Thanksgiving 2010

This year we didn't have Thanksgiving with my family, but we were able to celebrate with Chad's family.  Here are some pictures from this Thanksgiving:

Vultures

For some reason our neighborhood is a hang out for a lot of vultures.  But, recently I was walking and saw the most I've seen in a long time, so when I finished my first loop I went back home to get my camera.  While I was taking some pictures I noticed that a house across the street from our neighborhood had quite a few vultures on the house and in the yard.  Before I could get a picture of them on that house a police car pulled up and turned on the siren scaring them all away.  Then the police officer got out and I heard him tell the home owner that "...they're all gone from your yard now.", so I guess the person that lives in that house called the police about the vultures!  I know people think they are creepy, but they like to hang out in big flocks and it's not like they will attack someone.  I just thought it was crazy that that person called the police about vultures in their yard!  Here are some of the pictures I got that day:

This is the power line tower closest to the front of our neighborhood.

A close up of a few vultures.

This is when they were flying away across the street.

The power line tower in the back of our neighborhood.

Fall cat pictures

The cats love to snuggle when it gets colder.

Roxy sitting with Chad on the couch!

Fall pictures

The weather this fall has been pretty nice - it's cooled off, but we've still had some nice warm days too.  Here are a few pictures of this fall:

Our house with our tree if full fall color.

A bird nest in a tree in our neighborhood.

A beautiful tree in our neighborhood.

A bird in the tree in our front yard.

Birds at our feeder.

My Mom's NC Visit

My Mom always come to NC for my Grandmother's birthday in October.  I usually try to take a week off work and go to Wilmington so I can spend time with both my Mom and Grandmother.  Here are some pictures from her most recent visit:

Sleeping cat pictures

My cats LOVE when my Mom comes to visit because they get to sleep on the guest bed.  The second room upstairs gets the most sunlight, so they love to curl up on that bed and sleep in the sun.  Here are a few pictures from my Mom's last visit and you can tell the cats are really enjoying using her bed!

A close up of Sandy.

A close up of Roxy.

Halloween 2010

Every year Chad and I go to a local farm, Hodges Dairy Farm, to pick out our pumpkin.  They have hayrides for kids, a maze, animals to see, and plenty of pumpkins to choose from.  Here are some pictures from our visit to the pumpkin patch:

We decided to carve our pumpkin into a bat, so the actual pumpkin was the face and then we made bat wings and ears to attach to the pumpkin.  It worked out really well because I drew the face and wings for the pumpkin bat and Chad worked out how to attach them to the pumpkin so they would stay up.  We also roasted the pumpkin seeds for the first time this year and they were pretty tasty.  Here are some pictures of the carving and our finished pumpkin: