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

July's already here.

I guess it's really and  truly summer, isn't it? I don't keep track of days very well. I often call some of the spring summer and some of the summer fall and so on and so forth, so when it is actually summer, I question myself. Is it really summer? Yes. Same way with birthdays. By next January, I will be calling myself twenty, and when my birthday comes a few months later, I will be saying - wait, am I really twenty? In fact, I'm going to be in denial come my next birthday, and there will be many many utterings of "Am I really twenty? Holy Lady Gaga." I will be saying the Lady Gaga part because I hear it's all the rage and I want to be hip as I enter my twenties. 

Back to reality. Reality is a funny thing. I was thinking about it last night. I was thinking about reality and about night and about how your thoughts are on a different wavelength at night, they are very very different from what they are in the daytime. And because of that, we often write them off as unreal. But the night is just as real as the day. Sometimes, at night, I feel like I could accomplish absolutely anything in the world. But not usually in the day. Why is that?

Prepare yourself for some Lucy spam, because she's just so darn beautiful. And everyone already knows that I love all the babies to death, so I won't bother trying to weigh out the post with pics of the boys.

Now, here is where the fourth of July should have a place on my blog. However, like usual, I didn't pick up my camera during the holiday. Sara, Griffin and Logan all came over on the fourth and I just... didn't take pictures. Oh well. There were no fireworks, or fires, or crazy celebrations, just dinner and playing with the kids. 

Before I say anything else, I have to thank Christina for giving me some old yarn to make blocks for my blanket! I'm so grateful - I was completely out of yarn and Christina was so sweet as to dig around in her stash for me. I love it all! Thank you so much! I've already knitted two blocks. 

We finished watching Dirty Sexy Money. It was not a good show, but I have to admit that it was entertaining. :) Going back to Justified and Fringe will be very funny now that we've gotten a sip of Natalie Zea and Seth Gabel as completely different characters. Heh heh heh. We started watching George Gently, which is another inspector detective show, but it's set in the 60's. Very well done. Like a cross between Doc Martin, Life on Mars (<3), and Inspector Lynley. Anyone have any shows to mention? Sons of Anarchy, Dexter and Parenthood are on our list, so apart from those?

Okay, enough talking. This was a really wordy post... Have a lovely night.

- caroline