Last leaves to fall

The leaves on our Silver Maples are always the last to fall. When they do, there is always an impressive pile to play in. This year Griffin and Ruby spent a good part of their day raking, piling and then jumping.

Punkin' huntin'

Corn maze mayhem!

Dad spent part of his day herding 7 second graders through the Tucker farms  corn maze. In the end we collected all the missing map pieces and returned with all 7 second graders! Success.

Coney Mountain

And to finish off an awesome fall Adirondack weekend, we hiked up a little mountain south of Tupper Lake called Coney Mountain. It offers incredible views of 10 different water sheds from the summit, forests filled with fern beds, HUGE Yellow birch & Sugar Maple trees, and a big ass hornets nest. The hike started with a little bit of complaining, but by the end everyone was loving the day. Afterwards we stopped off at Bog River Falls to throw sticks in the rushing water.

notice the lower lip

Moose like to eat Striped Maple bark

Bigger that 2 kids heads put together! YIKES!!!!

Evening Autumn sunset, moonrise paddle

What an incredible weekend in the Adirondacks! Beautiful days filled with sunshine and blue skies, along with the color of the changing leaves and a three day weekend, could get any better!

Heading out to Bluff Island on Lower Saranac Lake for a sunset/moonrise dinner.

Kids getting heated up before their plunge into the cold water! Jumping jacks, squat thrusts, push-ups, and mountain climbers should do the trick. 

Ruby helping Griffin with his push-ups. What a good little sister.

Rock, paper, scissors to decide who jumps in first.

Griffin made the jump so suddenly (after much deliberation) that I missed the picture.

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and Ruby followed.

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