Costume Party

September brought us to our first costume party. It was at Whites Park in Concord. Great little playground and pond. The girls had a blast!!

This is the twins at their finest. Aubrey being the comedian, and Ray wanting nothing to do with it. Makes me laugh when I see this. Imagine living with it...OK, picture 10 years from now. Cracks me up!

The dynamic trio.

Rattlesnake Mountain

September was a hiking adventure with a great friend on Rattlesnake Mountain in Holderness, NH.

It was cold! It was beautiful. Great hike, all stairs and steps to start, there is no gradual warm up it's just 'go'.

Where Does The Time Go....

Let's catch up, shall we? It's been a whirl wind summer/fall with highs and lows.

The explorer came close to literally exploding. I was driving home on the two mile dirt road to get to my house. On this fine day I chose to take the short cut. A 'not town maintained' road. That states: 'pass at your own risk'. Well the truck made it halfway up the hill and just shut down...I got out looked around, I was maybe a couple pg hundred yards from my own drive way. Dang!! I popped the hood, and paced back and fourth for a bit. Willing the stupid thing to start again. I gave it little gas and talked nice. It started. I made it up the driveway...it didn't start again. So our discussions of a more fuel efficient car came to fruition.

Not only was the explored not fuel efficient, it was fuel dangerous. Once it was towed to the garage and the tech looked at it. He found the fuel pump had shorted and almost caught fire!. How scary is that. I'd been driving the girls around in it for years and we are very lucky. On this day they were not with me.

We researched and test drove. And to get the most bang for our commuter buck. We went with....

A Honda Civic. It's been about two months and we've saved about $400 in gas money alone. The deal is..We ALL have to be getting along before we get in. It's tight. It's great, there is no eating, or drinking or putting your feet on the seats and Todd is allowed to drive 'sometimes'. :)