Family this Fall

I have not shared any of my photos of family who have visited this fall. We had such a good time when Travis, Natalie and Alice were here on Halloween night.

I guess Glen took the pictures, because he isn't in any of them! We had dinner at the airport with them before they hopped on their flight back home. Natalie's grandpa had passed away, and we reaped the benefit of their travels back to Kansas to attend the services.

Alice is growing so fast and I have only seen her three times in her whole life. She really likes her momma and daddy, but she warmed up to us after an hour or so. She was just taking her first confidant baby steps after an unfortunate accident on a wood floor that held-up her progress a little.

Devin was home for Thanksgiving, and although we missed Dylan, Brandon and Amy, we were happy as clams to have him here for a whole week. His blog about our trip to Weston is much better than mine, so read it instead! http://raughtic.blogspot.com/ Adrienne took all the photos of our happy Thanksgiving event, so you will have to beg her to blog and share the pics. As always, it is never easy to say "goodbye" to one of our L. A. sons, and because we had such a wonderful time, it is difficult to hold back the tears when they head thru security and wave one last time from the other side of the gate window.

Last weekend, I threw myself a birthday party even though my birthday isn't until Dec. 12. I invited three good friends and their daughters, making 8 of us in all. But that is another blog...just as soon as my daughter sends the pictures to me so I can include them for you all to see.