Of Growing Up Too Fast...

September must have been extremely busy because I haven’t had a chance to sit down and actually write what’s been going on! Actually, my work schedule has been miserable. They’ve been penning me in wherever there was an opening because several people have quit. I feel like when I’m home, I’m either sleeping or working non-stop to keep the laundry and dirty dishes from overrunning the household.

In the midst of being perpetually tired, we managed to do some fun things. We took down the old mirror in the bathroom and replaced it with a nicer one. The mirror was seriously stuck to the wall, so it took a big ol’ drywall patch.


We got our backsplash up in the kitchen. One more notch on the way to DONE!!



AJ started school at Garden Heights and LOVES first grade! He is reading more. He brings home a book every night and gets to choose a treasure for every 10 books he reads. So far, we have read nothing but dinosaurs, and it’s great!! I keep thinking one day they’ll run out of dinosaur books for him, but not yet. AJ has officially graduated from speech therapy…yeah!!


Natalie started ballet again. She’s doing well. We’ve almost got her skipping for real!

Brooklin has entered the bumped and bruised baby stage. She insists that she will walk by the time she’s 9 months old, as evidenced by her current abilities of standing with help and climbing stairs. She also grew her first two teeth (the bottom middles) and had her first ear infection this month. Actually it was her first sickness of any kind (she’s never even had a runny nose to this point). We’re just realizing how non-baby friendly our house is.




Joe has been called to the scouts for the same age group as our Sunday School class. To which, Kyle Hirz replied, “Are you serious? Awesome!!”

Joe’s mom, Liz, Liz’s friend Jamie, Dyana, and I spent the second weekend of this month in Seattle and attended a performance of “Wicked” at the Paramount Theatre. The show was FANTASTIC!! Absolutely worth every penny we spent! We drove over on Friday and spent time shopping, reading good books in our nice hotel room, and enjoying all kinds of food that none of us had to cook or clean up after. Despite getting lost in downtown Seattle and nearly missing the show and the blisters I got on my feet from running several blocks trying to get to said show (oh, and who could forget when Brooklin ate so much at the Cheesecake Factory that she literally burst?), we had a great time!!




Joe already gave a pretty full synopsis of his demolition derby racing experience, which he’s still smiling about. Last week, his work sent him to Bozeman, MT, for a mold remediation training. We missed him terribly while he was gone!