Halloween

 

 

 

 

The weenie girls loved

the pumpkin guts.

 

 

 

It's hard work

carving pumpkins!

 

 

This year we had an Iron Man

and a Grim Reaper.

Why Rylee picked the Grim Reaper

I have no idea.  He ALWAYS

goes for the dark side.

 

Red River

 For our "Just the Two of Us"

trip this year, we hit the road 

and headed to Red River!

We LOVE the mountains

and try to go often.

This was the first time that

we took our own camper.

We were a little nervous about

the drive, but everything went

great!  The drive was so

beautiful!  The trees were

so amazing!  Lots of bright

fall colors.

We loved our campsite!

It sat right by the river.  

We would open up the end 

window in our kitchen and 

listen to it running. 

We even had a family of 

ducks that we fed every morning.

We were going to Red River

just to go, but we also figured out

that they were doing an 

Oktober Fest.  We had never been

to one, so we were really excited!

The food was AMAZING!

KC could not wait to try these 

bratwurst with homemade sauerkraut.

They were so good!  {and HUGE}

We split this one.  :)  We were not

fans of the German Potato Salad though.

Some of the beer they had for you 

to try out was kinda interesting.

They had one wine tent.

That's where we spent most

of our time.  ;)

That night they did a pub crawl.

It was a mustache theme.

You started at one restaurant and

made your way to about 8

different ones.

  Each one was 
featuring different beer.  
Yeah, we only lasted 3 stops.

The next morning KC just

had to have a bratwurst dot

for breakfast.  :)

Then we headed out to do some

riding!  The trails were so beautiful!!!

The weather was perfect!

It was an amazing day to ride!

 We found lots of caves and old

mines.  They were CREEPY!

So deep that you couldn't even see

to the end.  And PITCH BLACK!

KC tried to talk me into

going in there and exploring ---

I don't think so!

The trail we took was a pretty long trail.

It took us an hour and a half

to get up and then an hour and

a half to ride back down.

We had a nice little pic-nic

lunch.  The view was so gorgeous!

 My hubby makes the best

pasta with shrimp!

And we enjoyed it by the river and

the fire.  So Peaceful!

We also did some fishing. 

While we were sitting there

we were visited by this little chipmunk.

He stayed with us the whole time.

KC kept feeding him almonds.

He was very cute.

KC went off somewhere to try to fish

a different spot because we weren't

catching anything.  He came back 

with this on his line.  He swears

that he caught it, but it looked

dead to me.  When he threw it

back it didn't even swim away.  LOL

We had a great week in the 

wonderful mountains!

--but we were excited to see

our boys when we got back home.