Fall in McCall

We love McCall year round, but it is especially beautiful right at the start of fall.  If you can catch it just after the leaves start to change but before they start to fall off, it truly is magical.  This is just a picture from right off the back patio of the cabin, not too shabby huh?  The city is also pretty bare at this time of year because there really isn't any outdoor things you can do.  This was McKay's first trip up to McCall and he did great.  We left Friday after Craig got home from work, about 6:00pm.  We had to stop at Cougar Mountain Lodge to feed McKay.  Besides that little stop and Brooklyn complaining about the winding roads it was a pretty painless drive.  Brooklyn was so excited to sleep in Nana's bed at the cabin.  Up until now she has just slept in a pack 'n' play, yes I know she is 3 years old, but she slept really well in it so we didn't want to mess with it.  Since we were the only ones at the cabin for the weekend we decided to spread out a little and gave Brooklyn her own room and she was so excited she got Nana's room.

We were hoping to do some little hikes while we were up there, but it was windy and a little too chilly to take McKay, so we settled for just a bunch of walks around the neighborhood.  We also took a walk around downtown and made a pit stop at a park for Brooklyn to play.  We of course enjoyed some of our favorite restaurants while we were there.  We hit up My Father's Place for dinner on Saturday and Pancake house for breakfast on Monday.  We did our best to watch as much of General Conference as possible, but with two kids we didn't catch a whole lot.  Brooklyn played out in the backyard on the little swing set a ton.  She was so excited because she figured out how to really pump her legs and get going all by herself.  it was really quite impressive.

After a super nice relaxing weekend together as a family we had to get ready to head back to reality.  After a yummy breakfast we cleaned up the cabin and Craig loaded up the car (which was completely packed, adding another kid to bunch sure added a lot more things to our packing list).  we were able to leave right after I fed McKay and so he slept the entire drive home and we made it home without having to stop.  We can't wait to get up there again, but by the time we get up there it will be a lot colder and there might even be snow on the ground.