HAPPY FALL EVERYONE!

So, this has got to be my favorite time of year! With the sunshine, cooler weather, the leaves changing color & blowing and falling from the trees! It's just a beautiful season!

We've gotten out and enjoyed it all, from apple picking, hayrides, picking out pumpkins & bonfires.

Dominic & Gino were happy to have their Papa K back home from Wyoming to go apple picking with us.

I've decided that Gino is such a camera hog =) He's always wanting me to take his picture. And of course I do.

We had lots of fun playing in the leaves at my friend Rose's house. We had a huge pile for them. Dominic & Gino loved throwing leaves at each other.

Dominic has been on two field trips with his class. He got to go to Bauman Orchard and to Tegtmeier's pumpkin patch.

He has some good buddies in his class and every time I take a picture it's the same three =)

Dominic got his first loose tooth! He didn't like it so much, but he better get used to it, he's got a lot more teeth in there. It came out at school while he was eating fruit snacks. His teacher saved it for me so we put it under his pillow that night. He was hoping the toy fairy would come instead of the tooth fairy. But only tooth fairies here! It left him a $1.00. I think that's pretty good.

Dominic stayed home from school for two days this last week with a slight fever and cough. I'm hoping we can all avoid the worst of it. He's enjoying kindergarten, but we still have a rough time some mornings. He likes for me to walk him into his class everyday and wait while he puts his lunch choice up & gets out his things. He wishes he only had to go on gym day because that's his favorite (thanks to his Uncle Mark, who is also known as Coach Albert's). It's been so much fun watching him already learning to read! He can sound out words now and his writing is getting better. Our first parent-teacher meeting went real well. He's in the top of his class & she say's he's doing great =) Always good to hear.

The kids have enjoyed watching the big combine take down all the corn that was surrounding our house. So if you drive by now you can again see our house. It's been nice being so secluded though. We're starting to see the deer again too which is always fun.

I must admit I loved watching the combine too. I always enjoyed corn-picking time as a kid, one of my favorite memories. Maybe that's partly why I love fall so much.

Sorry about all the pictures. I didn't realize it'd been so long since I updated this blog! We've been busy though. I'm still working 3 - 4 nights a week at the restaurant. Andy has been working steady hours & dealing with some back pain.

Now we are just preparing ourselves for the quickly upcoming holiday season =)