Well fall is quickly approaching and summer just flew right on past. It's been a busy but fun few months for us. We did take a trip to Idaho for a couple weeks in August to visit family there. Dan's youngest brother left for a mission to Lansing, Michigan so it was a great opportunity to get all of Dan's family members together. It's very rare...in fact, nobody even remembers the last time it happened....maybe when all 10 kids were still living at home. Who knows. It was great and fun to see all the siblings together. We had good visits with both sides of our families and the kids were a little sad to have to leave all their fun cousins and come home. We did get a family picture while we were there but it was early Sunday morning and all our kids were grumpy (as you'll see) and determined to not smile. My nose is all swollen because my allergies were horrendous the whole time we were in Idaho. I forgot how bad my allergies get there.
Isaac and Dan have done a lot of fishing this summer, they've searched high and low for good spots. They haven't been super successful but did manage to catch a couple fish. We did find one place that is kind of far away with a lot of fish and went with Dan's friend from work and his family. We caught a few fish, nothing super impressive but it was fun. Dan is going to start salmon fishing with a guy from work who claims to know all the good spots on the rivers. We might need to invest in a freezer for the garage for all the big salmon he thinks he's going to be catching. Dan loves to fish and after working 60 plus hours a week, it's a good hobby to help him relax a little on the weekends.
Isaac started Kindergarten again this year...he didn't finish last year with all the moving around but he sure has a great teacher and is really loving it this year. He also is riding the bus which he LOVES! The other day he missed the bus because my doctor appointment ran late so I had to take him straight to school...boy was he mad at me. He is learning a lot and it's been fun to hear about his little experiences. He's such a social bug and makes friends so easily. I hope Audrey will be ok when she starts school next year. She is so shy that I do worry about her friend making skills. She is going to speech therapy once a week now and also rides the bus to that. She is brave, I think seeing Isaac ride the bus motivated her to do it too. She looks forward to her class but from what her teacher says, she doesn't really talk with the other kids so much...especially the boys. She just really shy but she does work really hard and do everything the teacher asks so that is good. She is learning how to write her name and we're working on her letters. She loves to color and still loves any and everything purple and tinkerbell.
Adriana is hitting the terrible two's a little early. She'll be two next month but definitely beginning to get more stubborn and throw little tantrums. We do have to watch her because if she gets mad at Isaac or Audrey, she'll charge them with her mouth open and try to bite them. It's not too often but we try to nip it in the bud when it happens. She is a lot of fun and keeps us all laughing. The other night, Isaac and Audrey were already in bed when she came up the stairs for bed. She shares a room with Audrey. She ran up the stairs way a head of me calling out Isaac and Audrey's name the whole time, then ran in, climbed up on Audrey's toddler bed and gave sleeping Audrey a big kiss on the lips. Audrey just rolled over and I tried to hurry and grab her off before she woke her up. She's quite the affectionate little thing. She is very clinggy to me though and I have a feeling she will have a hard time adjusting to her new baby sister in a couple months. She definitely doesn't like to share me.
As for me, we are starting to get ready for baby number 4 and girl number 3. We still don't have a name picked out but hopefully one will just come to us some day. I'm still feeling pretty good as long as I don't overdo it. My c-section is scheduled for the 30th of December at 7:30 a.m. My doctor is great, he's a stake president in Beaverton actually and a really nice guy. This will be our final child as my scar has been pretty thin with the last two. I will be on semi bed rest the last month (basically no lifting, bending or carrying heavy things...like my 2 year old). My sister Anne is coming out for a week the beginning of December with her two little girls to help out, then mom and dad will drive out about the middle of December and plan to stay as long as they need to, probably through the first week of January. Mom is coming in a couple weeks for 5 days to visit because she had a voucher she needed to use by November. It will be fun to have visitors. Maybe it will motivate us to finish these last few little projects. Ha! I'm going to try to be better at posting as I want to sort of us it like a journal since I'm so bad a keeping a journal. Dan is doing well but working like a dog. His project has been quite stressful the last couple weeks and he's had to put in a lot of hours at work and then work from home too. Last night he didn't get home until 10:00 and he had gotten up for work at 4 a.m.! Yuck! That is life in the industry sometimes. I know he's really impressed his boss here and those he works with as he is such a hard, dedicated worker. Hopefully things will slow down a bit for him in the next couple weeks. He does plan to take some vacation days here and there over the next couple months as he has a few stored up for this year. I know I'll need him in December some between when my family comes to visit. Anyways, I'm off to get on with my day. I'll try to be better at updating this.
