Halloween!!!!

Ellie the little Princess! 
All of the Trick-or-treaters loved her costume!
Our Mantle all decked out for the spooky holiday!
Us in our Costumes... Princess Bride!!!! Oh Westley!!!

We have been ready for Halloween since the beginning of September! Yep I was a little antsy to but up holiday stuff in our home! Now I am dying to decorate for Christmas!!!! I have to wait until after Thanksgiving!!!

Sky Line Drive

We bought an annual pass to Sky Line Dr. It is a national park that is 150 miles long and sits atop the Shenandoah Valley. We had a great time looking at animals, I liked the fuzzy caterpillars, Brian liked the deer, seeing the leaves, and having a yummy picnic! I think this beautiful getaway might become a regular on our list!

Tractors, Tractors, Where are the SUV's

So I was at work and greeting the students as they got to school..I do this every other week it is what I do instead of recess duty...When all of the sudden I had to do a double take I saw a huge red tractor headed my way... More than that there were little boys riding on hay in the trailer being pulled by the tractor!!!! What!!!!! I thought kids were supposed to come to school on buses, or in mini-vans, or maybe a SUV....It is true in Bunker Hill they sometime arrive on tractors! Once I pulled my jaw up to its normal spot I ran to get my camera this was something that needed to be documented!!! It turned out that the kindergarten was having their own stay-cation and instead of doing their normal fall field trip they brought the farm on over... The high school FFA kids brought cows, sheep, goats, kittens, pigs, and puppies, they went on hay rides on the tractor it was intriguing!!!! I would have loved this when I was little!!!! 

Fort Monroe

I love the beach!!!
I was amazed the crabs tail was leathery!!
Being Silly!!!
Brian and I were looking out at Naval Ships!

We went down to Williamsburg and thanks to DAVE (he is retired Air force, I am still learning about the ranking but he was ranked pretty high before he retired!) he got us on to fort Monroe. It has a MOAT... a real MOAT! Yes a fairy tale &castles MOAT! It was actually built to protect against an attack from the sea.  It was neat to see houses that Abraham Lincoln stayed in and the cells where they jailed the leaders of the south after the Civil War. It was also fun to listen to stories about all of the rules Dave broke when he was a kid growing up there! I really loved playing with the dead horse-shoe crabs on the beach... I was amazed they were huge! I guess all of my dads tide-pool lessons when I was little paid off!!! We also saw a shark egg... I can't wait for our next Williamsburg adventure!

FLOWERS

WOW! My life has changed so much...last September the only flowers I was worried about were the ones that got sent to my school! This September I have spent hours worrying about planting flowers in my front yard! I am loving the change! So, I have been reading about fall flowers, digging, fertilizing (eww), and planting! I will have to take some pics and put them up. I am very excited because our yard has some color in it!!! Brian has been very patient with this whole process because he can do anything, its true, he just knows how to do every possible thing I can think of for us to work on and instead of doing it him self (that would have been the quicker and quieter choice) he walked me through the entire thing so I could feel like I did it. AHHH! He really is great! I just hope I don't kill my new project too soon!

Fun WIth The New Family

We love visiting Brian's Mom & Dave

Brian using his COWBOY skills!!!
They were doing a reinactment... prople were sleeping in these tents on straw!
OUr cute family with one of the guards... The buttons on his uniform were all hand cast and they were IMPRESSIVE!
Ellie and her dad checking out the chicks of long ago!

Brian's mom and step dad live in Williamsburg... it is sooo cool!!! We have gone down a few times to visit and check out some of the many tourist hot spots there.... Ellie even got in on the fun!

Moving

Brian had to move all of my stuff across country... He came out the last day of the school year!!! As if the last day isn't crazy enough!  We filled up a huge 28 foot U-Hal here is a picture of just one of the rooms we unpacked this summer... Luckily Brian's brother (he is cute and single)  helped and made the drive with Brian. Then his family came over and helped him unload the truck... Thanks Fam!!!! I think it drove Brian nuts to go from a regular place to a home full of boxes, wedding stuff, and of corse HOME DECOR!!!!! By the way I miss Ti-pan something fierce!!!