Over the last couple weekends, we have enjoyed the beautiful fall colors. Last weekend, we went hiking at the Kings Mountain National Battlefield. We enjoyed the scenery, history, and occasional rainstorm of yellow leaves falling each time the wind blew. The weekend before that, we had a picnic in the woods behind Russell's Grandma and Grandpa's house. We even experienced a bird's eye view of the foliage from atop Grandpa's ladder stand . . .
Russell and Daddy have a halloween tradition of carving a jack-o-lantern together. This year they carved pumpkins from our own bumper crop of eight mini-pumpkins. They carved the one on the left together. Russell wanted it to look like his trick-or-treat pumpkin he was taking out halloween night. The other two were solo jobs for Dad, but Russell still claims them all as his. They looked really cool from the street when they were all lit up halloween night! 
