Trick or Treating was fun tonight. Reid's fake horns didn't last long but the "real" ones are always there! He had the candy thing figured out real fast....Amelia was the cutest scare crow I've ever seen!!! There is lots of candy for me.......

Some great fun Fall shots...green grass, leaves and cows. Things Alaskans will never take for granted!!!

Reid gets his annual haircut from aunt Nikii.

We had fun carving pumpkins in Idaho. The pumpkins were grown at aunt Nikki's and in a friends garden.

Just noticed we didn't have a picture of the plane after it had the complete paint job.....She's a beauty!!!!!

My friend Lora and I had been aching to do an overnight hike all summer and when the time finally came that our busy husbands could take the kids off our hands....we got snow!!! But we went anyway. This is up "Carlo Creek" drainage looking back towards Cantwell. We had a nice sunny day of hiking after a cold, windy, snowy night in the tent!!!! Call us desparate but we had fun!!!

Amelia and Lance went on their yearly rabbit hunt....they got these two snowshoe hares and we cooked them for dinner the next night. (sweet and sour rabbit.....tasty!)

Snow came early this year....the end of September!!! This snow goddess was made right after a really wet snow/rain....usually our snow is too dry for a snowman. The kids had fun and I think Lance did too!

We have been fortunate to have the weather and be able to get out and hike a lot this Fall. This was actually on my 35th !!! Birthday up the Jack River (that flows behind our house). There is a great canyon and the mountains were stunning with "termination dust" or snow on them. When I ask myself why we live in such a cold place with a short season of good weather, all I have to do is look back on times like this.

On another hike recently we came across this little patch of ice crystals in the otherwise brown tundra. This shows a crowberry in the middle of the patch of crystals. We believe there was a little vole living under the ground there and it was his warm breath meeting the cold air that made the crystals........

A few weeks ago Joanna and I took Rachel, Amelia and Reid up Reindeer Mtn. It was a long hike for Amelia but she did great!! Reid got a little snooze on the way up.....lucky guy!

My friend Lora and I took the kids to explore a new trail up Carlo Creek at the end of the Fall. (Yes, I know it's still Fall in the rest of the states!!!) but we're different up here. (in a lot of ways....) These are Lora's kids, Sage and Allie. This hike led Lora and I to dream of an overnight camping trip without the kids.....which we just did this past weekend, in 4 inches of snow!!! Photos to come of that awesome adventure soon......