And here we are...

What a WEEKEND! Can't believe it is only Saturday evening! We have been on the fly since Friday morning~ it has been an amazing and fun weekend so far (still have more of the weekend left to have fun!)

Friday morning it was Pathways last big outdoor hurrah~ a goodbye summer hello fall party at Riverside Park. We went on a nature hike, made great little collages with the leaves and stuff we gathered on our walk, ate pizza, and just had a lot of fun~ nothing like having a bunch of little guys all together having fun at the park! My grandson was there along with my Joshua so it was a lot of family fun along with fun of the others there too.

Friday afternoon, I had to wander up to the courthouse to take care of some matters~ the kiddos and I walked up there~ what a wonderful walk we had! The weather was PERFECT, the colors of fall were amazing, we sang and danced our way uptown...

Took care of the business part of our adventure, then we took a photo op at the old county jail~ way cute pics of my babies there... then we went to the Susanville Cemetary~ this was totally an amazing little adventure. I know we are a bit odd to take an adventure through a cemetary~ but it is something my little bear and I have done a couple of times now. We walk around and look at the headstones, check out the artwork on some of them, see the dates on them and freshen up a few graves here and there that need it.

While we are at the Susanville Cemetary we saw headstones with dates from the 1860's... 150 year old headstones... totally amazing. There are also some old wooden headstones there... I stood there in that cemetary, my heart full of joy, at the love families showed their family members and sad too... because there were these monster sized pieces of granite and marble etched with loved ones names, small fortunes spent on these memorials, and there in one corner were 4 little wooden headstones, lovingly handmade by someone who wanted to mark the people they loved grave sites.

Well after our sojourn through the cemetary we grabbed the Bizz Johnson Trail at Miller Road... I am telling you, the walk down the trail was so delightful! The fall colors were everywhere, there was the waterfall, the river, the bridge... we walked from the Miller Road TrailHead back to the Richmond Road TrailHead. From Richmond Road we walked towards home~ decided that instead of home we would go to the park again!

And off we went to the park~ Elizabeth played hard. Allen had fun too playing on the slide and then crawling around in the grass. All of a sudden, after we had been playing for a while, we noticed it was cooling off... Fall... the sun starts to settle down and the temperature starts to plummet. The park was a lot of fun and then we headed home as the sun was setting.

So we woke up Saturday~ sat here talking about what we should do today~ we decided a trip to the library and a picnic at the park...

I packed some peanut butter and jelly sammiches, some gogurts, crackers, and other snack stuff and some water and we were on our way.

The library was great fun~ it has been a long time since we went and spent time there. The kids played in the children's corner, we read a couple of stories, found a couple of books to check out and then we were on our way...

Memorial Park was a busy place today! One would think it was the middle of summer instead of the middle of October. We found ourselves a bit of grass where we spread our blanket and settled down to eat our little picnic. Then Elizabeth got and played while Allen had a bit of a nap. Once he woke up he went and played too.

We played and played and played and finally settled down on our blanket again~ we sat there talking and decided that we should wander over to the museum and see if they were open...

It was OPEN! How fun and exciting! We wandered around and looked at the cool stuff they had, talked about some of the neat things that they had in there, and visited with the guy who was there. Elizabeth found out the man running the museum today went to school with her Dad. She thought that was very cool. He showed her pictures of the old High School and the picture of when it was brought down to make room for the new high school (if 40+ years is new?)

We had tons of fun at the museum and then decided to go back to the park...

The kids and I walked back to the park~ we played along the river, rolled in leaves, and swung and slid on the slide and really just had a ton fun! We played until we were to tired to play anymore and then home we traveled...

Elizabeth and I made biscuits and some stew and settled down to eat our dinner and both fell asleep... it was a nice long good day.