Sunday, September 18, 2011

Autumn

We are really enjoying the onset of fall in Columbus. Here are a few pictures/videos to give a taste.

These pictures were taken at a little park close to the Scioto river, about 10 minutes from home. We live between two fairly decent sized rivers. The Scioto is larger and more scenic. If you look closely in the first, we caught a little friend (only in the camera, none of us were really in the mood to catch the slimy guy with our hands).








We've been having a lot of fun going to the "softball game," aka, the park next to the library which also has softball fields.










There are a few farms in the area that allow the public to come in late summer and early fall to pick fruit from their orchards. We went this weekend and picked a lot of apples and picked up some other produce at the same time. The best part was they encourage taste testing while you pick.








We also tried to grow some tomatoes and peppers in the little patio behind our townhome. Graham and Emma love to play out there, and we love that they can't open the back gate.




And of course, you can't talk about Columbus in the fall without also addressing football at OSU. I won free tickets to a game so Graham and I went to get a firsthand experience. Here are 105,000 people converging upon the OSU house of worship. The football was okay, but we went mostly to watch the marching band. Just kidding, but really they were pretty impressive (the band, not the football, they deserved to lose but won anyway; I might get expelled or tarred and feathered for saying that). Graham's favorite part was the stadium hot dogs (he had two).





5 comments:

Sarah said...

Anabelle loves seeing pictures of her cousins, and immediately asked "Are they coming over tonight?" So sad, to have to tell her no. Looks like some fun stuff you guys are doing. Ani says hi to her cousins. That sure is a lot of people at the football game. Awesome that you won tickets, too.

Mike and Larissa said...

Your kids are so cute! good luck with everything!

Abby said...

Graham's smile looks just like Alex's silly smile in the picture of him going to the football game!

This was fun to read, I'll have to show my kids tomorrow!

Hansen Family said...

I love all the pictures and especially the videos of Graham playing softball. He is pretty good! That looks like fun to watch a football game.

colleen said...

Graham is doing great with the bat. You just need to teach him which way to run, Alex:) I loved the pictures and videos.