Fall is here!

Fall is here!! YAY!! Fall is my very favorite season. It is such a relief to be able to go outside without sweating your buns off and knowing that every day gets you a little bit closer to Winter.

Summer was a busy time for us here in the Clouse household, the start of school, football season, and work and our personal lives kept us extremely busy.
We are all looking forward to a season of rest.

Today was the last football game of Timothy's first football season. We lost miserably but it was fun as usual to go and watch them play and to get to yell at kids always delights me hahahaha.

Here are a couple of pictures of Tim and his 4 new best buddies. They have spent a HUGE amount of time together with football practices, games, and parties after the games...I have a feeling they will remain lifelong friends! From left to right, Colby, RJ, Trenton, and Timothy.












Yesterday afterschool the boys got to carve their Halloween pumpkins. I let them draw their own designs, Timothy hasn't yet grasped the whole pumpkin carving thing as you can tell from his strange design, but it actually came out pretty good.







Luke took a more traditional approach to his carving..it is funny, if you give a boy a knife he immediately wants to use it as a weapon hehehe.




Here is the finished products..pretty good pumpkins I think.


Here are a few pictures of Luke, He is in JR ROTC and looks soooo handsome in his fatigues...I am hoping the war will be over by the time he graduates so I can let him join the Marines...He wants Marines, I think he should be a Navy Seal...I will win that battle..stay tuned! lol
PS It is not that I don't want him to go to war...actually never mind..I don't want him to go to war, but I guess if he has to go to war I would rather it be a war protecting America, not a war for oil....

The cabin-Fall Break Oct. '08

Well we just returned from our favorite little vacation spot the Clouse family cabin. While there we redid the screened in porch as seen to the left. The bears did a wonderful little number of ripping the screen down a few years ago so this trip we rescreened the entire porch.



Here are my 3 handsome chaperones and sweet little Bunny of course! We left the big dog at home this time and I hate to say it, the vacation was MUCH calmer and more serene without him!



It wasn't all work though as we did get away to Potato Lake for some rest and relaxation. It my favorite place to take pictures as there is a beautiful group of Aspens which just stand out against the normally green pine trees.









Here is me and my boys Tim and Luke. Boy they sure are getting big and handsome!!










Here is some local wildlife in our front yard. I wish I had a better camera, but these mule eared deer were literally 50 feet from our front door. They let me get pretty close to take their pictures too!

Another great trip!!
Here are some more pics

Luke's First Homecoming

Oct 4th, 2008
My oldest son attended his first homecoming!
He is a Freshman this year at Casa Grande Union High School and is he is quickly changing from a bony young boy into a strapping handsome young man.
He went to the homecoming with a few friends but did not take a date.
His next big dance I believe is the Marine Ball as he is a member of th JROTC.
Isn't he handsome!!!