The rains finally came, the Halloween decorations are in the stores, we're starting to get busy with holiday portraits. Fall is here! Soon the temperature will start dropping, the leaves will change colors, and we'll be making our holiday plans. Time keeps flying!

I guess the true marks of time are children's birthdays... Robert just celebrated his first year with his mommy, daddy, and cake. And Morgan just had an awesome circus party to celebrate her fourth birthday, complete with cupcake-decorating, a pinata, trampoline-jumping, cake, and cotton candy!

We spent a wonderful Grandparents' Day with my parents a couple of weeks ago. We took them to Fiesta Texas for an afternoon of enjoying rides with Ben. And to thank them for all the free babysitting and for being such fantastic grandparents, Ben gave them their first digital camera. It was such a treat to be able to do that for them! And we spent last weekend down south, down Corpus Christi-way. We had a great visit with my grandparents in Orange Grove. And then we spent a day at the beach in Port A, chasing Ben in and out of the water, helping him jump the waves, and joining him in his sand castle-building. It was a great way to end the summer.

"The Fall of the year, the Fall of the year, is really a very good name, it's clear: for leaves fall down all over town. They fall on their feet and they fall on their crown, they fall from the trees till the lawns are brown when Summer is over and Fall is here, in the falling-down time of year." --Aileen Fisher