Hello All

In all fairness, I would have blogged sooner (well, maybe not), but our camera has gone to the great place in the sky where all good cameras go when they are left on an airplane (oops!) Thankfully, my parents have a camera, so we've not lost ALL of our memories :-)
Work has been going well for Nicole. I'm getting to know students and staff in all of the classrooms. This is a fantastic school district to work for. I feel completely supported which is awesome as this is a brand new position. I still find it hard to be away from Adalie during the day, but am thankful for the way things are getting busier. We've been having fun working on projects around the house. The garden is set for the fall and we're getting our summer things put away.

After the intense heat of this summer, it was nice to have

some September evenings that were comfortable. Addi's favorite

place to be is outside. She particularly loves flowers and the

neighbor's cat, Spot.

When you say, "Addi, smile," this is

what she does.

"Look mama, I did not eat that leaf."

"But I might eat this one"

"Mama, will you give me that worm?"

"Here spot, do you want it?"

Addi likes to help Grammy when she cooks.

So far, the sink is working well as a work

station.

This is the only picture we have of Adalie's first boat ride. We went to the Columbia (we ususally go to the Snake) to go fishing. It was SOOOO windy and wavy. There were a few moments where I was planning how to swim to the shore towing Addi. We all got a little grumpy - except for Adalie. She loved it.

Last Saturday, we went to Klickers. It's like Lonepine. We took a few pictures, climbed on their giant hay pyramid and got a video of my parents going down the big slide. I would post it here, but.....:-)

More helping

Adalie found the broom and decided to help. She is such a good helper.

She did pretty well and only almost poked our eyes out a few times.

Such a strong girl

Our big October adventure has already happened. I was able to go to the AAMFT (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists) conference in Sacramento. We decided to make it a family trip. Sandy, Adalie and I flew down to Sacramento for the long weekend. We stayed with Sandy's parents and got to see the whole fam (shout out to Dale and Joy). I drove into town each day and was thankful for very manageable traffic. The conference was great and time with family wonderful. Adalie entertained us all. I don't have any pictures of this trip because on the way there, I left our camera under the seat on the plane (just one of those things....but man, it's a bummer). Lindsay and Joy took some pictures, so I'll post them when I steal...I mean get them from snapfish.

Hopefully, we'll be blogging more regularly now ( I know I always say that, but, we'll see). We are so thankful for so many things, but miss those we left in Eugene (and I guess Springfield :-)