Fall Days

Owen loves to play with his friends Noah and Roman.  Here they are one afternoon creating a new geotrack layout....  They built most of this on their own, then asked for some help to bring all the loops together!

A great picture of Molly and "her dog" Bailey.   Bailey is so tolerant of her loving... :)

One morning our little spider friend created a huge web outside our front door.  He was there for almost a week catching bugs.

Thanksgiving in Canada falls on October 10th.  Our friends graciously invited us over to their annual family & friends gathering to celebrate with them.  We had a great time and the kids enjoying playing together as usual....here with a rousing game of hungry hippos! 

Party girl with the smile...

Reading about dinosaurs with the boys

We made a cheesecake for desert.... white chocolate rasberry.   Art with food.

We had a crisp Saturday morning in October and it had been raining all week, so we needed to get outside for some air and running around.  We decided to go over to Belcarra park, which is on the other side of Burrard Inlet.  They have a great playground and dock.   Belcarra park site

Molly and Allison on the bouning see saw.  She deliberately wanted to ride it with both of us... swapping places with brother...  

And her turn with daddy!

Owen on the disk swing and Molly helping to push.

The crew walking through the park down to the dock.  It was beautiful as the sun came over the hill.

On the pier with the kids.

This picture ended up overexposed, but the leaves were so bright it was almost glowing.

Lions and tigers and ummm...   OH MY!

So when the kids were running across the dew covered grass, their shoes and socks got wet.   Owen convinced Molly that she would look cool if she pulled up her pants and socks.  So this is what I discovered when I went to get her out of her carseat. At least she was laughing about it.....

The next weekend we had nice weather again so we search out a corn maze that we thought the kids would enjoy doing.  They had a petting zoo, tractor rides and a walking tour through the woods with cartoon character settings.  It was simple and fun and the kids enjoyed it.  They had some teepee's setup that the kids could walk around and in.  I thought this peak against the blue sky was pretty.

Allison and the kids ready to start in the corn maze. Molly was giving a little attitude as you can see.

She said she was scared, so she ended up riding on my shoulders.  Here we are in the middle of the maze.

Owen the pirate.... ARRRRGGHH  May Tee!

Molly was so excited to come across Cinderella.

I had to laugh out-loud in the petting zoo area.  Here Molly was bending over and saying "cockle doodle doo!"

After a haircut..  Love this smile and laugh.  It's the best description of Owen.

Salmon is a huge industry in BC and when they begin to run in the creeks, there are several local festivals celebrating the event.  Locally in Coquitlam, the Hyde Creek Watershed society organizes a Salmon Festival.  They have activities for the kids and many locations along the creek to watch the fish. I was really suprised that there were so many fish climbing up the small creek!

Here's Molly "fishing" for a small prize.

Owen spinning the wheel showing the lifecycle of the salmon.

BC Hydro usually has a green energy and recycling stand at all the local events.  Here they had a small experiment with a "potato battery".  Owen thought it was really cool.

 

Just a pretty picture of the leaves