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Here are some pics of the kids at "family fun night" last night and their school and tonight.

Fall is in the air

Well it's that time again, when you wake in the mornings with frost on the ground and ice on your windows. The day slowly gets warm and just when you think the day is warm and beautiful, the sun goes down and it's cold again. That being said, we have tried to take advantage of the warm weekends to get some things down around the house and go see the beautiful fall Foilage in Ontario. For those of you who don't know Ottawa has the most beautiful tree colors I have ever seen. There are Red, orange, yellow, green and Brown. The red and orange leaves stand out the most. While on one of our excursions I tried to capture the colors but the pictures do not do it justice. It is something you just have to experience.



Our excurions this Fall have not included our typical Gatineau Park or Pumpkin Farm. This year we went to The Mill of Kintail(about 15min from our house) and Luskville Falls(on the Quebec side. Both had hiking trails, an abundance of colorful leaves and water. The kids love throwing rocks or twigs in the water and looking for different insects etc.. I was happy i could get a few nice pictures.

Last night Ron racked the leaves in the front yard and made piles for the kids to jump in. They had lots of fun but became cold fast and were in the house for some hot chocolate. I must say I'm glad we don't have as many trees as some of our neighbours or we could be out there for days (like them) raking those leaves.
The weather is cooling down and were supposed to have some rain. I just hope it doesn't turn to snow.
Happy Fall

Mmmmmm Donuts

Friday I gave Riley a little more power on the ATV and he figured out how to do power slides and donuts....of course Kiera had to try as well but since we don't give her enough power, she couldn't really do it. She has been enjoying the ATV lots though and can drive it all around by herself.






-Ron

Drums

Riley got some drums for his birthday. So far both kids have been enjoying them. Riley can't get the "Darth Vader" song out of his head and basically always ends up playing it. Kiera didn't feel like playing them today so no video of her.






-Ron

Concert time

The kids like to put on concerts. Here is one from the other night. First up is Kiera singing a song her and Riley wrote about a tornado.




Next is Riley "singing" a Barenaked Ladies song off their kids album.

And finally Kiera again...unfortunately the kids love xmas music so we end up listening to it all year round :)

Homemade video game

For some reason Riley decided to start making his own hand-held video games. They have all different buttons for jumping, spinning, electricity and other stuff. Kiera and he can sit there for quite a long time playing these imaginary games.

He just made a new one ( picture below ) this weekend. This one is special as it can transform into a laptop...and its a good thing too cause he was able to log onto the transformer website and watch the new transformer movie ( which comes out next year! ) yesterday while we drove to the "Mill of Kintale"to go for a hike. Kiera and he watched movies on their pretend videogame/laptops the whole way there...crazy.

Upgrade from Frog to Snake

Frogs are sooo last week. We've upgraded to snakes. I caught this one along the side of our house the other day. The kids really liked it ( we've been trying to catch one that seems to live in our ditch for a while now ). When we let it go, we had to drive down to the river so that Mel will go outside again :)