gardenfest

tonight was free member night for the Gardenfest of Lights at Lewis Ginter...

tannenbaum

assistant

the younger son helped daddy rake leaves...

reflections

for her upcoming birthday, the younger son & i took my mom to the VA Museum of Fine Arts today to see the Secrets of the Mummy's Tomb exhibit...  photography was not allowed in that particular exhibit, although i did take a few pictures in other parts of the museum.  out of those i did take, i found myself drawn to the ones of my son's reflection:

neighborhood walk

with the eldest, while trying to get the youngest to sleep on my back...

autumn leaves

what happens when you forget about the bags of leaves that daddy & the boys collected to make fall art, and your baby finds it:

here comes the sun

weekend at grammie's

we spent the weekend in my hometown to attend a dinner celebrating what would have been my grandfather's 100th birthday, where there was some impromptu music and dancing...

the rest of the weekend involved some outdoor play...

and trunk-or-treating at my mom's church... 

and a few special moments glimpsing the past~ reading letters my grandparents had written to each other...  

goblins & gourds

we love the goblins & gourds festival every year at lewis ginter!

sonic the hedgehog and batman

skeleton bitty dancing to the Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra

welcome to the machine

today our homeschool bowling league got treated to a behind the scenes look at what goes on in the lanes...  

after the tour, the manager raised the panels above the lanes so that we could actually see the machines at work, since they had to turn them off while we were in the back.