Community Service and a Party

On Sept. 22, our ward was doing a community service project in soccer and baseball fields that are across the street from our Chapel.  We love to have our kids do service for others, so we always take the opportunity to contribute when there is a service project going on. 

 

 That same day, Pete's group at work had a party.  So, we headed across the river and downtown to a park and ate lunch and enjoyed the beautiful weather while chatting with all the fun people that Pete works with and their families.

Our Garden

Our garden produced lots of yummy and BIG veggies this summer!

One last outing...

Before school starts!  On September 4, we headed out to our favorite place on the coast, Pacific City and Tillamook.  We first stopped at the Cheese factory and watched the making cheese then we ate some samples, Yum!  And of course we couldn't leave the factory without getting an ice cream cone full of yummy Tillamook ice cream.

 

 

Then we went on to Pacific City and drove out on the beach like we normally do, not noticing that no one else except four wheel drive vehicles were on the beach.  There was a reason for this, the sand was super soft and not packed down at all like it usually is when we go out there.  We got Stuck!  And I mean really stuck!  We had people trying to dig us out, pull us out, push us out and everyone gave up when the van's wheels just dug in deeper except Pete.  He was determined to dig us out, we had a nice couple who stayed and the husband got under the van with Pete to dig and the wife kept me company as I tried to keep the baby occupied.  She was so nice and really enjoyed talking to her.  She is from Australia and met her husband there when he was visiting.  She fell in love and came back with him to the states and married him.  I was so anxious about the van, it was nice to just chat with her and keep my mind off the van and Pete digging it out.  Well, after probably a half an hour of digging they finally got it out of the crater it was in.  Hallelujah!  I was so relieved!  So grateful to our super nice friends who helped us out.

The rest of the time we were able to relax and just enjoy being on the beach and enjoying the beautiful scenery.  The kids love to dig in the sand and play in the waves.  My boys always want to climb the huge sand dune.  I love the Northwest.

We found this lot up for sale on our way home and man if we had the money I would have bought it in a heartbeat!

First Day of School

September 5, was the first day of school.  This year Brandon is in Middle school in sixth grade, Kenyon is in fifth grade, Shaylee is in second grade and Jaron is in Kindergarten.  Kenyon's teachers are Mrs. Tendler and Mr. Nadal, Shaylee's are Mrs. McNutt and Mrs. Dana, and Jaron has Ms. Price.  Jaron's teacher has been all four of my kids' kindergarten teacher and I really like her, so I was very happy when he got her as a teacher.  This is the first year I didn't walk Brandon to school and it was very sad and hard for me to just let him walk off with his friends.  I did it, though and I lived through it.  This was a hard year for me having my oldest go to middle school and my baby boy go to kindergarten.  There were many tears from this mom, but I lived through it and my kids all had a great first day of school.  They came home to peanut butter cookies, their favorite.

 

 

Kenyon with his teacher Mrs. Tendler

Shaylee in her classroom

Jaron in his kinder classroom

I always make my munchkins peanut butter cookies on the first day of school

I had to take some pics of Maycee when the other kids were in school

Happy Birthday, Pete!

For Pete's birthday, he wanted to take the whole family to his favorite Middle Eastern restaurant, Nikolaus.  Most of the kids really liked it.  Jaron, Maycee and Kenyon all like hummus and we got a middle eastern pizza for the kids to eat.  It was yummy and a fun way to celebrate his birthday.  He had a donut cake and it was yummy.  Happy Birthday, Pete!

Eating hummus

Enjoying Nikolaus

Birthday Cake