Here are some of the random things we did in September.
Ella ended up earning 2 more free tickets to Wild Waves so her and Justine were able to go one more time. It was on Labor Day, September 1st, and we were thinking it was going to be crazy, but it actually wasn't as busy as it was the Sunday I took the whole youth group. The weather wasn't the greatest, but it was the last opportunity that they'd have to do go so they just had to make do.
After Justine and Ella went off on their own, I dressed their stuffed animals in their matching shirts and then posed them.
Bunny and Pikachu had a great day at the water park even though Bunny almost got stung by a bee.
The biggest bummer of the day was that they were out of some of their condiments and supplies. It was the end of the season so I get them not wanting to reorder a bunch of stuff right before they close down for the year. They were out of the large Icee cups and they were also out of ranch. That was the really bummer because it's just not right eating chicken with ketchup!
Snuggling!
On Wednesday, September 3rd, Zeke had his follow up appt with the pediatric cardiologist. He sees a cardiologist and a pulmonologist every two years to check in on both this heart and his lungs because he has Pectus Excavatum....a concaved chest. This time around they found out that part of his heart is being constricted and affected by his Pectus. We made an appt for the next month to come back in for Zeke to do an exercise test so they could gage just how affected his heart is by his Pectus.
On Friday, September 5th, Logan came over to visit for the weekend.
Earlier this year we talked about getting bestie pictures for the girls. I was around their age when I got bestie pictures with my best friend and it was so much fun!
A week before Logan came over on, Saturday, August 30th, I was at the mall with Ella and Justine. We went into JCPenney's to look around. I wanted to say "Hi" to Pooja who always takes the kids pictures...now that both Owen and Jack are finished with birthday pictures we won't get to see her as often. When I was talking with her I remembered that Logan was coming over the next weekend so I should just go ahead and schedule pictures so that's what I did. The photo session was scheduled for 1:45pm the following Saturday.
Jen met us at JCPenney's the next day for the photo sessions. Pooja had so much fun with the girls. I'll post the pictures in a separate blog. I had bought a Groupon so we would get the same deal I always get for the kids' birthday pictures, but Jen went ahead and bought the entire digital album since it was going to be too hard to decide which 3 pictures to choose from since all the pictures were so cute.
After pictures we went and got lunch. I got Chipotle, Ella got Panda Express and Logan and Jen got burgers. We wanted to hang out more so we walked all through the mall and bought some jewelry and then we walked by Undercover Fries and we had to introduce Jen and Logan to them.
We got a large basket to share. We get them with the BBQ and Sour Cream seasoning mixed. In fact the guy that ordered in front of me placed the same order.
We got normal fries since Logan doesn't like curly fries and while they were good...curly fries are even better! Oh man...now I need some of there fries!
On Sunday, September 7th, after church we needed to go buy croissants from Costco so we could have croissant sandwiches at our first Sunday Night Life (SNL) Group with the youth that started the night.
Ella and Justine messing around before everyone showed up for our SNL group.
Every April & September, Michael and I get to go to his water conference that's put on by WASWD. The engineer firm that Michael uses always takes their customers out for a nice dinner one of the nights. At this dinner they always have LEGO flower arrangements as the centerpieces of the tables. At the end of the dinner those centerpieces get given away in some way whether it's because you have a sticker under your chair or your birthday is the closest. I mentioned to the lady that plans the dinners if she needed help putting the LEGO flower arrangements together I'd be happy to help...plus I have teenagers that love to put LEGO's together. She actually reached out to me at the beginning of September to ask if I was still interested to which I said...YES!!! She ordered the LEGO's and had them shipped directly to our house. She order 6 of the same flower arrangement.
On Monday, September 8th, Justine came over in the afternoon after Ella was finished with school and they decided to each put one together.
Actually they decided to race to see who could put it together the fastest and lets just saying racing with LEGO's isn't really a good idea. You almost always end up forgetting a step or doing something wrong. They did eventually both finish putting their flower arrangements together though.
Owen didn't have a job lined up after his job with the water district ended. In order to motivate him to get another job, we told him that he would be working for about 2 hours everyday doing odd jobs around the house and he needed to apply for at least 2 jobs every day until he got a new job. It really ended up being so nice since we had a lot of odd jobs that needed to be taken care of around the house. The one he tackled first was burning all the leftover scraps of construction wood we had piled up next to the shed. He spent hours and hours outside burning wood. There were times the he need to go eat lunch or go do something else so then I would go out and tend to the fire. We all actually tended to the fire at one time or another. I really enjoyed taking over for Owen when he needed me to. The only thing I didn't enjoy is how I smelled like smoke afterwards.
Jackson sits on this loveseat everyday for school and everyday Charlie comes over to kneed and then lay down for his hours and hours of beauty sleep!
Michael's water conference was September 15th - Sept 18th. On Wednesday, September 17th, WASWD had their big party since they were celebrating 30 years of existence. We all had to wear party hats so I just had to take a picture of Michael and Peter in their party attire.
When we got home from the conference on Thursday night, Ella showed me how she learned to put her hair in a messy bun. It looked so good!!! Unfortunately she's forgotten how she did it since she can't really put her hair up like very often because her hair is so heavy it ends up giving her a headache.
On Monday, September 22nd, we had an official first in our house. The first time I sent any of my kids to Costco to buy stuff. We had just recently gotten Michael taken off our Costco card....he has a business one through work so he never uses the personal one...and we had Jack add to our account. I needed just a few things so I went online and found the things I needed took pictures of them and texted them to Jack. Owen went with him and Jack only had to call me once because he couldn't locate a couple of things. He's since gone back one other time to buy Feta for me. It's a whole new world!!!
