Welcome, Fall

It's the first day of Fall, September 22.  What a great day for pumpkin spice hot chocolate and spiced apple cider.  Yumm.

And what a great day for us to just be ourselves.

Organization- A Reason to Celebrate

O.K.  So today, September 22, is the Autumnal Equinox.  We already celebrated by going out to enjoy the Fall colors last week .  Today, September 22, is also Hobbit Day.  The kids and I celebrated just a little.  I showed them a few select parts of The Lord of the Rings movies (nothing too scary).  Just a couple parts in the Shire "concerning hobbits."  Jeremy's got BIG plans to celebrate next week.

So what did I do today?
Something that has been on my To Do list for a long time.

Organized our pantry.

Here are some reasons why this is worth celebrating:
We can now close our pantry doors and I will no longer trip on things or have to step over things to get items out.

There are no longer random pantry items in various places in the apartment.

This project is no longer consuming so much of my thoughts and time and space that I can now focus on getting other things clean and organized enough for Jeremy's BIG project next week.

So we're all set... until the next time we go shopping.

Autumn

It's Fall. It's Autumn. It is no longer Summer. We celebrated as a family by going hiking in the Big Springs area up Provo Canyon. Twice in two days. The first day we enjoyed the fall colors. It had rained that morning and was still cloudy so it was absolutely gorgeous.

The second day, we still enjoyed the fall colors, but we also had fun taking some family pictures. It was fun and challenging with our two little ones

but we also got some sweet family pictures.

Remember, you can click on the pictures to see them larger.