Friday favorites: special birthday edition!

Happy birthday Mom and Charlie! If you give Charlie dog-year credit, he just passed Mom up. I’ll let you do the calculations. 🙂 (This photo is from last year’s celebration and remains one of my favorites! Charlie looks a little less enthused about the whole birthday thing.)

Happy birthday Mom!

Friday favorites: Happy birthday Charlie!

Of course, if it’s fall and it’s Friday, you’ll find leaf pictures on this blog. I can’t help myself.

Fall spectacular at Hawkes Landing

Friday favorites: fall spectacular

And another beautiful ride around Hawkes Landing.

Friday favorites: a boy and his toys

Friday favorites: fall at Hawkes Landing

A night out with some of the grandchildren: dinner at iHOP and “Wicked-er” at Desert Star Playhouse.

Friday favorites: special birthday edition

Papa and Piper at iHOP

Getting ready for "Wicked-er" at Desert Star Playhouse

And this week’s pumpkin tasting: old-fashioned pumpkin pie, it’s hard to improve on this original.

Friday favorites: pumpkin tasting

That’s it for me. What were your favorite moments from this week?

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  1. I celebrated my 26 wedding anniversary! And something pumpkin to try is pumpkin cheesecake at The Cheese Cake Factory. It was really yummy!

  2. Love that picture of Mom! I gotta say, pumpkin scones were a highlight of my week. Oh, and our temps dropped into the low 90s, woot! Arizona has two seasons, heaven and hell. We’re heading toward heaven, but I truly miss autumns in Utah. Oh, and happy anniversary, Cindy!

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