Fun fall thursday

It was unseasonable warm today - I was itching to get out of work so I could come home and play outside in all the leaves, er I mean, lack thereof. Hopefully this year, we can work on ripping a few trees out, as 2 of them are dead and the other is knocking on heaven's door. Our very overgrown front yard is going to have to wait until next year mostly due to the fact that we can't replant anything until next year and because we don't have a lot of time. I guess we would force ourselves to do it, but winter is coming, so we'll just wait until spring. It's a hot mess, though. .

So we finally decided to put up some outside Halloween decorations. In fact, it was actually Jason's idea. What? It's only a week before Halloween you say? Hmm. Ok yes, we've procrastinated and yes, the decorations have been sitting in our hallway collecting dust and making my type A go insane. That is neither here nor there. No, it IS here and there because it's been on our minds, doesn't that count for something? We've been meaning to get to it, but just been really really busy. Ok, no more excuses, point is we finally got it up. And the best part about it was we didn't have enough outdoor extension cords so we couldn't even light it all up. Wait, I take that back, the best part was being outside! We've been couped up for a while and Marley has been sick off and on, so we were trying not to take her out if we didn't have to, especially since the whole dang world seems to have the swine. She loves it. I love watching her look at everything with the most concentrated look and sometimes I forget she is seeing things for the very first time. Sure, she's felt the wind before, but she opens her mouth and giggles. I can only imagine it tickles and it makes her laugh, and I love every minute. I wish I could freeze this age - so full of wonder....

We came outside and to our surprise had a street, a parking garage, a boat dock and stop signs all over our sidewalks and driveway. I even stood in the lake and according to Justin, drowned in minutes.

Watching the neighbors ride their bikes. They yelled "Marrrrley" as they scooted past

There are so many decisions in life...which way to go?

In the end, we choose the path less traveled (thanks to the neighbor kids for helping lead the way and chalking it out for us)