September...and October...

The days are long but the years are short...so true!

Here are some highlights from the last two months:

We added two new pets to our family in September...Mikey/Templeton the rat and Ashes the mouse

The rat is much "friendlier" than the mouse

Nephew #1 started playing football this year!  He's carrying the ball in the white jersey

Lucy and her BIG cousins after a game

Since my food/garden blog doesn't get updated very often, I wanted to include my oxblood lilies here

Lucy, using the rat and a white board to wish Oma a Happy Birthday!

Lucy took this picture of Jimmy--so handsome!

Fall Fair at church

I was also re-commissioned for my second year as a Stephen Minister

Now...on to October:

Lucy enjoys posing Jimmy for pictures, hoping he'll get "famis" on the internet

"Use the force"

We celebrated White Cane Day in Austin again this year.  They had the rock wall and usual activities

Go Lucy Go!

Free BBQ for lunch!  Chelsea was not impressed

Happy Birthday, Opa! *rat not included this time

Lucy's first piano recital with her teacher, Ms. Jen

Ms. Jen's students

Oma and Opa took us out for ice cream afterwards--yum!

A trunk-or-treat before Halloween--Lucy went as a witch to this one

And on Halloween night, she was R2D2