Cute kids and baby kittens and a Turkey's last hour

A Friday in the Snow with Dad

Tule Lake for wildlife and caves

I'll let Mike put in the fotos for the wildlife,, but here are some of the caves and hikes we took--

First snow

Halloween

Ready to go trick or treating-- at this point it was struggle to get Paddy out of the door as he had found the candy- wrappers and all
Jake the Bear and Paddy the dragon and Dominic the cowboy ready to leave- after sampling our candy...

After trick or treating- Dominic with the spooky mask- before we left for trick or treating; Dominic had answered the door with out pants and without underwear!! Thankfully he is only 3,,, creepy indeed.

Paddy ready for more candy-

Dominic at school- with pirates, princesses and spidy

Kids at the preschool- almost ready to leave-

Mike's sole intent this year was to have ME win the pumpkin carving contest-- so after careful thought the HONKERS, our school mascot- I was sure would win. No more carved baskets with flowers but our high school mascot- a sure winner, then some others to buffer the votes, spread them out a bit...

Mike worked very hard on them all-- but the mold took them over the day before the contest, and Paddy kicked one in the face as well-- we entered the 3rd one above and got 3rd place out of 4 pumpkins. Incidently the winning pumpkin was AWESOME,, i'm going to try to find a picture of it, shellac'ed and on a mission-- they knew I wanted the prize and they stepped it up with the drummel and paint and shellac--