Volleybasket

Last day of September.  Which means - IT IS SPOOKY SEASON!!!!   So exciting.  Tomorrow we break out Halloween decorations and start making pumpkin spice everything.  It’s going to be amazing!!! 

Today was Cameron’s last day at his old job.  He will start a new job on Monday.  I’m excited to see how it goes. New adventures, new people to meet.  

Madison also started a new job today.  She is working a couple mornings a week at the bakery in town.  She will still be driving the bus, but this is her happy place.  I’m excited for her, although I would be more excited if the job had samples for the next door neighbors in town. 

TONIGHT, Evie had a volleyball game.  We went over to watch and Wrenley came to see me.  As I always do, I asked her “what are you doing here??”   Wren very seriously responded “Evie is playing volley basket!”

Of course.  Silly me!    

Evie did a great job of staying focused, being ready and paying attention to directions.  Her team even won one of the matches?  Games?  Sets?   I don’t know what cha call it.  They lost the other 2 though.  They will get bigger, stronger and better as they go!   And at least Volley basket was indoors!  It has been raining for days! 

Well sort of - Tatum plays sand volleyball.  Cameron subbed in on her team tonight and they played in the rain.  I got mixed reviews on how things went. Tatum might be putting him on some sort of training regimen or he might be a natural.  The jury is still out. 

 

Mallory finally got in with a GI dr and got on the schedule for more tests. I certainly hope she finds some sort of answers. . 

This boy is the cutest little man.  

Now I must rest.  There is so much to do to get ready for October!!  

 

In my opinion....

 

Weekends should be longer.  I suggest we add Monday to the weekend.  Nobody likes Monday anyway, might as well try to make it more popular by giving it a weekend vibe.  

If I ever get in charge, that is the first order of business.  

We did have a great weekend, and I was definitely not ready to return to work.  I did get up, shower, drive small children to school, and showed up for work, and even accomplished a couple of things!  I didn't want to though!

These 2 were out shopping for outfits for the baptism.  I was sad the hats didn't seem to make the final cut!  

Sunday seems to have been a perfect day for fishing.  Wren caught a couple of nice ones - and she was excited about getting to throw them back!

And after seeing these photos, I am now aware of why Evie calls Cameron the "tiny fish catcher!" 

Thank you for the photos Tatum!

Last week, I took an online class on how to propagate my blackberry and blueberry plants.  Before we took off for Wichita, I got up and helped the girls with chores, and then made 13 little new starts off of my blackberry plants.  I have no idea if I did it right, but the steps seemed simple enough.  I set everything up on the front porch, and when I was done, I pushed them back against the wall.  My intent is to take them to my office for the winter, where they can sit inside by a window and hopefully grow big enough to be transplanted outside in the spring.  I left the dogs outside while we were gone.  Someone (Maude) ate some of my cuttings.  I was NOT very happy!  I did redip them in the rooting powder, and replanted them.  I guess we shall see if it works or not!

I spent part of Sunday working on propagating some blueberry bushes, and picking herbs and drying them.  I am thrilled that my pepper plants are all bloomed out again, and that the stuff I planted in a fall garden is all up and looking happy!  Maybe I will get a few more things to eat or can out there!  Side note - it is so much nicer to work outside in the garden when it is in the 70's!

I would be out there doing more, but Monday just has to be a workday!

Baptism

Yesterday, Easton was baptized.  

And yes, I did take a lot of pictures.  Am I sorry about it?  Absolutely not!  

Look at this little perfect angel baby that we love so much!  You could never have enough photos of him or enough time with him.  (His parents too!). 

And I didn’t even do a good job of getting photos because all of the kids were there except Quincy who had to work and I missed that.  

So see, I should have taken more!  

Two Godparents, and they chose to give Cameron the fire?  Interesting choice.  

We attended mass, and then had dinner at Colin and Spencer’s house.  Colin smoked a gator for dinner.  Spencer got sandwiches and pizza, just in case!  

The gator was surprisingly good.  Colin said a friend at work told him how to do it and gave him a lot of advice.  It paid off.  I was a little worried but shouldn’t have been. 

I do wish I had a photo of Evie’s face. She was horrified on the gator thing.  She did NOT try it either!  

Yesterday was a very good day and I’m so happy we got to be a part of it.