A Mississippi Wedding

My "little"cousin got married this weekend.

She used to sit on my back while we watched cartoons.

She called both my sister and I "Insey-asson".

She wasn't calling us a dirty name (I don't think), we were just never apart when we were around her so she saw us as one person.

A kiss from her brother, Will.

He used to be my little cousin, too.

Now she's married.

It was a beautiful outdoor wedding.

Mom, Dad, Lindsey, and I had a lot of together time.

We like to take advantage of time like that and creep around cemeteries.

Mendrops everywhere in this one.

We had to rediscover our people who have been in Vicksburg forever

or at least since this guy came over from Germany.

So after spending lots of time trying to geo cache (often unsuccessfully) in Vicksburg this past summer, we literally stumbled onto one in the cemetery.

Even though we were only there for 23 hours this time,

I love this place.

A Fall Baby Shower

 My friend, Roxanne and I gave our friends Chad and MaryBeth a couples dessert shower for their new little boy arriving next month.  We did a fall theme since Clayton will be our newest little pumpkin.

 Roxanne's house looked great for fall

I made the diaper cake

Roxanne carved the initials

We made the desserts together

The happy parents

Saturday Evening in October

How Do You Like Them Apples?

 I do know this isn't an apple but it is a beautiful radish from our garden - the first thing we've picked.  We've got some baby squash growing that will hopefully be ready soon!

Fall Weekend at the Lake

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Quite nicely. Thanks for asking.  

 This is our community garden behind Sophie's school.  It brings me joy to drive up to it every day.

 This is our own little square garden.

And now we have another one.  At Sophie's school students can participate in a research project every year. They are supposed to pick a global problem and work on it at a local level.  Last year Sophie's group chose lack of water as their global problem and raised money for water wells at a local level.  This year her group has chosen world hunger as their topic.  They are tackling it locally by participating in the community garden and helping to educate others about it.

 This week her group planted their own fall garden.

Hope we get some veggies soon!