Pine Cone

Redge took his first few nights away from us for some meetings (and golf of course). He went to Pine Hurst, which is rated number 1 in the US. Significant for all of you golfers! Anyway, he was enjoying his round of golf and was teeing up when the group behind him hit a golf ball into the tree above him. He looked up to see what was going on... low and behold he was wacked in the face with a pine cone! He thought he had broke his nose because of all the blood that was sputtering everywhere! His new nickname at work is now 'pine cone'.

Watch out for those pine cones!

Time

I can tell we are getting more settled. I am actually getting things on my walls and I haven't taken the time to post more on the blog. I am getting caught up on all the little things associated with moving so now I am sitting here thinking about 'what is next'. It is nice to have a minute to catch up. I added a bunch to my journal (haven't done that for a while.) I am going to go through baby clothes and make sure they are clean and ready. I have the crib ready. Hmmm just need to go to the hospital now and figure out where I actually need to go. Isn't it funny what things you worry about! Now, if I can just get caught up on finishing Eli's scrapbook, then I am set for having accomplished the things I don't necessarily take the time to do.

We are getting excited to have Mom and Dad come out for a week in October. They have booked their tickets and will be here after the baby (I am thinking positively for delivery before my due date! :) Ha! It is only 2 days!) The kids keep asking when Grandpa is coming. I think they are anxious for someone familiar in their new surroundings. I am so grateful they would take time from their vacation to come and help us!
We are still enjoying warm weather. I keep waiting for it to cool down. I know that Idaho is getting it's beautiful fall weather right now. Maybe I will get mine in October or November?

I thought it was interesting how many mushrooms liked our yard (this was only half of them). I hadn't watered for a while either! Maybe this is part of the humidity?
I cut Eli's hair on Sunday and he wanted his picture taken. He was being a pretty good sport about getting it cut so we were doing everything to keep up this good attitude! After school he will reach the point that he is ready for dinner. He comes in asking if he can have candy or whatever is visible and readily available. Usually I am in the process of dinner and so I try and hold him off. Then we get to the point that I HAVE to get him doing something or he is going to burst! So, he will be setting things out on the table for me and will come back in and say 'what else, Mom?' It is so fun to have him be big enough to help but also for him to know he can help if he wants something too!

It is fun doing his little homework assignments with him. Right now he is working on words that start with specific letters the teacher asks of him. For example, he is working on D and T. So we are either drawing a picture or clipping and pasting the 'd' word in a notebook and then labeling it. It is fun to see him try and form his letters. We didn't work on d'nealian handwriting and so this is a little more frustrating for him but he is so careful about how he writes. He will get it. I think when they figure out what words start with specific letters is when they really start developing their reading skills and even speaking skills. Eli struggles a bit with his j's that sound like d's but I remember Megan struggled with her r's and once she started with the sounds of letters in school, this seemed to not be as pronounced.
I need to brag on Rhett and Megan. Sunday they both fasted all day. I know when I was their age, I wasn't so tough! We have early church now and they both came home from church expecting to eat, oh boy. I thought I was in for it. So, we told them we like to wait until at least 3:00. Then we reminded them they were used to eating after church got out at 4:00. We were trying to make them feel like they were getting it easy by having early church. Well, I laid down for a nap. Redge didn't know what I was doing for dinner and didn't want to disturb me. They didn't end up eating until 5:00! I know I didn't do this at their age! Pretty cool kids I have!

Tropical Storm Hanna

Yup, we survived it...it ended up just being a tropical storm...although several parts of the city were flooded and power was out, we had some fun setting up our swing set and watching the rain poor down! Warm rain, I might add!!

Moving pictures

I am going to back up and put on a few pictures from our move.

Grandma and Grandpa Olsen came to say goodbye. We are going to miss being near them!!

Our last look at the house.

The kids in the car with the cat. oh the cat!

Funny

I thought you might enjoy this comment from Megan last night. We were trying to get our rental cars back to the airport, our cars finally showed up yesterday. (whew!!) So, they are a little wired because it is 9:30 at night and Megan pipes up "So mom, which way is Washington DC?" So we point North (As far as we can tell is north, right!). Then she askes "Which way is the ocean?" Again pointing the direction we think is to the east. "So, when I am in bed I am laying upside down then." I guess she felt her bed was pointing to the south, thus, making her head be in a down position. I got a chuckle out of that one. You wouldn't believe then the conversation about where China was!!

House

I thought I would show a few pictures of the house - this is obviously before all of our stuff got here. This is the front formal dining room. Our table doesn't fit in the 'breakfast' room. So we put a desk in the breakfast room instead (how many people have two rooms to eat in, anyway!)

This is looking from the dining room through the kitchen and 'breakfast nook.'

This is standing at the front door looking into the living room.