It’s Fall...

Well technically not for another week, but it’s starting to look like it around here. Dove season is always our unofficial start and I took last weekend to pull the decorations out of the attic. I normally don’t do that until October 1st but I needed something to look forward to. I don’t have a ton of stuff that’s strictly fall and not Halloween or Thanksgiving but I put out what I did. 



While Matt was planting mustard greens and turnips, hunting squirrels and dove hunting I did that plus we got (car) ice cream with Bella and Britney, had a picnic with Lily Jordan and did a lot of relaxing together. And of course we were very excited when Daddy got home Sunday night. All the “kids” need attention. 😉

(Katie is very excited that Sammy has finally decided to forgive us for moving her 3 times, lol)

But we only got the one night with him before he was gone again because teal season started today. It’s normally Christmas morning for Matt but this year definitely has a different feel. It was still a VERY good morning to have a limit  in 11 minutes. 

While the boys were away the girls, kids and puppies got to play! We brought pizza to Vivian to see Yaya’s new floors, meet River and get some time to hang out. It had been way too long!

Katie played hard and was asleep in the car on the way home. Of course that means an early morning so we took advantage by having “P.E.” at the park for a morning bike ride and we caught the first glimpse of fall temps too. It was in the low 70s and felt amazing. Here’s to pumpkins, falling leaves, nice weather  (and low humidity 🙌) and starting to think about holidays. I don’t know what they will look like this year but it’s nice to have them to look forward to. 

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