Mama Jo treated us to the pumpkin village again this year. Look how much they’ve changed since last year.
There is a beautiful glass blown exhibit all around the Arboretum called Chihuly. It is unbelievably awesome…yes, awesome is the best way to describe it.
Thanks again, Mama Jo. Looking forward to next year!
With the cooler temps, we’ve been taking lots of bike rides in the evenings and on Saturday mornings. Here’s some pictures from a ride before the Aggies took the field one Saturday.
WHOOP!
For our last pool party at the Overhill House, we had our refugee friends over. They LOVE to swim! They do not love dogs. We always had to put Broady in the house or they would FREAK. OUT.
I love this picture.
Back in September Hannah and Nathan started going to a little MDO program a couple mornings a week. Hannah was so excited to go back and little Nathan was just happy to be doing what Hannah was doing.
I just want to eat them up.
I (Scott) am writing this post. Jennifer is still way too emotional about the subject. The day we moved out, she stayed behind to clean. I came back to pick her up and she was basically mopping the floors with her tears. Needless to say, it was a rough day for her. (I got permission to share that information).
So, we sold our house at the end of September. This was the first house we ever bought. We lived there 5 1/2 years, and it was the perfect house for our young family but we were quickly outgrowing it.
We had lots of good memories in the house including the following:
Here are a couple of pictures of us the last day in our house.
We will miss our time there but are excited to see what God has in store for us next!
In late spring, my friend and I started toying with the idea of running in a sprint triathlon. We both had wanted to do one for a while but between pregnancies and breastfeeding neither of us had the opportunity! She finally convinced me to get a membership to our local YMCA and the training began. Looking back, this was the main reason I survived all the showings of our house this summer. We pretty much went to the Y everyday, which worked out perfectly since I needed to work-out anyway. The race was a 300 meter swim, 16 mile bike ride, and 3.1 mile run (in that order).
About to jump in the pool.
Running from the pool to the transition area (See my cheering squad behind me? A big thanks to family for coming in to watch me race. I felt like I was in high-school again…it was great).
Getting on my bike.
Time to run.
Coming down the home stretch.
I wish you could have seen me cross the finish line. I was so excited I threw my hands up over my head (picture Rocky) and let out a big, “YES!!” The workers were like, “Here’s your water and medal…next.” It was pretty anti-climatic after all that hard work.
My sweet friend and me after the race.
I had lots of fun training and competing in this race. It felt good to have a goal and work hard to achieve it (which in my case was to just cross the finish line without stopping or passing out).
Some of our neighbors gave us a box of dress-up clothes and we’ve had lots of fun with them. Hannah put this on and announced, “Stand back! Here comes the Queen!”
Nathan didn’t care too much for his outfit. Here is how his dress-up progressed:
At least we have a Queen.
