Fall is here!

I'm so embarrassed that it's been since the early summer from when I posted last. I know you're supposed to keep up on these things, but I guess having a baby does take up a lot of your time! :) Better late than never! Happy Fall everybody! The leaves are slowly changing their color, and there is a crispness in the air. Even though this part of CA usually stays in the 70's year round, we do get a cooler day or two which does remind me that it's fall. We turned our clocks back this weekend, so it gets darker sooner, but we are looking forward to the holidays, where the lights twinkle in the midnight sky (how do you like that for blogging vernacular? :)

If you know our family, you know that we are always traveling. It doesn't seem like that has stopped since having Lily! Drew has been a mountaineering machine the past few months - climbing Mount Olympus in Washington, the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, and most recently, a 10 day trip to summit Pico De Orazaba in Mexico. All of these mountains are thousands of feet above sea level and he has guided them all with several of his close guy friends. Way to go Drew! We are so proud of him and look forward to him climbing Mt. McKinley in the summer of 2014.

I have acquired 7 piano students over the past few months, and have been teaching out of our condo on our baby grand piano. I absolutely love my students ( 3 adults, 4 kids!) and enjoy seeing them progress in their music. I'm currently assigning Christmas music, which I cannot wait to pull out my own stash of tunes and play/sing! This weekend, I'm traveling to the Bay Area to play piano for a friend's church. I'm glad I get to still play piano while staying at home with the baby.

Lily is growing like crazy and is getting cuter by the day! Her most recent accomplishment is learning to pull herself up and stand...only to fall on her bottom and then crawl over to the next thing that interests her:) She'll be 8 months old this week. It blows my mind that she'll be 1 in just a few short months. We are so blessed to have her in our lives. She makes us laugh every day! Her favorite word is "da-da" although we're not sure if she's associated Drew yet with this word. She just likes saying it over and over! Hudson is so good with her, and I think they are becoming friends. Every morning, Lily will crawl toward the dog, who sleeps on our bed, and tries to grab his tail. It used to bother him, but now he just licks her face! How cute:)

Below are a bunch of pictures! Most recently, we celebrated fall by carving pumpkins and going out trick or treating on Halloween night. Lily was a lady bug! It was so much fun. This will be a big couple of months for us - celebrating Lily's 1st Thanksgiving (we'll be in Senora with Drew's dad) and then her 1st Christmas where my parents will be visiting here from Arizona!

I promise to not wait as long to post more entries. Be looking for another entry as we are going to Hawaii for our 1st big family vacation December 2-12th...Aloha! 

Drew climbing the Grand Teton

Sunrise on Orazaba

Drew's summit of Pico de Orazaba - over 18,000 ft of climbing!

Family picture from Idaho trip to see Drew's mom in September

Our little beach baby!

All smiles:)

She loves to stand!

Lily Joyann - 7 months

So proud of herself that she can now pull herself up...

Enjoying the pumpkin patch with her cousin, Asher

Our sweet pumpkin:)

Mommy and Baby

Back to the patch, with Daddy this time!

I couldn't resist buying her this flower costume, since her name is Lily after all:)

And baby makes 3

Happy Halloween from this cute little bugger!

Sherlock Holmes and Good Ole Jack!

Our family:)

Happy Fall!