Labor Day

Nate finally had a day off, completely. He didn't have to go into work for a few hours in the morning or anything. It was so nice! We didn't want to waist his freedom so we knew we had to do something. It had been raining the night before and earlier in the morning so we were somewhat limited to what we could do. We decided to go for a hike at a park close to our house that we had never been to. It said it had a boardwalk path so we figured we would be good with the mud factor. Well the boardwalk path was only the first 20 feet or so. However, we went on a mile and a half little hike anyways. The girls started out walking, but then it got way too muddy with hills up and down. It was so beautiful even though you had to watch every step to not slip and fall. Nate caught a toad for the girls to see and Bristol even held it. 3/4 of the way through Bristol was done with the bumpy wagon ride and the big hills and kept whining the rest of the way about how she wanted to get out of the forest. However, when all was said and done we had a great time. Now I still need to hose off the wagon because it is still caked with mud.

Cincinnati Reds

So Nate is working in Cincinnati this month and will be gone for most of the month. So we figured if we wanted to see him we would travel to him. The doctor he works with has Cincinnati Reds tickets and gave Nate four of them. Before we left Nate was thinking that we were still in San Francisco and was trying to insist that we needed blankets and jackets galore. I tried to remind him that we were in Ohio and it was not going to get freezing cold with wind whipping through. He still insisted on bringing a blanket. (I have to say the last SF Giants game we went to was in August a few years ago and it was freezing! We were on the top level and the wind was flying through.) When we left it was 70*, no need for the blanket. The girls had a great time. Kali just liked climbing around and Bristol liked learning about the game and cheering the team on.

What Mom?

Whenever Kali plays with the Potato Head she always puts the glasses on her face. It cracks me up. She will just sit there the whole time she is playing with it with the glasses (always held on by her little cheeks) on. I would think it would be hard to see what she was doing, but apparently not.

Some Changes

So I have been doing some changes lately to the girls' room. One major one that Bristol was so happy about was that we bought her a new mattress. She was sleeping in her toddler bed before and was outgrowing it. So I found a sale last Monday for 60% of mattresses and packed the girls in the car and went shopping. We only got the mattress because eventually we are going to get bunk beds for them and you don't need a box spring for bunk beds. So for now she is sleeping close to the floor. We also painted her name pink to match the new curtains I made.

Here are the new curtains. It is kind of hard to see the pattern, but I think they are pretty cute. I gave Bristol two options of fabric to pick out and she picked this one.

This is a painting I did the other night for their room. It will be one of three that will be in a line. I took one of designs from the fabric of the curtains and blew it up in size to paint. I will show you more pictures when I finish the other two. I was hoping for a bigger size canvas, but they only sell 12"x12" as the biggest square size. I probably could have shopped else where but had a coupon and didn't want to spend too much. So when I have them all done you will have to tell me if they look like little postage stamps on a wall. I also figure when we get the bunk bed I will have to rearrange the pictures and there will be less wall space.

You can click here to see their room before.

Butterfly Festival

So last week there was a butterfly festival at one of the gorgeous parks here by our house. Lora you would love the park. So we thought we would go and check it out. They have a greenhouse for all sorts of butterflies. We waited in line and took our turn to walk through. However, supposedly in two weeks all the monarchs will have just hatched and there will be tons in there. So we are planning a trip back then. We saw a lot of caterpillars so I am thinking that must be the case. The girls loved the butterflies and it was all free, so you can't really beat that. We did wait in line for about an hour for Bristol to get her arm airbrushed with a butterfly. It was pretty ridiculous but she was happy about it.





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Fun in the Rain

So this was a little over a week ago. Nate was on his way home from work and they had a blast getting soaking wet running in the rain. They love just running up and down our driveway even when it is not raining. I am not sure why it is such a great activity, but whatever keeps them happy.

Happy Birthday Nate!

Yesterday was Nate's birthday. He unfortunately had to work long hours and had some extra seminar thing in the evening. However, we managed to have him open his presents, sing to him, and eat cake. Well what more can you ask for.

Bristol loves to bake, so she of course was asking me all day long when we were going to make Nate's cake. Finally, when Kali was down for a nap we made the cake. However, with baking, Bristol is just like her father in that she loves eating the batter, dough or whatever it might be.So you can barely see in the background the baking pans with batter in them. So right after these pictures were taken Nate called me and I had to talk to him in the other room because my phone was charging. Well as I jokingly told him I should better go because Bristol was probably drinking the batter from the pan, I go into the kitchen and she had a spoon in the pans and was spooning the batter into her mouth. Do I know my kid or what.

Singing Happy Birthday. Instead of thirty one candles we opted for the three and one.