Walk this Way

Ah, Fall has arrived.  One of my two favorite seasons (Spring & Fall).  The weather finally cools down after putting up with months of the dreaded southern heat.  The leaves begin to change.  The cool evenings where you wrap yourself up in a blanket, make yourself a warm mug of cider and sit around the fire pit roasting marshmallows. 

With the weather being so mild lately (mid 70's & 80's), I decided to get back into my walking routine.  I just couldn't do it during the summer b/c a) I couldn't find the time and b) it was so dang hot & humid.  But now that it's cooler out, I have been spending my lunch hours walking 30 minutes with coworkers.  Then when I get home, I load Abbie up in her stroller and we walk the neighborhood for 30 minutes.  It is such a good way to relax after a hard day at work.

Abbie loves going for walks.  There is so much to see and most of the time she is sound asleep by the time we get home.  I got her a new stroller.  The one I had from before was okay for walks but it was so big & bulky.  It took up so much room in the Element and it was such a pain to navigate around the stores in the mall.  So I found this smaller, lightweight umbrella stroller on sale for $100 at Babies R Us.  With my coupon + tax, I spent $86.  And it's wonderful for tall people like me.  No need to hunch over while pushing it.  My favorite features is the cup holder and a basket down below.  And it also comes with a matching tote bag.  I would tell you if you were in the hunt for a good stroller to go buy this one but I just went on Babies R Us' website and I can't find it on their website anymore.  So I'm glad I snatched it up when I did!!  I did find it on Amazon.com but it's double in price from what I paid at BRU.

Here is a then & now shot of our walks that I put together on Picnik.  Can you believe that eight months lapsed between these pictures?  Where did my baby go!?!

Video of the Week

I finally turned off my A/C!!  Yes folks, I believe fall has finally arrived in Oklahoma.  It's about time since the first day of fall was last Thursday!!  I can't wait to watch my electric bill plummet.  :)  Of course that means that pretty soon my gas bill will skyrocket.  Seems as if Spring and Autumn get the short end of the stick when it comes to seasons.  We go straight from hot and humid to cold and blustery with about a month of mild temps in between.

Anyway, back to the video.  I turned off my A/C yesterday, opened up the windows in the house and turned on the attic fan so we could get some air circulating in our house.  It was so nice enjoying a nice cool breeze throughout the house.  Here we have Abbie and Frank conversing at the screen door.  Looks as if I'm going to have to figure out how to lock this screen door.  I think Frank is warning me, "Mom...hurry...Abbie is going to escape!!"


Hey Abbie, can you let me in?? from Megan Vogt on Vimeo.


**REMINDER** 
This is the last week that you can vote for Abbie in the Gerber Generation Next Star contest.  So please go vote now and make sure you vote daily for the rest of the week.  She is very close to 200 votes!!