Sept wrap-up

Wow, September was such a busy month for us.  We started off Labor Day weekend with some work on the house - Chad scraped and repainted the East wall of our house and I peeled off all the wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom.  We had a BBQ on Labor Day and that was a lot of fun to have friends over and entertain as we hadn't had time for that all summer.

Two days later, Jamie started school and Abby had her pre-conference with her new teacher.  Abby started school, then Tristan the next week.  That weekend we decided to do one more day out at the lake (and boy was the water already cold).

The next weekend was pretty easy-going, Tristan had a cold and cough so we let him rest up.  We went to a BBQ after church on Sunday at Evergreen Park.

My birthday came up last weekend and that was a lot of fun and now finally we are coming up on the final weekend of Sept.  I've spent the last two days gathering items for a community Rummage sale down at our church and it feels good to purge so much stuff that we hadn't even used since moving 2 years ago!

What does October hold for us?  Well, Chad comes home from working in Everett today so thankfully he will be here all month! We're having a get together with some old friends this next weekend and maybe doing a few fall portraits with some other friends on Columbus Day.

Chad plans to take Jamie and Otto to Blake Island for their annual guys trip sometime this month. 

Late in October is where it really gets fun (or stressful, depending on how you look at it).  Abby's birthday is the 30th but that's the same day as their school carnival so maybe we will have to do her birthday the weekend before? So we have the school carnival and her birthday, and then Halloween the next day, and then the very next day I am taking Abby to Everett to see Disney on Ice for a girls trip. We will use Chad's hotel points to get a room at the hotel where he stays for work and I'll let her skip school the next day!

So that, combined with the fact that now the downstairs bathroom is only half done and my garden has been neglected for half the summer, it feels like a lot of stuff coming up. Good thing I have a new espresso machine, I'm gonna need it!

On Jamie's first day Tristan insisted that I make him a lunch too so I made one for Abby as well and we had a picnic at the park.

They had train rides in the mall.

Grandma took Tristan on it and he LOVED it!

bowling

We were supposed to go bowling after Silver City on Saturday but since that didn't work out we ended up going on Sunday instead. The kids had a blast. Tristan stood watch over his ball when it wasn't his turn and the most exciting thing for him was waiting and watching for his ball to show back up after bowling it (he could care less how many pins he got down).

They gave us a ramp for Tristan to roll the ball down.

They gave us a 6 lb ball so he could {kinda} carry it.

go!

Jamie got a strike!

The dude.

Tristan's favorite part!

Waiting...

Don't you want to see how many you knock down? Nope!

My bday!

I can't believe I'm 35. Ugg. Well, at least I had a nice birthday weekend!

Tristan and I went out to lunch earlier in the week to use my bday coupon.

We split a california chicken pizza.

I got my haircut on my birthday!

When Chad got home on Friday I opened my presents.

Abby insisted we wrap everything even though they were already in boxes from Amazon.

I got an espresso machine!

Chad and I went out Friday night while the kids stayed at my parents.  We went shopping at the Vintage Market where I got some new "beachy" signs and then we ate at Fondi's in Gig Harbor (one of my faves).

The next morning I did my first 5k!

A remake of our finish (the camera had no card in it) - we ran the whole way and finished in 36 minutes.

Later that night we went to Silver City for dinner.

And then had red velvet cupcakes for dessert!

Summer's last hoorah

Schoools back in session, but with weather still in the 70's and 80's (warmer than it was in June), we decided to spend a day at the lake one last time before it got too cold. And actually, it was already a bit too cold for my liking but I still had fun hanging out in the sun and watching the kids play.

Tristan pushes in Chad.

push!

He gets a kick out of it :)

Tristan is getting braver in the water.