Labor Day Weekend!

Well, it was a hoppin weekend here once again. Since Deb couldn't come visit with Briana this past July, she cashed in her tickets for last weekend and was able to stay a few extra days due to the holiday and her mother-in-law passing away the week before. Would have loved to have been at Rose's service, but thanks to technology, We watched the taped version that was available online. Beautiful!

Of course we tried to jam as much in as possible, and had intentions of doing much more than we actually did. =) From the pictures I ended up with it seemed like we just spend all our time inside. NOT the case. The weather was beautiful...we sat outside and drew some pictures with chalk, carousel with the boys and grammy and grandpa, walked around downtown St. Joe, enjoyed some fine dining at Silver Beach Pizza, the grill a few times, waffles, and delicious stir fry. mmmm. also, the weather was great and we had the windows open and breeze flowin thru the house.....ahhhh FALL HAS BEGUN. =)

Here's the picture reel......


Now amongst these here photos you might have seen a couple of florescent orange sticks, I will tell you that for Hunter's birthday this year, which was Monday, the Thomas's gifted his first EVER pair of stilts!!! He didn't even know what they were at first. hahahaaa. But 24 hours later he had the hang of it and was taking like 10 steps at a time! I tell ya...age 9 is the perfect year for stilting. I was laying awake one night when i couldn't sleep trying to figure out how old we were on the farm when dad made ours for us - and came to the conclusion that I didn't know but it had to be somewhere around then. We had 2 or 3 sets i think, all started with our crazy days with the Magnusson kids, but we would race each other across the front yard and set up obstacle courses for ourselves. Oh the days of cheap entertainment! Couldn't tell ya when the last time I stilted was, but of course I had to try them out and sure enough, it's like riding a bike!...maybe I should try skipping with them...haha.

Anyhoo, school started yesterday here for the kids. Had to get Ash's highlight appointment in before she went back - the after shot is in there too. It looked great. Elle is here now for a few weeks while Emily finishes out teaching the rest of her pregnancy. Can't imagine another little one in the mix! 5 more weeks and he'll be here!!! I'm just glad Syd has a friend to play with....all these boys around here =) They are definitely both excited to see each other in the mornings and after naps and such. so cute! They read like this for like 10 minutes this afternoon. haa


SIGH...just tryin to get into the swing of fall...gotta get the decorations out here pretty soon. YES!! my favorite season is just beginning and I have a ton of new recipes to try. Stay tuned for more adventures!