September 6 - The Melting Pot

 

Me & Bryan got to go on an awesome date tonight!  Mindy tended the kids (thank you a million times) while we went to The Melting Pot for the first time!  We were gone for 4.5 hours and had a great time together!

 

First course was one of the loves of my life - cheese!  Cheese & apples, cheese & bread, cheese & chips.  I mean.  No words.  Delicious.  My favorite course by far. 

 

Then came salad & meat.  Good, sure.  But not as good as the cheese.

 

Then one of Bryan's loves of his life - chocolate!  And all things sugar to dip. 

 

It was the perfect night together.  We laughed & visited & just were - - together.  It's been a long time.  It barely felt like 30 minutes and all the sudden we'd been gone for 4 hours.  I just love him so much.  And I know he feels the same.  And that's pretty great.

September 5 - All Ready

 

All ready for the day!  I pulled my phone out to text Bryan back & Haze posed.  So I had to take a picture.  I mean.  How cute.

September 4 - Rocket Ship

 

Andlie drew a picture of everything we needed to make a rocket ship this morning. 

 

Picture Description by Andlie (L to R): Bag, cash register, paper, scissors (shaped like a heart), 3 pieces of tape, a cutting line, 3 more pieces of tape, money & stickers (the dots), the rocket, more money & stickers, Andlie & Merida playing catch, Haze playing catch.

 

Don't worry, we made the rocket ship!  What a fun imagination!

September 3 - Monster

 

With Andlie in preschool now, me & Haze have spent some time shopping together lately!  Today we stopped at Costco where I helped him try on this monster jacket & then told him to make a monster face.  What a funny boy!

September 2 - Labor Day

 

After we enjoyed the Labor Day parade (and got way too much candy), we had lunch with Grama & Grampa and then headed home.  What a fun trip we had in Panaca! 

 

Noteworthy: Haze sung the ABC song from start to finish all by himself for the first time in the car on this trip!

September 1 - Panaca Fun

 

Today we woke up & went to church with Grampa and then we headed out to the Spring!  Haze did the usual - gathered rocks in his bucket & tossed them in to the water!  Each time exclaiming, "Did you see that?!"  He also saw an "izard" and even touched it!  "I don like it, izard."  He also saw "two adybugs fyin to their homes!"

 

Andlie totally had a ball catching little fishies with her net!  Daddy was right by her, but she caught all nine of them all by herself!  That girl wasn't afraid of the water or catching the fish or putting them in the bucket!  We kept them fed today with sour cream & onion Pringles. 

 

Before we headed out for the night, I got some birthday presents and sung to and then we all ate red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting & blueberry frozen yogurt - yummy!!

 

Tonight we went to the re-scheduled light parade with Grama, Grampa, Paul, Jenny, and Beau.  Then we saw some awesome fireworks!  Though it was raining the entire time and we all came home wet & muddy, it was another fabulous day together!

August 31 - Rained In

 

We arrived at Panaca today!  We spent most of the day inside because there was a gigantic lightning/thunder storm outside!  Haze & Andlie ran around in the rain with Grampa Puppy a couple of times and we enjoyed listening to the "under" (as Haze puts it) and watching the rain & lightning!

 

Tonight, we tried to go to the Light Parade in Pioche, but it was cancelled due to the rain.  It was a fun day visiting & hanging out at Grama & Grampa Puppy's house!