The Mountains

We went up to Pinetop with Heidi to pick up her kids from Grandma and Grandpa's a few weeks ago. It was a quick trip, but one of the best we've had in a long time. It has been almost six years since I have gone up into the mountains in the fall. It is truly one of my favorite places to be. We would go up every year on my birthday and that has been one of the things I have missed most about moving to the valley, my mountains, especially in the fall.

It was the best day. Cloudy, but not cold. Sweater weather!

We attempted to take some good photos, but we were very unsuccessful.

It was so crisp and perfect.

Someone had tied up a stick to a tree and what else do you do? But swing on it of course!

I was afraid it would snap, it didn't.

We stayed in the mountains all day and at one point every one fell asleep in the car, but Daisy... :)

And a rainbow.

We finished off the day by helping my Dad get a cord of wood. I have actually never done that. I was always the stacker of the wood. I remember coming home from school in the fall and there would be a giant pile of wood in the front yard just waiting for us to spend all of Saturday morning taking it to the back yard for winter.

Oh, how I am still a mountain girl at heart.

These kids played hard and slept hard... in my bed.

We "stole" some leaves. They were just so beautiful and vibrant we had to take some home. I love the mountains and the people who love them too.