Goodbye summer, hello gorgeous fall!

Well, summer is gone for another 7 months or so and luckily I live in a place where every season makes me fall in love with this state over and over again. It's been 3 months since I last posted but I have very good reasons, I PROMISE!

A week before Halloween my friends Jean and Jackie came down to help me carve 8 pumpkins, we may have cheated a little bit with a little pumpkin saw but it was worth the 3 hours of hard work! This year was the first year I put mums out on our farmers porch and it looked beaauuuutiful with the pumpkins! I am becoming a little domesticated after all!

Jean's masterpiece :-)

ROLEAU!

My mom and Jan have decided they like visiting me in Vermont after all! I got them to come up in August and then they came up again in October. I think my master plan to get them to retire up here might be working... maybe a little?? We went over to the Stowe Foliage Arts Festival, took them to dinner at Stary Night Cafe in Ferrisburgh (definitely my favorite restaurant) and then we did a small hike in Bristol to check out the foliage... for sure the best it's been in years!

In the picture above, my house is somewhere in the middle left top (does that make sense?) corner.

I was desperately trying to get a picture of a single leaf falling from a tree... mom moved along the process :-)

My little boy... last month, probably about 75-80 lbs... and still growing!!

Apple picking down in NH with Stace!

Mom, John and I at my cousin Diana's (Jan's neice) down in Block Island, RI, so fun!

John and I playing with the grass... he started it!

A few pictures from this years HBA trade show down in NYC. Going to the largest health and beauty show and having to stay at a hotel right in Time Square was not the worst time I've ever spent at work...!
My boss and I

A few pictures from our last boating trip!! John and I miss it SO MUCH! I cannot wait to get out next year now that we're a little more experienced with the whole pack up and boat for the whole weekend deal. These were taken at Lake Sunapee down in NH but we spent most of our time on Lake Champlain.

Farley finds it necessary to sit on the center console while riding in the truck... pretty soon his head won't even be able to fit up there!