Ry, Meg, & Cooper: First Half of September

As the months go on I swear this year just flies faster by the month. We enjoyed a few more nights at the fair before it ended and I got my steam vac that I have been wanting for years, I will use it to death.

Cooper started Kindermusik every Thursday until the end of the year starting this month and he absolutely loves it. His bestfriend, Kolton, is in there with him and they are hilarious to watch. We had a housewarming dessert party with both of our families at the beginning of the month, it was fun to see how things flowed with lots of people at our house, and i'll say I loved it. Coop is loving our house and his new room, he runs up and down the halls non-stop and runs with his trucks up and down the hall by his playroom, he also loves to drive his Mater truck up and down the hallway. We are loving our new ward and we fed the missionaries the second week in October; it was an interesting dinner to say the least. When I called them (they were sister missionaries) to see if they had allergies, food preferences etc, they said they were on a low carb diet. Easy enough, so I made fish, spinach balls and salad; while the fish was baking I put the perfectly golden spinach balls in the warming drawer, they turned black and got burned, the fish wasn't cooked all the way so I had to throw it back in, I felt SO bad. And then I tried a brownie recipe I saw on pinterest, that was pumpkin mixed with the brownie mix, bad idea, they were rubbery and horrible, pinterest fail. Ry still hasn't let me live it down and I bet the whole mission will never want to eat at my house again.

We have been doing lots of exploring and having fun evening walks when Ry gets home. We went and found the tree house at the end of our property and a few days later I tried finding it with Lauren and her kids and we ended up wandering around, more like bush whacking, for a good two hours, we were exhausted by the time we were done and still didn't find the tree house. I had Ry show me landmarks so now I know how to get there fast, no more getting lost back there. It is beautiful and I am loving the weather we have been having, we have only had a few cold days where we bundled up and cuddled up inside but for the most part it has been beautiful. We are sad the pool is closed for the summer, Coop is definitely going to miss that. We had some freak storms at the end of August so we had to reschedule the family pics we had scheduled for Wendy's birthday gift to the second weekend in September, and the weather couldn't have been more perfect, the lighting was gorgeous that night.

We had our harvest dinner for our ward and met some more people, they were giving horse rides and Coop was pumped! He kept yelling 'horsey ride" they also had a bounce house for the littles and Coop had a blast.