Each and every day the Lord breaths into us life full and abundant! It is truly a miracle, and I am ever thankful for each and every day I awake...healthy and full of life!
The children are growing and changing daily... I can hardly keep up with them...
The autumn days have been splendid here in Idaho.
The Ash in the backyard was stunning this year!
We have spent many an hour walking with friends, making soups, putting up tomato sauce and baking yummy fall pies and cakes...We have been riding bikes, raking leaves, sitting out on the back porch after dinner and basking in the miracle of being back in our home.
A weekend trip to Salem, Oregon...
We happened upon this amazing tree that Thomas had to climb.
It was a rite of passage for this adventurous ten year old boy.
Autumn is one of my favorite seasons. Truth be told... I love all of them... each has it's special meaning and place. Autumn is one of warmth and storing up for the long winter.
It is a time of thanking the Lord for the bounty that summer has afforded.
All throughout the season, my hubby has been buying me bushels of Mums!
He knows how much I love them....
A gift from my husband... we have always dreamed of having rocking chairs on our front porch to sit and watch the world go by in our retirement. After this year, we have decided life is too short to wait for such an occasion...
With the lengthening evenings, it is a time to slow down a bit, eat dinner by candlelight, read books together by the fireside and treasure each other all the more.
"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
