Falling leaves...a big fat hole

In my heart that is. I dis like this time of year greatly. The ugliness that comes after fall depresses me.  The turning colors of the leaves, the cool mornings and warm afternoons, the crunchy sound the leaves make on the sidewalks, all things about fall that I loved growing up.  Sadly living in thee NW, that doesn't seem to be the case for fall.  Yes the leaves still turn pretty colors. But it happens later and later every year, and doesn't last as long because it starts so late.  The cool mornings around here, turn into cool afternoons.  And there is no crunchy sound of leaves when everything is soggy! soggy rainy grass, soggy leaves, soggy pumpkins.  SOGGY.

I feel a little happier about the changing seasons this year than I normally would because this year, I have the sweetest pumpkin ever to share everything with. And its a year of firsts. Baby's first fall, Baby's first Halloween. It's much easier to put a smile on your face and wade through soggy fields to find a pumpkin when you know how cute your baby will look sitting inside it!


Ryan surprised us with an early Christmas present last night. I'm very excited to say we are the owners of a new computer.  Really its just a new tower, but what a world of difference it has made already. Our old tower was a self built model that got Ryan through college, 8 years ago.  It made the office sound like a helicopter would be landing outside any minute.  It also was so old, that I couldn't download Itunes on it.  Not a great thing when you have an Iphone that must have access to Itunes to be used well. 

It has a ton of great features and I'm so excited to be able to get all the pictures of my sweet baby, and the fun things Ryan and I did prior to baby up. So be ready for lots of catch-up posts this week!