September

Sorting leaves by color and size. :)

You can't really see it, but there were tons of tiny Forget-me-nots. :)

Here and there and everywhere, looking for creatures. :)

slugs. :)

slug and ???? :)

tiny and big fish swimming around. :)

all wet!!! I didn't see the fall but Jake said it was up to his waist!

"be careful, don't fall"

My dear friend Christina! :)

Lots of lady bugs. :)

the site of one of the snake findings. :)

Jake found snake #2.

Ryan found snake #1. :)

something interesting. :)

Nathan with his special things: truck blanket, pink ducky blanket, puppy, dora book, dora car, 2 cell phones, 2 tiny clown fish, 4 plastic racing flags. Every morning he gathers his special things and puts them in his suitcase or back pack before leaving his room. Cute boy! :)

getting out the apple seeds. :)

taste test/count seeds: apples :)

Lily loves to wear Auntie Jan's apron. :)

Lily loves her doll. :)

picking leaves :)

Scott went waaaaaay out and did a major anniversary surprise for me. It was beyond thoughtful because of all the secret planning. He had to e-mailed my BSF leader several times to arrange how to get all the printed stuff for the new year. He had to make arrangements for Jake not to attend belt ceremony. He had to make sure I quickly retrieves Jake from a sleep over. Who knew he even knew about all this stuff?! My heart was melted just by his involvement in the little details in my regular life. In the end he told me the day before because he needed me to print my stuff for BSF a day early and deliver it to my leader. It was a good thing he did so I could pack the children and my stuff. :) AND our printer was being VERY naughty. But listen to this!!!! This is how he told me..... :)S- "Leah, I have something to tell you...." (I was thinking it was about the budget), tomorrow we are going to dinner at --------, L-WONDERFUL!!! :) L-you arranged a sitter? S-and then to a movie. L-how fun!!!! what is it? S-a surprise. and then to stay the night at the "wonderful local hotel", then to --------- for breakfast and then to ------- for lunch. I was crying by this point. This fellow who I love soooo much arranged all of this? :) L-who is watching the children? S-my mom. :) Wow, thank you Janet for having all three of the children! :) This was Nathans 1st time not sleeping at home without us and he didn't shed a tear. :) Whew! :) The children had a blast and so did we!!!!!!!! All of our eating out was beyond yummy and the movie (Flipped) was super good. :) The Hotel was sooooo WONDERFUL. Just spotless and QUIET!!!!! What a treat to say the least! What a guy I have!!! :)

Isn't it just beautiful?! The bed was super comfy and the bath tub was so relaxing and we loved flicking through cable, and reading without interruption. :) :) :)

Nathan wanted me to draw smiles and belly button (aka button bees). :)

I love it when Nathan does this. :)

I love it when all of us on our block have our flags out. :)

Our sunflowers peeking over the fence. The sunflowers and the purple corn flowers attracted little finches and we have really enjoyed watching them. So cute! :)

Nathan LOVES scissoring and I let him do it to his hearts content because it keeps him busy during school. :)

Hiding under the desk from Jake and Lily with dada. :)

Labor Day in the park listening to the symphony with gramma, papa and some of their good friends. :) Such pretty music. :)

Scott popped and packed popcorn. :)

Self portrait of the two tight buddies. :)

Nathan loves for Scott to teeder totter him like this! :)

My dad took Jake and Gabriel on a pirate cruise on the lake. They had a blast!!!!!! :)

We measured out a square yard and observed all we saw in it. :) Fun! :)

We saw lots of bugs and even a little bunny but the bunny was not in our measured off yard. ;)