The beginning of Fall

Here are some highlights:

Things have been so crazy for us. We worked at the Fair, attended the Fair, recovered from the Fair, I worked on getting my Iron levels balanced out – which resulted in several good days and several not so good, and life still continued on around us.

Adelynn and I attended a flower shopping afternoon with some friends.
(This picture is worth posting again)

We have started our Small Group up again, we meet every Friday now. We are doing a marriage study, which has been enjoyable. This Friday, everyone brought appetizers to our house and Dave made his fabulous Cheese Dip. It was nice to have one less thing to think about preparing for.

Adelynn and I went to the Kohl’s opening on Monday, we went again on Friday and we are going a third time –and taking Dave- after nap today. The sales were 20% off on Monday and were 40%-50% off on Friday. I think we’ve done enough pre-shopping that we might just buy something today!

I am now 16 weeks pregnant… it is amazing that time has gone so fast! The baby is now the size of an avocado. I feel movement sometimes, and we have heard the heartbeat twice now. Baby is always on the left it seems. We called Adelynn “Pat” (SNL reference) We don’t have a name for this baby yet.

Adelynn is just a bundle of joy. We laugh with her all the time. If you don’t read my blog, you should check out the “Oh, Adelynn” posts. http://laughterandlattes.wordpress.com/ Unfortunately, we have had many flies in our house recently. Fortunately, Adelynn has become an excellent little fly swatter. She has successfully killed 4 flies in the last couple of weeks - all on her own, with a fly swatter, without help! Dave was stunning some this morning and she would walk around and stomp them like spiders (those are not included in her fly-death count). She's a great helper :)

We had our 8th grade reunion at our house last night. I know this sounds like a crazy concept, but when you have such a small class, spending most of your classes together, you get to know each other very well. We have all stayed in touch since that time, 10 years ago.

We had 8/19 of our original class there. (Adelynn hopped into this picture.) 3 drove from Wichita, 1 came from Newton, 3 of us were in Hutch, and one came from Virginia, just for this event!! We ate, hung out, reminisced, watched old movies, met significant others, looked at old photos, and played games. 


(Spouses/Significant Others/Children included – other classmates have kids, but none of those classmates were there)


This was my favorite part… you know that saying “No matter who you are, when a toddler hands you a pretend phone, you answer it.”? We had to hold off pictures so Adelynn could make them supper. These guys pretended right along with her. She was up until 11:30, and she had a blast. She kept talking about “my friends”.  She said the same thing about our Small Group on Friday. She loves company!

That’s about all I know. Have a great week!

Hello All:

We are enjoying the cooler weather and the small showers of rain when they come.  Tim, Vicki and Samuel went to Austin and visited James and Hannah over labor day.  Samuel and James attended the UT football game.  We all went to a river where they let people swim.  (I can't remember the name).  We also did some shopping at the outlet mall.  That was fun:)  And of course had some bar-b-que. 

Last week Vicki attended continuing education held by the Goodville company.  It is at Botanica so at lunch we get to walk through.  The roses were really nice and they were planting mums. They also have a garden train now -Santa Fe and Amtrak cars! 

Tim spent this weekend in Cincinnatti, OH.  His position as director of the west central division of MTNA will have him traveling there several times this year.  He looked quite sharp in his new "professor" sport coat:)

Erik is back at Tulsa University studying biology, genetics (not his favorite) and calculus.  He played Ultimate frisbee this weekend in a tournament in Tulsa.  He is working the desk in his dorm lobby on Sat and Sunday nights.  Glad it is him and not me - those 10pm-2am hours would do me in!

Samuel is starting to do senior "Stuff".  Jostens arrives for them to place graduation orders.   He will be  scheduling a senior picture time, taking the ACT test, and completing college application, etc.  East has  added several new people this fall to their ultimate team.  He is in Hesston today "jamming" with a friend.

 This last picture is from the July Ultimate tournament in Topeka.  The team is from Tulsa, East, and East alumni.  Their medals were for second place. 

 

Have a good end of September!
Love to all, Vicki, Tim, Erik, Samuel.

What a Fun Time!

Randy and I have been enjoying the month of September with the granddaughters and other family members.  He really misses being able to spend time with them when he is on the road.  He will start up travel again in a couple of weeks.  I am back at school teaching reading to K-5th graders.  I have a couple of new programs I am using so it has been lots of preparation and organization to get everything ready.  It is starting to even out now but oh my that first couple of weeks.  Here are a few of our favorite pictures. 

Garden of the Gods - Colorado - July 21, 2012

Family Dinner - July 27, 2012

Singing Happy Birthday with a "little prayer" too.

Blowing out the candles.

Olivia trying out Great-Grandma's glasses.

Peeking and squealing with excitement!  September 1, 2012 was a fun evening.  The little girls gave us lots of special moments and laughs to make our day. 

Johnston Summer

Dave and I put in 100+ hours at the Fair this year (this is our 6th year and the last year for that many hours!) We had planned to take Thursday off to go together as a family. Dave took the day off work as well. The weather was crummy, but we had a good time!
Last year the train experience didn’t go so well as you might recall…

She enjoyed the train this year! Look how much she loved the ferris wheel! (This photo was taken while we were sitting at the top for several minutes)

We spent the day with friends Claire and Kate in Hesston - doing some Fall flower shopping. It rained on us, but we had a good time. Kate put one behind Adelynn’s ear. It stayed there until nap time.
This is when we knew we needed a sprinkler that was actually fun…
93* and the rain coat was her idea.

Adelynn has really come into her own over the Summer. Her independence blossomed like crazy. Next Summer will be a whole new ballgame…