Visit from Fun Aunt Cathy!

Here's the thing. Fall here is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. GORGEOUS. And it's chock full of festivals and pumpkin patches and leaves changing and I just don't want to miss a minute of it so I have been struggling to find time to post. Alas, here I am - both kids are asleep and I have 30 minutes before we have to go to Arlington for a cookie decorating party.

See? Chock full!

Anyhoo, we had a great visit with Aunt Cathy (Brian's cousin) a couple of weeks ago. James has always adored her...

and now Molly does too.....

A little background: We have become UF Gator fans by default. Brian's brother went there and his sister is there now - graduating December 2009. We all have shirts (even Molly) and we wear them on game days and watch the games on TV. Cathy's visit happened to fall on a game day so she arrived at our house to find a Gator shirt on her bed.

It was a good game...

There were touchdowns....

and fumbles....

and in the end, the Gators won.

Cathy teaches 4th grade and her class is studying rocks and minerals so we took her to find some real examples to take back to her class (not literally, of course).

The Washington Monument:

The World War II Memorial

It was about 30 degrees outside and James (who, I may have mentioned, apparently has no feeling) thought he might like to feel the fountain:

See? Cold.

and the Lincoln Memorial

There was a band from Denmark playing on the steps for what seemed like hours. They had a photographer with them and she kept taking pictures of James while he danced to the music.

Always a good visit Cath! Come back anytime!