Cassidy was not quite awake........but she was awake enough to decorate this sugar cookie with chocolate, of course!

Nonnie shows Cassidy how to carve a pumpkin. Cassidy also got to decorate a cookie and drink apple cider.......and it was FREE! This town loves children......it's really cool!

Our little serious Lady-bugger! She decided she likes costumes because we told her she can go to parties and get candy if she wears it........now she'll be wearing it daily because as she says,"Mommy, I love chocolate!"

We took Cassidy to the Pumpkin Patch today.

"Weeeeee're OFF to see the wizard..........." those wacky Bankerts ham it up at the pumpkin patch and corn maze farm! (You GOTTA double click this pic because it is really funny and cute large!)

Cassidy scores an adorable Big Girl Bed........(and loves to pull all of her possessions into bed with her.......hahaha!) She broke a record this morning sleeping in until 9:30!!!!! Unreal!!!! She is pretty content snuggled up in this little bed!

A beautiful sunny/misty day at the Port Angeles marina for the Dungeness Crab Fest.

Don introduces Cassidy to a crab at our second Dungeness Crab Festival in Port Angeles. We had a great time again this year!

Cassidy loves her sunflowers! We had a HUGE wind storm that blew all of our sunflowers down so we've been bringing them inside so that we can enjoy them. They are awesome and they last forever!

Cassidy enjoying one of the treasures she found in the hay game......

Our second farm day..........Cassidy is looking for treasures in the hay at the local dairy farm...........(got milk????) She really loves this day.......lots of activities, children everywhere, great food and music and tons of farm animals to pet. It is a wonderful learning experience for the kids and the adults too!!!!

Handsome Daddy-B working his butt off........He's working two jobs now and learning more tricks for eventually building our home.

Cassidy shakes her booty in the sun room!

The front of Bates and Lois' house. This side faces south west and into their gorgeous woods. The right hand side is a beautiful sun room that Lois will undoubtedly fill with all her favorite growing things! It's very exciting to see this house go up! It's just loaded with cool ideas! (the benefits of years of experience living in different houses AND a very talented designer!)

Our good friend, Bill, who designed and is building Lois and Bates' gorgeous and unique new home! It's really going to be an amazing house.......Bill is VERY artistic with many cool and unique ideas.

We're getting busy canning yummy stuff to eat and give as gifts.......

A small part of our HUGE plum crop.......we had to get really creative to use up all these plums! There were so many they broke the poor tree....(a lesson in fruit tree pruning for us!)