there just is no denying...

The St. George Marathon

has come and gone...

We had the coolest bus driver!

Feeling so optimistic at 4 AM....stupid, stupid girls....

you'd think we didn't know what we were getting into....

We did the whole Halloween thing....



We celebrated a birthday...

We woke up this morning to find

freshly fallen snow,

begging for a playmate...

Even the Christmas lights are ready to be hung....

I wish it wasn't true.

Summer has packed up her beautiful warm sunshine, her boat rides and swimming pools, lemonade stands and front porch picnics and left us much too quickly. I would have liked to tire of her stay...to wonder if cooler days would ever come. I would have liked to feel exhausted from the heat, and to be grateful to see the leaves finally changing their colors.... But summer was just too short this year. I have tried to pretend. I have tried to will it to not be so. But there just is no denying...and it doesn't really matter what the calendar says....
Winter is here.