Nana and Pop visit

Mason and Alice had a visit from their Nana and Pop (as Mason decided Ken's dad should be called) over the weekend.

On Saturday we went to the park and enjoyed the swings.

The highlight though was probably our bike ride on Sunday. Jeni hadn't been on a bike in two years and Alice had never ridden in the bike trailer before. Mason was good and scooted over to make room for Alice and some toys.

Poor Alice was tired and would fall asleep only to awaken when we went over bumps. She and Mason did pretty well together though. Jeni did great as well.

Time to rake the leaves

Last weekend was our first pass at raking up the leaves. The trees in the back are still about half covered, which means that we'll have to rake again soon and Mason will have another chance to jump into the leaf piles.

Alice enjoyed just sitting in the pile with the occasional nibble of a leaf.

This might be the best picture of Mason and Alice that we've taken in months.

Happy Halloween

Mason and Alice both dressed up as robots for Halloween. We went trick-or-treating with Leo for the third straight year. He went as Charlie-Brown-as-a-Ghost.

I think you can see that Alice is still awake when this picture was taken, but she fell asleep soon after.

Feeding the squirrels

Mason and I carved a pumpkin and we have also been refilling the bird feeder regularly. In other words, we've been feeding the squirrels. They are pretty entertaining though.

The Great Pumpkin Patch

Like last year, we went down to the Great Pumpkin Patch in Arthur to buy some pumpkins (including black Japanese pumpkins) for making pie (and cookies and brownies and muffins).

We also took lots of pictures.

Fall walk in the woods

We've really been enjoying the fall (when it hasn't been raining). A few weeks ago we went for a walk in Busey Woods with Bubba and Gramp (Mason's new name for Jeni's dad).

Yes, Mason's sweatshirt is on backwards. He likes it that way sometimes.