Leaves!

All Dressed Up...

"Lookeee, I a princess!"

Bubbles

One Last Berry Pick

It was too late. Sadie and I hiked over an hour out to a prime blueberry patch, but the changing seasons beat us and we were left with smushy mushy berries. We saw our first snow and Sadie felt her first cold of the year. After a few mouthfuls of berries, she was done. "I want car!!!"

Here comes the snow!

Hiker

Toddler Time

Hike to Hidden Lake

Heading up...

Hidden Lake

hidden moose

hidden color

Heading down

Meet Mr. Raven...

Maren and David made Mr. Raven yesterday. Sadie was hesitant to meet him and I realized scarecrow has the word scare in it. So did sadie. We now call him cowboy and Sadie likes him.

Spruce Hike

Mountain Time

Watching clouds roll by
Focus, focus. Yes, blueberry!

JJ "The Cowboy" Ruiz spent a week with us- moose hunting with David and goofing with the girls. Sadie calls him cowboy. I think Maren had her first crush. We LOVED having him here.

Stylish Sadie

Maren REALLY wants a cat!

Maren REALLY wants a cat.

She set up a kitty play area for our neighbor's cat, Snowflake.

All Alaskan Meal

Delicious meal tonight- Alaskan silver salmon, rainbow chard, broocoli, beet salad and peanut potatoes a la Arctic Organics in Palmer and Arctic Wit (Belgian White) in the growler from Moose's Tooth.

YUM-O!

State Fair Fun

We had a wonderful day at the fair with my Mom. Sadie liked the turkeys.

Gobble, gobble.

Petting zoo always a fave...

and the pony rides.

Sadie's first pony ride - "I ride big!"

Sadie loved dancing with the other kids to the Irish music.

Fair Flowers

First Grade Field Trip

First grade field trip to the mountains!

Picnic lunch and berry picking- PERFECT!

Grandma marched up the trail.
"Even the Grandma made it!"
(She heard someone say that.)

Berry pickers

Intense berry consumer. There was picking involved, but mostly consuming. She actually belly crawled across the ground to the next patch.

Sadie and Eric tag-team on blueberries.

Heading back down