Remarkably, no one's shoes got wet on this hike. It was a minor miracle.

On Saturday, we tried out yet another beautiful fall hike. It was chilly and very windy when we reached the overlook at the top of the hill, but that was okay. Because forest fairies don't mind the wind at all. In fact, they quite like it — it helps them flit around the trees.

Yep, we carved pumpkins this afternoon. Which basically means that the girls each scribbled drew a face on a pumpkin, and Adam and I did our best to carve them as ordered. I think we all did a pretty good job.

Every fall, Adam plays a game with the girls where he shakes skinny trees so that their leaves fall, and the girls scramble around to try to catch them. Grace is (finally) getting pretty good at this, but Tess is not so lucky. After watching Grace catch several leaves on Sunday, Tess was was sad…

Saturday morning, we told the girls we were going on a hike, and to please get dressed appropriately. So they came down dressed like this — and calling themselves the "pretty girls." I suppose when you're going to take a hike at the height of the fall colors, you want to dress as beautifully as…

On Sunday morning we went to Bradbury Mountain for our annual fall foliage hike. It was, as always, breathtaking (although the leaves weren't quite at their peak). Tess had been asking about her baby backpack, the one we used to bring her to Bradbury Mountain in. We told her she's too big for it now,…