christmas break early. That lasted...one day. :) Today I'm making them do some school anyway, just 'cause I think the routine of it really helps keep them happy in the long run. Yesterday we went down to Phoenix to visit Auntie Faith and Uncle Gary- it was nice to be warm and enjoy the park that was close to their house! Elijah spent almost the whole time on the tire swing, until he finally felt like throwing up and was convinced that he could play ball a little while. Peter got some basketball practice in while the girls cycled between swinging, slides, and playing with the red bouncy ball. It was very obvious that we're not from Phoenix- as soon as we got to the park, Elijah ran up to the playground, stopped in his tracks, and hollered out: "Hey! SAND!!!" (Flagstaff has woodchips. No sand.) Back at the house, we got to play with Sammy the hamster, eat yummy food and visit! A perfect ending to the trip, we got to go to Yogurtini's (I think?)- a self-serve frozen yogurt shop. YUM. I got mint with brownie bits and dark chocolate chips. Anyhoo, that's about that for now. We'll dig out the camera this weekend and get some pictures up soon. :) Have a great weekend!