The rest of October flew by

Seasons come and seasons go

I've gone for a couple more walks up at the zoo. At Safeway I saw these stuffed animal "flowers". They are cute and I suppose they would bring cheer to a little person in lieu of real flowers.

I'm continuing my journey toward health

I'm trying to make good decisions about what goes into my mouth. I do drink a lot of water every day but have a few cups of coffee a week as well. A "senior coffee" at Freddy's is a buck!

Spending some time with my Best Boys

and a giggly Grand-girl too.

I got to peruse some Christmas displays

And enjoyed some Fall decor 

Genevieve and Danika both at physicals last week and Garrett wanted to go with us.

I love their pediatrician! She is always so encouraging and supportive. Neither girl needed any immunizations and both are very healthy :D

After appointment outing

I needed to gas up the van at Fred Meyer fuel so I treated the kids to Starbucks followed by a walk down to...

It was time for Genevieve to get a trim. She loves getting her hair shampooed and cut.

Cutie girl!

The colored leaves are still here

This has been the most glorious fall in my memory. I have been in awe of the beautiful colorful displays everywhere I drive around the city.

Halloween has come and gone

This is the only picture I have of what Garrett dressed like for Halloween. He had a red mask to go with this ninja turtle gear. Wyatt was a Ninja Turtle too and the girls were a bat and Tinkerbell.

Out east the kids' classes had parades. Katie was a princess fairy at her preschool and Rowan was Farmer Seed from a book called "The Giant Jam Sandwich" (his school had everyone dress as a story book character and they marched around carrying their books.

He changed for Trick-or-treating into a pirate knight and Evie was a mouse.

She should have been hanging out with Anabelle on this side of the country.

She was a "mao" kitty and Henry was Builder-Guy!

I had some Halloween fun of my own

I got to carve or drill pumpkins to decorate the porch. Courtney and I dressed up and handed out candy to lots of cute little kids that came to our door. 

With my determination to get healthy I wanted most of that candy gone by the end of the night. Needless to say I was a very generous Gramma-butterfly ;)