What we've been up to

 Before

 After

 New Pantry (was office Closet area)

New pantry view from kitchen

 New doorway/passthrough into kitchen.  Will be tile all the way in from the garage door.  It was the pantry.

 Shelby-11 months and always smiling

 She is standing on her own now and walking with help

 Andras 10th birthday.  Grandma-the outfit is perfect!  It looks adorable on her.

Mint brownies for her birthday dessert (after the wedding that Bishop Erik performed that evening)

There is more progress on the project since I took these pictures.  The new kitchen entrance is framed, the pantry and new pantry door are framed and all of the electrical and HVAC work is finished.  We have to do some insulating and then onto sheet rock!  The plan is to sheetrock tomorrow morning (as long as Erik is home ) We started tearing it all out on Thursday of last week so we are a little over one week into it-with boxes on the counter functioning as the pantry right now.  The kids were out of school this week for fall break so they helped.  They love to DEMO.  Andra had a great (busy) birthday.

Autumn

We saw this tree on a walk around our neighborhood this morning. I think it's a sugar maple. 

 We saw these chickens being roasted on a visit to the Market Fair at Claude Moore Colonial Farm with Marlo and Jamieson and kids.

 We saw these gentlemen enjoying a pint of ale at the fair. 

It's Getting Colder

This morning we not only had frost on the windshield but we had ice too.  They are talking snow by mid-week, maybe.  I just heard on the news that the Uof I fired coach Akey and hired Jason Gesser (was the quarterback at WSU about 10 years ago).  The colors are beautiful in Moscow this year and it has been a nice, though wet, fall.  Mom and I are both busy.  Mom spends hours each night working on schoolwork.  Can we make it a couple more years?