Fall has come (and almost gone!)

People in Alaska joke that we have about one week of fall.  I thought they were kidding, but it's almost true.  Summer ends pretty abruptly, fall lasts a few weeks, and then the cold weather sets in.  In fact, we got our first day of snow on September 23!  Luckily, it only lasted a few hours and melted pretty quickly.  I still need time to get snow tires on our car!!  But we have also been blessed with super awesome rainbows a few times.

I woke up to him yelling in my face, "It's snowing!!!"

Gorgeous setting makes doing dishes 10 x better :) 

Snow-capped mountain; leaves changing colors

So Alaskans don't wait around until October to celebrate fall and pick out pumpkins. We went to a fall festival at the base of Pioneer Peak (the mountain shown above) this past weekend.  It was a lot of fun despite the nippy weather and kids slipping in mud puddles.

He is not very agile on his feet, especially when bundled up. So he gets sentenced to the stroller on most outings. 

I couldn't bring myself to actually buy a pumpkin in September, so we just took a picture instead. :) 

Sucking on "honey sticks".

This poor kid couldn't get the tractor to start. So they just sat there for the "ride".

Now this is more like it!

This farm is owned by LDS church members and the Bishop's storehouse is on-site.  It's also a U-Pick farm, so we got to pick some delicious garden vegetables. 

Harvesting some rhubarb...for pie!!

Take a look at those carrots!

Some other fun outdoors before it gets too cold here:

Love this one :)

And apparently it's not too cold to send naked/ninja toddlers outside....yet.

Happy Fall!