Road Tripin-The Gordons Visit Maryland

We have been back from our Family Road Trip to Maryland for about 2 weeks now but I am just now getting caught up. It was such a wonderful, but quick trip. A big thank you to my sister and brother-in-law Hope and Ron for being such a great hosts and letting us take over their house for the long weekend. Bill and I always love our visits to Maryland but it is even better having Spencer with us! Spencer got to visit with so many special people. Baba, Aunt Hope and Uncle Ron, Aunt Caren, Uncle Max, Cousins Natalie and Ethan, Alyson, Joel, Jason, and Alex and lots of friends too.



Another first for the Gordons! This was our first family road trip and to my surprise it was not bad at all! Spencer was a trooper and I think took advantage of the long car ride to catch up on his sleep :-) We felt bad that he was in his car seat for such long stretches, but it was the most cost effective way to travel this year.



On our trip up, we got a late start so we ended up staying in Durham overnight. We hit the road early the next morning to finish the trip and were in Baltimore before we new it. Coming home was the opposite. We decided to get an early start and travel straight through. Again, not as bad as we thought and we made lots of stops so Spencer could eat and play. We even caught some pics of fun street signs on our travels. My photography skills were not so good going 70+mph but if you look close you may be able to catch some of them :-)

Originally we had panned to travel this particular weekend so that we could all run the Army Ten Miler Race that we do EVERY year but plans changed this year and as most of us were on injured reserved :-) With the race off the schedule, we had more time to visit with family and friends and take advantage of short time in Maryland. Can't wait to plan our next visit!

Trick-OR-Treat

I cannot believe how fast this month flew by. I feel like it was yesterday that I was just posting about all the fun things we had planned to kick off Fall and now, Halloween has come and gone! Craziness.

We celebrated Spencer's first Halloween close to home. Early in the day we enjoyed a family walk, and then a visit to Trey and Katy's for some pre-trick or treat fun. We topped off the night by taking Spencer to 2 houses in our neighborhood so he could "trick or treat". Boy did he know just what to do. He reached into the candy bowl so fast we could barely get a picture :-) His first candy, a Butterfinger! Mommy and Daddy enjoyed it very much :-) I could not help myself but to think ahead to next year and how much fun it will be with Spencer on the move!

We made it back home just in time to catch the whopping 5 groups of kids that came to our house to trick or treat. Hey it's better then the 2 we had last year :-)

I cannot believe Halloween is over but I am happy there is still plenty of Fall Fun to be had.

Happy Halloween From The Gordons!

We have been SUPER busy the past few weeks and cannot wait to post updates on everything we have been up to but for now we just wanted to wish everyone a VERY SAFE & HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Trick or Treat!

Pumpkin Patch Palooza!

I mentioned before how much I love Fall. Well, it's not Fall without the pumpkin patch!

Spencer and I visited a local church with our playgroup last week to check out their selection of pumpkins and to snap a few pictures of the babies with the pumpkins. Not your "traditional" trip to the pumpkin patch but we still got some fun pictures.

Couldn't seem to get a great group shot! It was Nap time ya know!

Just two days later we took our Annual trip to BURTS FARM with the Summerfield's. I think this was our 3rd year going all together and this year we had Spencer to join in the fun! It was a beautiful fall day and we got to Burts very early beating most of the crowds which was wonderful. After the hay ride, shopping in the market, and snapping a million pictures we had a picnic lunch and enjoyed the day! Somehow Burts Farm NEVER gets old! I just love it :-)

It's amazing what a difference a year makes

When Did I Take That Picture?

Over the past few months I have been snapping pictures randomly on my cell phone but I always forget to upload them to Facebook or the blog. It was not unil I pulled video off my phone earlier this week that I saw how many cell phone pics I really had!

Here are a few from the past few months

Mr. Smiles

A HUGE THANK YOU!

Bill and I just wanted to send out another HUGE Thank You to EVERYONE (all 98) of you that voted for Spencer the Scarecrow. He won the Halloween Photo Contest! He would not have won without all of your votes so we are very thankful and we will be so excited to share the pics of his photo shoot with Kristin once we actually schedule it.

We know Facebook contests and games can be super annoying at times but we had fun with this friendly competition and are very glad you all decided to participate for us. We hope to return the favor for all of you someday.

For those of you who did not know Kristin with Bloom Photography before this competition, she is an amazing photographer. You will be happy you "liked" her. Through the years we have maintained various relationships with different photographers in the area and we love them all. We are very excited to work with Kristin again soon.

Here are some more pics I took of Spencer in his costume. I could only submit the one for the contest but I was able to capture some other great shots too.

Thanks Everyone!

The Winning Photo!