Fall Love

This weekend we

tried to take advantage of the beautiful Fall weather and have a Simmons Family picture taken.  I'm not sure that it would be something I would orchestrate every year, as getting everyone together, dressed, happy etc. did prove to be a smidgen challenging!  Although the photographer wasn't as creative as I had hoped, it was somewhat miraculous to get pictures of all of us done in a half hour!  We will see how her efforts panned out in a few days.  I was just so thrilled to get all of us in one big picture!  (The picture you see is one I took with my cellphone, which was just about out of power).
As for the rest of the week, congratulations to Meredith and Carrie on their new jobs with Kaiser, beginning in a couple of weeks.

Saturday seemed like a blur.....we moved Gramma's hair appointment to 8:00, so the day began with that, then on to Sophie's soccer game (taking Gramma along) which was made so enjoyable by the warmth of the autumn sunshine.

 

 (Not to mention, eating a pixie stick that Grandpa got at the concession stand!)

Then we picked up Carrie and the kids, dropped Brad off to help Curt and Spencer at a job in Ft. Collins, drove back to Windsor to grab some lunch and drop Gabi off at her Saturday "Jungle Book" dance practice, then back to Ft. Collins for the Grand Opening of Costco. Apparently, all of Northern Colorado thought of the same thing!  Anyway, we met Amie and the kids there and loaded up on some bargain stuff.  Then, it was back to Windsor to get Gabi from dance, then back to Ft. Collins to get shirts for the kids for the Sunday pictures.  While we waited for Carrie, the kids had my camera and took a couple (?) of shots of one another...Photographers in the making....

 

On Sunday, Amie ran a race in Denver, and the kids came to our house.  Sophie (chef in training) wanted to help by preparing the spaghetti sauce, so she chopped all of the veggies, then got some seasoning advice from Grandpa.

 

Later, as we met at Carrie and Spencer's for dinner, the three older kids had a chance to do the same.

preparing brussel sprouts

The really big news of the week was that Brad got hearing aids and is loving the difference (well, most of it anyway!) in his world.