Pop’s Page

It’s hard to believe Tori is already nine. What a smile on that gal!

Here’s the Nateman.

And the happy couple…

You don’t usually think of Texas as the place to go for autumn leaves. But here on the banks of the Woods of Spring Creek, we have a number of native Texas ash trees that turn a brilliant yellow just about now. And then they dump them all almost simultaneously….just about now.

Friday we invited Lydia over with brother Luke, sister Susanna, and mom and dad, to celebrate her 5th birthday (Nov. 10). We decided to have a leaf blast before dinner.

Here are all three grandkids in the big leaf pile we managed to assemble:

Here’s the birthday girl who particularly enjoyed raking the leaves back up after all of us jumped in them:

Susie liked the leaves, too:

Luke decided to take his nap in the middle of the pile:

…but then he decided he wanted to play some more:

The evening ended with an indoor stair leaping contest. Here’s the birthday girl showing her stuff: