the day before the snow came...

We (and i use "we" very loosely) finished raking our frost-bitten green leaves on tuesday and on wednesday-thursday snowed and kept snowing until 13 inches had been dumped on us.

 

the girls loved watching Will go crazy in the leaves

 

Will was really, really into the leaves this year....

Daddy with the girlies- sophie on left, madeline on right

Will dumped a pile of leaves on us 2 seconds before this picture was taken. thanks for the lovely "fall" effect, dude.

pumpkin carving!

 

Will's original design that Andrew had the privilege of cutting out for him.

 

This was Andrew's FIRST pumpkin to ever carve! He was a natural.

 

 

And...our very own homemade pumpkin pie. Will was dead set on making a pie out of a real pumpkin. In fact if i hadn't bought a baking pumpkin for him at the grocery store he probably would've refused to carve our other pumpkins from the farm. Anyway, it was a lot of work for something you can just open a can for,  but it did taste great and was a nice little bonding experience for the two of us. :)

Pumpkin Fun

We had a beautiful day to pick out pumpkins (it got up to 80 degrees last sunday when we were there) but unfortunately, most of the pumpkins never turned orange because it was SO cold and snowy last week.

Crazy Colorado.

Bottles and Babies

We really are going to do away with the bottles. someday.  But for now, these little girls just love them and they remind me of little cows when they drink so, oh well. Definitely by the time they turn 2...or 10 we'll give 'em up. ;)  Here are a few pics of one of the last nice days before our first snow and big freeze.