Boone!

Cody's sister Meg and her husband Tim and their sweet baby Ruby live in Boone, NC.  Boone is awesome in the fall-- it actually is fall, unlike Charleston which still feels like Michigan in July, even though it is now Halloween.  Every year since Meg and Tim have moved to Boone we've tried to go up to visit in mid-October.  Sean constantly talks about Boone as if it were Disneyland.  He likes to plan our next trip to Boone, plan what toys and books he will take with him and what we will do (usually involves throwing leaves with Tim in the front yard).  This year lived up to his dreams....

Sean waiting for the leaves to fall in the front yard so he can gather them and throw them.  

Meg and me at the Farmers' Market with our sweet babies in varying degrees of wool.  

You would never know it, but its actually about 60 degrees in this picture.  Sean was so excited to get to wear gloves, he wore them for about 6 hours straight on Saturday. He also needed his hood on at all times and needed to drink hot chocolate to warm up.  

Here is Sean on our hike.  The theme from Little House on the Prairie is playing in the background.  Gloves still on.  There were some horses on our trail and when we first saw them he said, "There must be Shoshones  (Indians) around!"  We learned recently that the Shoshones were great lovers of horses.  Therefore, where there are horses there are Shoshones.  He also asked a woman with feathery gray hair on the trail if she was an Indian.  

Baby in a backpack!

Cousin Ruby.  The boys LOVE her.  Can you blame them?  She is so sweet. 

Satisfaction.  

Love. 

They are practicing for their modelling job for the Kelly's Kids catalog. 

Throwing leaves....I've been waiting for this all year!

The picture is kid of dark, but you can get the picture-- We are hiking with many children strapped to us in different ways.  I like to call this look "Crunchy Catholic."  

A view from above with three of the four babies with us.  I love this picture.  Everyone doing their own thing.