The Leonard Family: The Leonard's LOVE Fall!

It is that time of year again that we talk about...well, all year! We love October! It's just such a great time! Everything (our house with all the candles) smells like pumpkin spice, the mornings are really cool, the afternoons are sunny and clear, we sleep with the windows open, bake pumpkin pies (oh, how we love them), visit LOTS of Fall festivals, start making soups, get out the Fall decorations, and spend lots of time outside! We just love it!
Our October has started off so great! Last weekend, we went to the Greek Festival with the Coopers (3rd or 4th year in a row) on Friday night and had so much fun. It was the first year that Caroline and Jack could actually get on some of the rides... and they had a blast! They rode a little train (that actually went pretty fast), jumped in the bouncy house, and went down a really big slide all by themselves! Saturday was Morgan's birthday party (Yet another bouncy house that Jack wanted to stay in the whole time). I had two great showers over the weekend with some really great friends! Saturday was a fun get together with the neighborhood girls. I feel so very lucky to have such a great group of girls right here in the neighborhood. They are so great and they were very excited about Lucy getting here! On Sunday... Julie, Elizabeth, Ruby, and Joy had a great shower for me at Julie's house. It was a small group and we spent most of the time talking about the kids and our husbands (how fabulous they are, of course?!). It is a great feeling to have my closest friends around me and for them to be so excited about Lucy coming. It's also fabulous to get together during the day and eat cake and talk with girls with no kids running around! I am thinking about putting togthter some "Showers" once a month!

This weekend has been amazing. (We, of course miss Jack TERRIBLY...but!) Jack has been with Nunno and Poppa since Thursday night. He absolutely LOVES it up there with them...so really, Steven and I are just sacrificing for his happiness right? Anyway, Steven and I have had the best time. We both had Friday off and spent the day running errands. We had a fun breakfast date and then ran all over Atlanta running errands...that may not sound like tons of fun, but it was so much fun to us! We ended at Costco and got a pizza to take home! Yesterday, we stayed home working on projects all day! We finally showered around 4:30, ran a few more errands and went to dinner! We are now enjoying our mornings of coffee and quiet!
We got so much done!!! We put up all the new stuff in the kids bathroom, put up all the decals on Jack's wall to make it look like "Jack's Landing Strip", hung up pictures and frames in Lucy's room, set up our wireless internet (which is allowing me to sit and drink coffee with Steven and update the blog!), got out all the "baby" stuff from the attic and cleaned it, cleaned up the house, did lots of Christmas shopping, ,and ran a TON of errands! Whew! We may spend the rest of the morning not doing much of anything!

It's a great time of year and we are loving it! Next weekend we are going to Gainesville and going to Bert's Farm on Sunday! One of our FAVORITE traditions! Now...back to coffee time!

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