Here's Becca at Halloween this year (I'm editing this post to include up-to-date picture and info). She really wanted to go trick-or-treating as Sporticus, from LazyTown (If you don't know LazyTown, you'll have to watch Nick Jr. on Cable).

After nixxing about four costumes, she finally went as Strawberry Shortcake. She's wearing a wonderfully crafted, crocheted outfit made by her Aunt Kasey.

Here she's sitting on our front porch with a jack-O'Lantern behind her.

We've been pretty busy, finishing up with the house, getting things organized and attending lots of activities! We've been going to the football games, if only so Becca could watch the band. She's so funny. We went to the ISSMA band competition in Chesterton because Plymouth's band made the top 10. As we watched, Becca was standing on my lap and swinging her arms like the drum majors. I think we have another band fanatic on our hands.

We are getting a lot of rain, but the temps are still in the 50s and 60s. The leaves are changing, and falling. Pretty soon, I'm going to have to start raking. I think I'll wait until the leaves dry out. I'm hoping snow comes pretty soon so I can get out of mowing the lawn.

The garage is almost cleaned out. It's to the point where I think we can park a vehicle inside. I still need to move some more boxes inside, but, we're almost there.

After a day and a half of stretching chain link fence and twisting fence ties, etc., my fingers are about worn to the knubs. Needless to say, the fence project is as completed as its going to get for now. We have a way to keep Rebecca from wandering down the alley and visiting our neighbors' backyards. Not that we would not want Rebecca to visit our neighbors, mind you.

I've never really lived in a place where people did not put up privacy fences. It's nice on the one side, because you can really get to enjoy your neighbors. For instance, the people we bought our house from actually live two doors down from us! The house we bought from them was actually a house they had purchased for their daughter and her husband, who was getting out of the army. They lived here for awhile, then built a house outside of town. So, we happened along. We looked at the house back in July, just before we started our new jobs, then looked at fifty others and nothing compared to space and livability as does this one. But, the one thing we needed was a fence for our backyard.