Pumpkin Time

This past weekend Chris and I were able to fit in some fun fall things! Saturday, after we got up, we packed a bag and headed to Greenfield where we went to Tuttle's Orchard. There we picked pumpkins, had lunch, observed a bee hive, saw their apple orchard and bought some yummy apple cider and a caramel apple. We had fun seeing all the fall displays and doing the fall thing. After the orchard we headed downtown Indianapolis to drive around and spend some time down there. It was fun! I hadn't been downtown since we got back from Kenya, so it was fun to see the new hotel that has been built and all the improvements being made to the city in order to get it ready to host the Superbowl in 2012. Its crazy how much goes into that! We then headed down to the South side of Indy to Greenwood to see Chris' dad, Jeff, and step-mom, Debbie. It was fun to see them since it had been a while since we had last seen them. Debbie had just gotten out of the hospital earlier that morning. She had been in since Thursday with heart rhythm problems. She is doing well though, just glad to be back to normal and back at home! After Greenwood we headed to New Pal to Chris' mom and step-dad's house where we would spend the night. Sunday we got up and went to church then headed home and relaxed a bit before carving our Tuttle's pumpkins later that night! It was a great weekend.

But now the week has started, and it has gotten off to a rather rough start! Yesterday was a beautiful day, 78 degrees and mostly sunny. Today however was a completely different story! Its still around 70 degrees which is nice! I don't mind the cold holding off. However, we had a massive storm blow through that gave us tornado warnings, severe thunderstorms and some very high winds! Just about the time I was headed to my class, it got very dark outside and the sirens started going off and the rain started to pour down! A lot of the buildings here on campus went into lock down and moved everyone to the basement or ground floor of the building. Things got pretty chaotic for sure! But glad that is over with!

Here are some pictures from the weekend! Enjoy!

Part of a fall display at Tuttle's

Chris with the pumpkins we picked

The Indianapolis skyline with the new hotel, J.W. Marriott on the right

Me carving my pumpkin

Our carved pumpkins all lit up

Thanks for reading!

Lizz

Fall

Well goodness! I am so bad at keeping this updated now that we are back in the States! Either that or life just isn't that interesting anymore so we don't have as much to write about :)

School is keeping both of us plenty busy! Chris has has several interviews with CPA firms in Indianapolis the last couple weeks. Preparation for his graduation in May. He is hoping to hear back from some with job offers, but until then we are waiting and praying. I am keeping busy with all the reading and projects associated with all my classes. Even though I have a pretty light semester class wise, it seems like it is never ending homework wise.

October has arrived...it's hard to believe! Seems like just yesterday we were ringing in the new year and looking forward to all it brought. And now here we are almost at the end of the year! Yikes! But with October comes Fall. Fall and I have a bittersweet relationship. I love early fall, watching all the trees change colour. But...with fall comes cool temperatures and the promise of winter, which I strongly dislike! Thankfully this year has been different so far though! It was so dry this summer that the trees are not nearly as colourful as in the past. The leaves are just kind of dying and falling off. There are a few trees turning pretty, but its not the beautiful painting that it usually resembles. However, I am in love with the fact that the temperatures have not dropped yet! We have had a few cold days, but yesterday was almost 90 and this whole week is going to be 80 or above...I am OK with that!

I got out today and got some pictures of the few leaves turning in our neighborhood! Enjoy!

A pine tree branch, its leaves are not turning. I was just playing with depth of field here.

Changing trees by our road

Pretty yellow leaves

Pretty red leaves

Thanks for reading!

Lizz