October 22, 2011

boo-tiful ghouls...

we have been enjoying our family time together this long weekend. We started the week with conferences for mom Tuesday evening and all day Wednesday. We ended the day on Wednesday meeting with Livia's teacher...we left feeling VERY proud and blessed knowing she is doing so well. We always say that we are happy that she is doing well academically, but we are more glad to hear that she is being kind and helpful to others. Thursday morning we started our "break" with Sophia's preschool conference. A first for us, since Livia did not "officially" go to a preschool. We enjoyed hearing how well she is doing and getting some tips on some things we can work on with her (zipping, recognizing shapes, etc). Friday and Saturday have been relaxing and enjoyable for the Withers Family...enjoy the pictures!
time for fall pictures! i can't share too many yet, since some of them MAY get into our christmas card...you never know!


pumpkin carving


look at that face!



ready to carve their faces


the cutest pumpkins in the pumpkin patch...and the pumpkins are too bad either!


i told the girls to make their faces look like their pumpkins

October 9, 2011

autumn wonders...

last weekend we celebrated auntie jill's birthday with the withers and decann families. later in the week we picked pumpkins from grandpa's garden. this weekend we drank in all the loveliness that this autumn has given us.


"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~Albert Camus


grandma nancy and the girls


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grandpa's pumpkin patch


notice the missing front tooth? this happened on the day before school pictures...








grandma pam, grandpa mike, livia, and sophia
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close-up from the bridge...




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bobby spotted this baby snapping turtle on our bike ride to the sanctuary



the deer loved the apples and bread we fed them...



too funny!



the girls fell in the love with the fawn eating the apples right beside them...


ahh, the wonders of autumn!

October 1, 2011

farm fun...

it has been such a lovely fall, and we have been trying to take in all the fall sights! we have visited nearby apple orchards, pumpkin patches, and farms in the last few weeks. here are some pictures from those fun farm adventures... sophia with her bunny
bobby with the girls going down the hill in the soap box derby


taking a ride in the soap boxes...sophia and i were in the back and boy, did we ever have a rough ride!


my pumpkin in a pumpkin maze



watching the trebutchet (the pumpkin chucker flinger thinger...as they like to call it)



farmer livia and rider sophia


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livia and sophia feeding the jersey calf (they feed them through a hole in the fence so they do not knock over the person holding the bottle)



feeding the goats

daddy and sophia





livia holding kid #1



kitty sophia



livia holding kid #2 (do you think she likes animals or what?)