Our little lion on Halloween night

Today was Sawyer's first Halloween, and lucky for us, we happened to be in the USA! So we had a fun and eventful day. There was never a debate in our mind about what Sawyer would be for his first Halloween: a lion. Born in East Africa, Sawyer is strong on courage and he does a great little growl/roar at totally random times (best recorded in Kara's midnight video... he woke up, crawled around the crib, and roared right into the camera).

To start the festivities, we took Sawyer to the first birthday party he's had the pleasure to attend, that of his friend Sophia Grace. He had a blast hanging out with all the other kids and playing with the many toys. Always a ham, he was happy to be in the middle of a circle with everyone looking in and cameras all around.

Back home, we took Sawyer down the street for his first shot at Trick-or-Treating! He did quite well and garnered many oohs and aahs, plus some candy for his family.




One neighbor even saw him coming and dropped a baby food jar in his basket. Then when we got home and checked out our haul, he managed to chew into a Kit-Kat bar wrapper and had chocolate all over his face before we knew what he'd done. it would appear our boy likes chocolate.

Why we love Autumn

What we love about fall:

-College Football
-NFL
-Crisp Air
-Apple Cider
-Chili
-Pumpkins and other decorations
-Smell of cinnamon
-Cornucopias
-Getting out sweaters and jackets
-Building fires
-Beautiful colors, changing leaves
-Thanksgiving
-Christmas is on the way!

We Love Autumn!

Fall is easily our favorite time of the year, and sadly one of the things we missed the most while in East Africa. But currently in America, we decided to make the most of our opportunity and enjoy all that autumn has to offer! Kentucky fall can be kind of crazy... like playing golf on Saturday in 40 degree (f) temperatures with gale force winds and then hanging out in an orchard on Sunday with sun shining and temps in the mid-60s. Here's some of our fall fun at Evan's Orchard:

Does it get any cuter?

Sawyer driving the bus, all passengers rightly frightened!

We were hopelessly lost in the corn maze...

So Uncle Ryan and Sawyer put together a plan to get us out.

Pointing the way, Sawyer checks behind to make sure we're all in tow.

Enjoying our day.

Winter Gold

The new Winter Olympics medals:


Interesting? Artsy? Post-modern? Or just plain silly?