Life with our little family of 3...

Every year for Halloween, we have gone to a local church for their Halloween/Fall Festival. It's always been a lot of fun! Unfortunately this year they didn't have it. So we were at a loss of what to do. We had some friends invite us to their house for dinner and trick or treating. This was Emma's first year trick-or-treating. For a week she practiced saying "Trick-or-Treat". Glinda the Good Witch Counting all the loot! She had over 100 pieces of candy!

The flu hit our house this year. We think that most likely it was the H1N1 due to some of the symptoms and severity of it. It was not fun that is for sure. It hit Robert & Emma pretty bad. Fortunately I didn't get much of it, just one day of feeling icky. Thanks to a friend, I fought back and won. Otherwise who was going to play nursemaid?? Poor little Emma, she was so tired. We had a hard time getting her fever down since she absolutely refuses any sort of medication! So we rode it out with lots of naps and liquids. Even Mac was tired! Poor guy was confused why we were all home for over a week just sitting around! So he joined Emma in a nap...

This is Emma's little buddy Hulk. They love to snuggle together when he comes over! Apparently I was disturbing them while taking their picture! How rude!

We were driving back from Oregon when we came up behind this... Is this a house? Yep and it's a shoe! It's the woman who lived in the shoe! How cool is this??

Robert found this GREAT musuem about the Applegate Trail. It is part of the Oregon trail that came out west. It was such a great museum with such rich history! Unfortunately they wouldn't allow cameras inside the museum so we only got shots outside. All of the items in the museum are originals so we were assuming they didn't want them to get damaged with flashes from cameras and such. The covered bridge. Emma and I are reading 'Little House on the Prairie'. What a great visual for what it would be like to travel in a covered wagon! She wasn't too happy that Robert was shaking the carriage, she thought she was going to fall. Though I like this picture because they have the same look as those from the film in the museum. I would too if I went through what those people had to endure!

Here is our last night around the fire. The last time to do smores too! We sat around, ate smores and told Emma stories from when we were kids. She especially loved the stories about Daddy and how he got in trouble when he was a kid! Emma and her dog... good thing we brought the double chair! Emma's fire that she helped Daddy make! Too hot!

We visited Fort Klamath on the way back from Crater Lake. Back in the day it was THE fort. It was over 1000 acres and was home to the 1st Calvary of the US Army. It was a really cool place to visit! Emma with a soldier's saddle and gear. Captain Jack is actually buried here with the three other Modoc Indians that were executed.