Finishing up Summer

Claire

On Friday, her school had a grandparent's day where visitors could come during lunch for the students but since we don't have any here in town we didn't go. When I picked her up she told me she was sad that we didn't come to her school and it made me feel bad...luckily we planned to go visit so I could tell that's why. We went to visit Blackfoot so Chris and I could do our final race in the series in Pocatello and the girls played at their grandparent's house. We had a nice day with the girls playing and playing even though they didn't get to see any cousins, we had a meal with family before coming back home. 

Shay

I feel like I have more things to say about her now that I spend all day with her and Claire is gone at school. We borrowed an Encanto CD from the library and have been listening to it in the car when we drive places. One time when we were going to the store she asked me "Mom, why don't we talk about Bruno" and I've been obsessed with it because it's so darn cute. She roped Claire into it on our drive home from Blackfoot and they would say things about Bruno and giggle when I told them to stop talking about him. Shay is also very interested in helping me with things nowadays and will help me cook, clean, and measure stuff when I am planning a DIY project. 

Holiday

When we first moved in, we got a grill from someone who was moving away that Chris knows so we've been able to use it several times. We had a yummy kabob as our first experiment a while ago and we've used it a few times and this past Labor Day we did some steak! Chris got pretty grill lines and it was so juicy and delicious and now we are never going back to cooking it any other way. I wish we did more fun things when we have days off of school and work but we are kind of bad at planning beforehand and ended up trying to figure out what we wanted to do. It feels like we are finally creeping into Fall with the temperatures in the morning being so cold and we got some weather early in the week. I saw a few leaves on our tree turning color and I wore my hoodie from the race series and decided I'm ready for colder weather.