We had an awesome September. It was quiet time at home, but we spent lots of time with friends. We had a park playdate, went to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, went to the Bellevue Farmers Market, and played Mini Golf. September is also the time that the Birth Center does their annual Reunion picnic. We love going and catching up with the midwives who delivered Edward and Morgan. It is a fun time of laughter, playing, and face painting.
We missed the family reunion weekend this year because Darrell had a conference in Portland the week after so we didn’t want to have to make the boys do the trip twice. So instead, we headed down while Darrell was at his conference and my mom had hung around for the extra couple weeks. The boys had fun. Edward had a rough time with everything that we had going on, but overall they had fun. He got to go toad hunting with Grandma at night and got to spend a bunch of time running around. Morgan spent a lot of his time throwing the ball for Bear.
Darrell had a conference in Portland in early April. The boys and I dropped him off and then headed down to Uncle Kenny’s place for the week. We came back up to Portland on Darrell’s last day and stayed with him at the AirBnB he had booked. It was nice and had a pool that the boys loved swimming in.
Then the next day, we headed over for a day at the Oregon Zoo (we love going to zoos) before heading home. It was a lot of fun and the zoo was amazing. Edward was super excited he got to see elephants since our zoo hasn’t had elephants since he was a year old. Plus, it had a bunch of other animals that our zoo didn’t have that made him excited. They were both super excited for the train ride through the zoo.
Once again, we headed over to the fair for half a day. The boys love seeing the animals and Edward really looks forward to all the rides. Especially now that he is almost tall enough for all of the rides.
The day we went there was also a concert going on. It was $1 more than the entrance fee, so of course I went. Plus, it was some of my favorite artists. It was the Roots and Boots tour with Colin Raye, Sammy Kershaw, and Aaron Tippin. It was a great concert and I took Morgan with me. He loved the show and had fun. It was close to the end before he started losing it, but not unheard of for an almost 2 year old to get fidgety after over 2 hours in one spot. Darrell and Edward came and joined us for the last couple songs.
Busy Busy is the name of our summers. We finished the last month of summer the way we always do. Super busy..
We did blueberry picking:
The ducks are almost 3 months old and Darrell had to add some gravel to make the pool drainage easier:
We had lots of fun overall with playdates and with swim lessons:
We also did the Space Elevator competition at the Museum of Flight. Darrell was asked to be a judge again, so we all went as a family:
