Santa Fe family visit and fall is coming

Hard to believe but we've had a whole other family visit come and go. This time was most of our family in Santa Fe - Lisa, Charles, Chase, Heli, and little Layla. Missing you Nancy and Rodney!
It was very short but everyone seemed to have a great time. And of course they all made it to the Stash and Third Bowl with an added toy store visit. So great to see them all. It's been too long!
Mark made it in after horrendous plane travel where everything that could go wrong did, leaving him with only a couple of hours to visit before everyone had to take off for back home in Santa Fe. Better than nothing at all.

Heli, Layla, and Lisa -Layla is my great niece and Penny and Jules 2nd cousin

Sweet sweet family. And a hard working bunch too - running a food truck and catering for TV and movie production companies. Check out Palate food truck Santa Fe. Terrific food if you're in the area!

The 4 amigos. They showed up under our deck right before everyone got here. Stayed resting for 2 hours. The photos under the deck aren't great but I had to sneak up by the window and take stealth pics. They probably would have hopped in the hammock to continue the relaxation if they could have. Just gorgeous bucks in velvet.

Layla enjoying some of Penny and Jules stash of toys 

Layla, a girl of many faces and outfits...

It started off fairly warm but breezy, then got to the downright chilly. As you can tell some people do not feel the cold - at all.

This little girl never stops moving. Layla jumped on the girls' scooter for her first time and took off like a shot. Even developed a couple of tricks before she was done. She brought her bike in case there wasn't enough to do. Buzzed around for a bit also talking a mile a minute at the same time. Multi talented - I expect to hear about star athlete Layla one day...

Fall is definitely in the air, most of the hummingbirds have left, haying is almost complete, and temps are starting to drop in tiny increments. An explosion of yellow, orange, and red color is next. I'll likely miss most of it - Heather and Brian's baby is soon to arrive and I'll be jumping on a plane to go back east where fall will not have started. Our seasons are short except for winter and that one is lonnnngggg.