A group photo is a must at our annual Thanksgiving celebration! There are some slight differences between one picture and the next...especially one sweet family member missing
Burning off Thanksgiving calories Kessler style
Ellie was napping during the group photo!
It is hard to believe our big pup, Winston, is 11 years old. Here's Anna singing Happy Birthday to him. He kindly waited until we were finished singing to eat his banana muffin with cheese stick candle.
One happy girl playing in the leaves
There is nothing like spur of the moment! A week before we had no idea we would be in the mountains. So thankful my parents called us at the last minute to ask us to join them on a relaxing weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains. This was sandwiched in between some amazing weekends over the past month at our church which we happily gave our time to and now a full-on workload for Bryan. God knows how to work out the timing and details of our lives and gave us the desires of our heart to see a bit of the fall foliage. 
Having a blast with Grandpa!
Fort Mountain is at the very edge of the North Geogia Mountains so if you look from one vantage point you see the beginning of the mountains and then flat land yet from another point all you see are the mountains.
Sitting on the porch overlooking the mountains.
There were bears EVERYWHERE at the house.
A treat for Anna - a katydid!
A treat for Bryan - pacman.
What kid wouldn't like sleeping in bunk beds!
Bryan loves the fact that Anna is getting serious about football. He finally has a football buddy in the house.
