My Crazy Life as a Farmers Wife

Early Spring Blossoms

I've been patient...and finally, things are starting to bloom around here! Spring has been a little slow showing up this year, as it often does in Idaho. I am tempted by all of the spring photos from friends in warmer climates, and we had an early spell of warm weather followed by wind and small snow storms that seemed to last weeks. I hope spring is really on it's way this time! The flowers can't lie, right???

Russell Family Photos 2012

We snapped a few family photos when everyone was together for Thanksgiving. I hate trying to get my own family photos...because they never turn out how I want them to...because trying to be in the photos and get your kids to cooperate, as well as getting the camera settings all figured out and handing the camera over to someone else...it is just too much. I guess I should just be grateful we got our family documented this year :)

Autumn

It has been beautiful, but I am sad that fall started to fade a little too quickly. I love fall. It is easily my favorite season, but it seems that it started out beautiful, and then it turned out to be more "winterish". You never know how long Autumn will last in the Northwest...you could have months of beautiful leaves and weather, you could have a short fall followed by winter, or some years, we seem to skip fall alltogether and go straight into winter. This year, it started of nice...but it seems to have turned somewhere along the way. We haven't had a lot of nice days lately to spend outside, so I'm thankful for all the time we spend outdoors earlier.

and then one morning, we just woke up to a blanket of snow...of course, it is beautiful in it's own way, I'm just not quite ready for it yet.