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!

Signs of Fall

 With temps continuing to exceed 100 degrees there is only one sure way to know it is fall around here....BUTTERFLIES!  Every year they grace us with their presence for a few short days and then they are off again.  As soon as I saw a few flitter across the playground at work I knew it was time to go to our special spot by the lily ponds and they didn't disappoint.