I heart Autumn!

I heart crisp cool weather.

I heart leaves changing colors.

I heart hayrides, corn mazes, and pumpkin picking.

Heck! I just plain old heart all things pumpkin

(jack o' lanterns, pie, cookies...mmm).

I heart sweaters.

I heart hats.

I heart shorter days.

I heart autumn hot-air-balloon-festivals

that-are-too-windy-for-hot-air-balloons

and

autumn birthdays-pretending-to-be-summer-luaus.

But I especially heart princesses and cowboys,

or rather,

one particular princess and cowboy.

(I also heart adding photos in backwards chronological order

...you know,...on purpose...

just to see who is paying attention.)

This cowboy needed a little shut eye on the way to the hoe-down!

It's amazing what a hankerchief and a tinfoil belt buckle
can do to transform a boy into a COWBOY...
but he came up with tough guy look all on his own
-- by taking a tumble a couple weeks before! Augh!


If you know Lily well,
then you probably didn't bother
asking what she wanted to be for
Halloween. :)

This is what happens

when you ask two small children to
"not touch the flags," "stand still,

and

"look at mommy and smile"

on a very windy day --

was it too much to process?

Here's a picture of our happy boy pre-shiner!

And, of course, our happy girl hamming it up!

The weather was beautiful for the luau.

We even had an active volcano!