Thanksgiving

This is very late, but I thought I should put together my Thanksgiving photos! Better late than never. I'm afraid I don't have a photo of every family member that was there. I'm not big on taking photos for the sake of taking photos, so I've just put together my favorites. :)

Look at that cute pink cheek. :)

The photo above is of Griffin sharpening his knife. He was also drinking wine. Logan poured one too many tiny cups of wine, so we gave it to Griffin. I thought it was a comical shot.

Griffin's bloody delicious baguettes above, and an awesome apple pie below!

Sara's chocolate mousse/pudding pie! So good. Paula Deen recipe.

Thanksgiving was lovely. I hope that we have many more like it. 

The beginning of fall.

We woke up the other day to find that it was chilly outside... I guess fall has found us. 

I love fall. I think I love it more than spring. Winter, on the other hand - not a big fan - but I don't let that take the fun out of fall. I love the open windows and the long-sleeves + shorts or tanks + jeans. I love eating fall-ish food, like stew. I love going outside and knowing that it will be gorgeous in every way and that I won't sweat. 

And what I love most of all? Sleeping under three blankets while cold air comes in my open window. That is what I love the best. (Possibly more than anything else, at all, ever.)

Excessive dressing of the babies is fun at first too. We didn't have any warm clothes for Lucy to wear, since the chill came out of nowhere, so we dressed her in Henry's old sweater, a hat I made her earlier this year (from Christina's scrap yarns) and a pair of socks I had tried knitting myself, but were much too small. :)

And on to today's pictures... I cut Quinn's hair right before everyone came for Dad's birthday tonight. It was so amazingly gorgeous out in the yard, so we trimmed in the grass. :)

Photo by Quinn, while I was snapping with Sara's camera!

Photo by Quinn!

I am tempted to put up a large picture of Erin's face, but I think she would cease talking to me. ;) Tonight was lovely! Now for studying tomorrow... Biology test on Tuesday morning at the crack of dawn (literally), and our first geology test on Wednesday. It's going to be some science-y studying tomorrow. Also, I handed in my first English paper Thursday... We'll see how that turns out!

September always inspires me (and October; they are glorious months), so with a little determination, you will be seeing more posts from me in the near future. :)

Au revoir! 

- caroline

happy birthday/harry potter

Mom's birthday breakfast scones! Which we ate the last of today... :) Mom's birthday consisted of scones for breakfast, lunch on the porch, playing with the kids, then later, watching HP7 Part I before heading over to Logan's and HP7 Part... TWO.

This year, Mom's birthday and the HP7II release date happened to be the same day. There was some fate going on there somewhere. Mom is such a loyal HP fan and it was so nice that the last movie's midnight showing landed on her birthday this year! I'm sure that it was also other loyal fans' birthdays that night, but who cares about them. :) 

We loved the movie. Okay, well not all of us loved it, but I know for a fact that Mom and I did. It was so epic! I won't go into a big long review, and I will say that I realize it wasn't a watertight movie, it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen and I will point out that it was only part of a whole, based on a complicated story. All that put into account, it was brilliant. Bloody brilliant. So many things I loved about it.

Anyway, happy birthday again, Mum... I'm so glad we got to see Harry Potter that night and I'm glad you are so cool that even though it was three thirty in the morning when we got home, you were like, wanna watch something? Hell yes. <3

Love,

- caroline

blueberries & storms

Yes: a big tub of blueberries. That can mean only one thing... that the blueberries are ripe at Buffalo Creek Farm! Last year was the first time we picked blueberries ourselves and we got there a little late, but this year we are prepared to stock up for months! :) We picked 6 gallons of blueberries yesterday morning and a peck of peaches.

The last two days have been stormy in the evenings. Yesterday we drove home from Athens in ridiculously windy rain and hail. It was so bad that we had to pull into a parking lot to wait it out a bit - we couldn't even see the road.

After the storm yesterday it was really cool outside and so Henry and I read on my bed while the cold air came in through the window. It was loooovely.

Then we went outside and made ice cream...

You know, I think Lucy's ears are bigger than Henry's. Hehe. They are so funny together - Henry sticks his face up near her and she just grabs onto it wherever she can as quick as lightening.

So this morning we went to the Farmer's Market. I won't describe the crazy things we did to get there with cash in time to shop before my Pilates class. :P The important thing is that we DID get there, and we did find yummy food to buy, as you can see.

We had another short but wild storm tonight. These crazy clouds started to appear while we were making dinner, accompanied by strong wind and finally some rain. It was short-lived, but the clouds were amazing. These photos are nearly straight out of the camera - the only help they have were a SLIGHT contrast boost - no clarity, color or exposure changes.

We made hot chocolate after dinner, because Mother is awesome and thought of it. We got to use my mugs for the first time, seeing as summer isn't usually the season for hot drinks.

And I'll end with a gorgeous sunset.

No, I lied. I have to mention something else. Remember when I said I was sad not to be obsessed with something - a show, an actor, a band, etc? Well. Now I am. I bloody love Parks & Recreation, Ron F***ing Swanson (his words, not mine), His Mustache, Mumford & Sons, and... can anyone guess? Fassbender. Okay fine, I'll stop talking about Fassbender. But the point here is not that I am sometimes an obsessed fangirl (does anyone here remember how gaga I was for the X-Files?), but that I love being in love with these things. So thank you, Logan & Erin, for finally making me watch Parks & Recreation (and the Office, which made me just as happy) because every time I think of that dimpled, mustachioed face I start grinning.

Oh oh, also, we just started watching Modern Family - too cute. Not obsessed as of yet, but definitely plan on watching the rest of the series. :) I'm a sucker for shows that interview characters. Mom thinks they are all Office copy-cats, but I think they are all genius.

Okay, calming down. You can have that sunset now: