TA DA....

Our side yards are paved, yipeee! We are lucky to have some connections and have some very generous friends who helped in this entire process. Thanks Danny and Sarah!!

Space that was not usable now feels like an addition to our house. We are so happy.




This is a question that will most likely happen in a year or so from now:

"Mommy. Why isn't my hand print and foot print on the cement?"

"Because you freaked out Drew and thought the cement was going to swallow you like a large crocodile in the wild"

The real conversation at present time goes a little something like this:
"Drew..why isn't your hand print under your name like Lilly?"

"I cry mommy. I run away from Grandma.(my mom was the one here when it happened and we were on a plane)Grandma says she gives me 10 chocolate chips. I run away and cry and scream no"

That is what he told me.

My mom has supported those statements of Drew's as facts.

Where are the ear plugs now?

Is summer over?

I guess with September here, school starting, and the fall TV line up appearing on my television set.... then summer is over.


We took another little field trip to the SF zoo at the end of summer. The kids enjoyed it and all Drew wanted to do was find a grasshopper. Okay...the kid that hates bugs and never gets very close. But there was a insect zoo that we found and his bug request was granted. Lilly was just happy to see whatever animal was around.

Lilly happily helped Todd push the stroller.


They enjoyed watching the bears swim. This was the closest we got to any animal that day. I have heard I need to try the Oakland zoo and we will. With that said, the SF zoo is seeing very empty these days, so it was a treat to actually see the bears up close.


This is a very concerned look by Lilly when the train blew it's whistle.





The hit of the day for Drew was getting to make a regular penny into a special penny. We all know that machine that flattens out the penny and puts a print of your choice on it instead. "I hold my monies" Drew said all day.





We did ride the train, and I covered Lilly's ears when the whistle blew so she wouldn't jump off the moving train.


At the insect zoo they chose which creature to become. Drew not really center, but just pretend he is for better effect.





And then there was the wedding. The wedding that Todd got ordained online to perform for a close friend of his from college. Does the Pastor usually bust a move on the dance floor?



It was so fun for Todd and I to have some adult time. Here is a list of things I didn't do for three days while we on this little trip down to San Diego:

I didn't do dishes
I didn't change a diaper
I didn't get up in the middle of the night to console a child from a bad dream.
I didn't clean.

Things I did do:
Sleep in
Eat out every meal
Finish a glass of wine
Shop at an outlet mall that was sent from angels



The bride and groom- Misty and Eric


Todd performing the ceremony. He got many laughs and many snivels at the appropriate times.


Funny story about this picture. Notice how Todd was not in a tuxedo and standing on the very end. Eric did not ask him to wear a tuxedo. So the photographer kept asking Eric, "do you want this guy in the suit in this picture?" HA Todd was always on the end like a guest of the wedding creeping in the groomsmen pictures. We got a good laugh about this.






We were very happy to get home. We missed the kids. We missed our bed. Amen.

A Motto to live by

I am considering enlarging this to 11 x 14, frame it, and then hang it by our dining room table.

Hey, I now know...

That if we had to...our kids could be carry-on's




Well...Lilly more than Drew

Drew is always prepared....

....for the loudness of the Sonoma County Air show. He liked having these ear plugs in...funny little boy.




Now with the ear plugs gone, he covers his ears with his fingers or hands and says, "I can't hear you mama because of my ear plugs."

Awesome.

That's genius.

Why not paint a race track on paper....it's a gift that keeps on giving, and an activity that keeps his attention.



Seriously wimpy race track, so we will work on expanding that idea.