i am grateful for a tree with the green on top...

since we moved in we've had a poor tree in the front yard that was diseased and was bare on top but had lots of green sprouts growing from the trunk...
we just got a new beautiful october glory maple...its just a baby tree but at least the green is on top...

{good rainy morning kai and silas!}

{mmmm....oatmeal!}

we are also so thankful and grateful that the doctors have discovered that tim's back pain {probably mostly because of the usmc} is because of three bulged discs in his back and he is being treated now!  on the road to recovery!