This evening I had one of those “the house is too quiet” moments. 

I was working on dinner and realized I did not hear toys banging together or the running of little feet or the ramblings of an almost one year old.  Off I went to find Anna.  She had gone back downstairs and was sitting on the floor next to the recliner……drinking from Damion’s cup of mocha from Seattle’s Best.  Why?  Because she had already emptied his cup of coffee from this morning.  Most of the remaining bits of drinks had been dumped on the carpet so we don’t think she drank too much.  She was happily sitting there until we moved her away to clean up the mess.  But she needed to be cleaned up too because she had mocha on her face, legs and arms. 

The mess has since been cleaned up and carpet spot treatments applied.  Anna has been wiped down but still smells like a walking cup of mocha.

Well....sort of.  Anyways, I'm excited about it.

The only thing that is missing at this time is the gallery.  Damion is in the process of getting it up and functioning correctly.  We'd probably have it by now but I have requested that every effort be made to bring back Anna's gallery with all the captioning and info that we had.  So, fingers crossed.  

Basically I wanted to go to an apple place, don’t know why, just did, so we did.  This past weekend we met up with Matt and Tiffany and went to a not so good place but then we went to Tanners Orchard.  Tanners Rocked!  Of course we took the camera with us and took bunches of pictures.  It was a fun day topped off by dinner with Tiffany’s parents and apple pie back at Matt & Tiff’s.  For a day that looked like it might not be so good, it was great!

While at Tanners we watched kids ride around the property while sitting in barrels pulled by a tractor.  It looked like soooo much fun.  Unfortunately we didn't see the adult version of it though.  As we walked by the new group getting started the barrels started to tip over!!!  Fortunately the driver stopped as soon as people started flagging him down.  Damion rushed to help, with Anna in his arms.  He came back quick and passed her off and there he went.  Fortunately none of the kids were seriously injured, just a couple of scrapes.  Kudos to the driver though who recognized he was not in any emotional/mental condition to keep driving the ride.  We later saw him in the market and he gave us a apple donut to try and his personal favorite apple for pie.  Nice guy.

I’ve also put up some more pictures in Anna’s gallery.  There are some from yesterday and today but also some from a couple of days in September.  If you look closely at the pictures from today you’ll see her three established teeth and maybe you can see one of the three that are starting to make an appearance.

Ice has formed in fire and brimestone land.

That's right, you guessed it.... Rob actually put a posting up on his site.  I'm suprised I didn't see this on Google News.