The view from my window.

Oh, how I wish I had my camera! The weather is just gorgeous here and since October was so dreary and drizzly, we are basking in the sunshine and warmth outside every scheduled minute we can :-). It's been so cute watching the kids play and I keep seeing moments I would normally capture with my precious camera, so since it is apparently gone for good and the budget doesn't warrant a replacement just yet, I'll give the you the best description I can.

Ashlynn has on a pair of red, comfy cotton cropped pants with tiny cream hearts all over them. She is wearing her tan Ugg boots with a multicolored pink long-sleeved shirt and a bright pink Green Bay Packers beanie. Seriously a photo-op for all times! She has the football in her hands and is running with wild abandon, giggling all over the back yard. I can see my carefree girl traveling the world and living at the beach one day!

Gage has on a blue pair of track pants with a t-shirt that has some sort of truck on it. I'm pretty sure there are no shirts without some sort of truck/motorcycle/dinosaur/etc available for three year old boys. He has a Cars beanie on his head and is chasing after Ashlynn, gets a hold of her for a moment and crashes down through the leaves like a linebacker who's missed his man. He doesn't even wince and gets right back up to chase again. He just might be a lineman one day, and the running back had better hope to have Ashlynn's luck!

Addie, with her tan coat striped cotton pants and sparkly pink shoes is plopped down in the horseshoe pit and methodically scooping tiny shovels of sand into the dump truck. She is very diligent in her work and has not missed the dump end once. The surrounding chaos doesn't even phase her........definitely a fourth child and an air traffic controller in the making.

Ryder, in his usual pair of shorts, t-shirt and flip flops, is climbing the swing set. He has the swings and ropes twisted into wild knots and keeps calling, "look at me mom!", while maneuvering jumping from one pole to the next. I will not be shocked if this kid climbs rocks for a living one day, though he might pursue that for a hobby and settle on engineering so he can challenge even the best builders.

Hopefully this will help me to remember what I saw today when I looked out the window, every minute that passes takes a little piece from my memory and there is no way to slow that down!