alison's trees & leaves

My dear friend Alison has quite a talent for dabbling in tree and leaf photography. I stand by my firm belief that she has a successful career on her hands. I was lucky enough to obtain some her most recent work. These are from her fall collection.

pumpkin funtivities

Another spectacular weekend at The Cottage filled with laughs and laughs and laughs while playing Catch Phrase and some very festive pumpkin carving.

Alison, Paul and I; no pumpkin can escape the carnage!

This is mine and Alison's Goofy pumpkin.

Curt and Paul's Jolly Roger.

What a couple a great lookin' melons!

The fabulous four and our pumpkins.

Curt and Paul on the front stoop of The Cottage.

super sleuth weekend

Last weekend, Curtis & I were invited to a "Super Sleuth Weekend" at Paul and Alison's. It was so fantastic! For any of you wishing to host a similar event, here are some key activities that should be addressed:

A very delicious fall dinner. (ours consisted of white bean chicken chili in pumpkin bread bowls. yummy.)

What better to put your sleuthing skills to the test than a riveting game of Clue. Afterwards, we watched Clue the movie. What a classic.

Saturday's activity was a sleuthing scavenger hunt around Logan. It was ladies vs. guys and we each had a list of autumn-esque items we had to capture with the camera. Each team received additional points if we were able to get strangers posing in our picture. The guys gave a valiant effort, however Alison and I were able to eek out a win with our picture of a 24-member biker gang that was taking a rest in the Hastings parking lot. Our victory earned us some pretty amazing Toy Story stickers and tattoos. The crown jewel on the weekend was a saturday afternoon showing of The Great Mouse Detective. Needless to say, we had a lot of laughs. Thanks to Paulison for an amazing weekend!

the vultures of halloween

Behind our house we have an old craggly tree that is pretty creepy looking. Every fall the tree fills with vultures and it certainly ups the creep factor. Curt took a bunch of pictures of the tree with it's visitors and used his mad photoshop skills to make it look even more eerie. The perfect Halloween picture.