Fall is here and for us that means bonfires, smores, chili and hot apple cider. Jared has finished the stairs/dock project and the 18'x18' brick patio project so the past 2 weekends we have had 18-23 people over for a cookout/bonfire. It has been wonderful and so far no one has been poked in the eye by a smores stick! This weekend we are having 8-10 adults and 10-12 kids over for pumpkin carving and a cookout/bonfire. I will definetly be taking pictures!
Kate is now 6 weeks old and is smiling more and more. She tends to run out of smiles by evening and just stares at us like we are crazy (who told her!). She is trying very hard to roll from her back to her tummy and has made it to her side. When she was 3 weeks she rolled from her tummy to her back twice. So far it has been great taking her to the office with us. The patients love her and I always get a break from holding her :). So far she has been to the Joyce Meyer Womens Conference in St. Louis with 20,000 women saying "she's so cute" wherever we went, she also came with us to my 15 year class reunion (nothing like your 5 week old smelling like a bar) and attended my friends baby shower at the Melting Pot. We can't wait to meet her little baby in about 6 weeks (hopefully more like 4 weeks)! Kate is the best little traveler. The more noise the better and the more people to hold her the happier she is.Grace is still loving school. She says no one wants to play with her at recess, but we have figured out that no one wants to play what Grace is playing so Grace won't play with them. She has always been a leader and not a follower...hopefully we are raising her to be a good leader :). Grace is still in ballet but won't show me anything she is learning...she says she forgets...Grace doesn't forget anything EVER. She keeps saying that she can't wait for it snow. I keep telling her that snow is a bad word that we shouldn't mention between the months of March and December....she just laughs at me :).Jack is having fun fishing, bow hunting and bb gun hunting. His last football game is this Saturday at 9 a.m. It is supposed to be about 39 degrees here....BRRRRRR. So far his team has won more games than they have lost so he is happy about that. Last Saturday he caught the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. I unfortunetly was at the other end of the field so I didn't get a picture. He can't wait to go to Nana's for Thanksgiving so he can hunt with Jared. We will see how he really likes true hunting....being very quiet, walking for miles and not seeing a darn thing :)....sounds like fun to me.Jared and I are trying to decide if we want to join the Princeton Club and start working out there. The drawback is of course the money every month but also the 2 year contract that we would have to sign. I think it would be good to have somewhere to go swimming this winter and they have open swim for families on Saturday's and Sunday's along with free childcare 7 days a week. Jack is all for it because he heard they have a Wii and other video games :). Grace really wants to learn to swim so she would vote Yes...we will have to see in the next couple days. It would be nice to workout with my peeps at a time other than 5 a.m. :). I just have to make sure we keep using it more than a month. As long as I have friends that expect me to be there, I will be there.
Well, that raps up our past week or so...I will get some new pictures up when Jared gets home with the camera.
ok....it wasn't that bad :).
(She is smiling at Jack and Jack took this picture)
