SEPTEMBER

How are these months passing by so quickly? September was a very full month for us we stayed very busy having lots of fun. John and I got to have lots of good quality date time and we even got a weekend away on a marriage retreat with our church. This was a wonderful weekend, spending time together visiting with other Christian couples resting and relaxing and just rejuvenating our marriage. The weekend before this we actually got to go on a date for free!!! We just got a Red Robin here (whoo hoo, so excited!!!) and somehow we got on the mailing to come to there trial run and get a free meal!!! We had free babysitting and free food you can't beat that!!

Meagan is staying busy with school and has really started to excel with reading and math. She actually won a gift card to the book store because she had so many AR (accelerated reader) points. She was so excited to go pick out new chapter books to read. She is also playing fall softball so this keeps her busy on Tues and Thurs with practice and games. We just recently signed her up for Girl Scouts with me volunteering for troop leader!!(yikes) I am excited and she was really excited about this, it will be good quality time together for us.

Jacob is home with me, we couldn't make up our minds about Kindergarten, (he'll go, he won't etc.) so we lost our spot at our WONDERFUL preschool. He was doing a mother's day out, but it was just feeling like such a hassle and it really wasn't a "day out" for me, so he's home and we are working on reading and writing and math and other "kindergarteny" things. He is also back into gymnastics one day a week which he loves. Next month will be his first meeting at the "bug club" The bug club will be just what my bug catcher needs, ALL summer long I was brought and still am any and every new bug he finds to see what it eats and where we can keep it because it is his new pet. The bug club will teach him all about Bug's every question he's had about bugs should get answered here. He's excited!!!

Ryder, is 18 months and busy busy busy.. He will climb anything and everything. He is our ball player I think. If you can throw it or swing it that is what he does, he always wants to play catch or hit and he actually has it down how to hold the bat. It is very impressive to watch. His personality is just really coming out and is so fun to watch him develop and grow. He gets so frustrated if Meagan or Jacob are doing something that he can't, he doesn't understand why he can't do whatever they are doing. He keeps me on my toes all day long.

Oluve you!!!

I was cooking dinner with Ryder grabbing my legs saying "num, num" so I popped open a can of olives and he was satisfied :) he loves his olives.

summer fun

These were taken on one of the last days of summer vaca. before school started ( a month and 1//2 ago) The kids wanted me to take silly photos of them. We had a lot of fun!!!