September 2015

September 1st was Christian's actual birthday, and because he was sad that he had to wake up early for school, I made him special breakfast of egg in the nest & bacon!

I even checked him out of school to take him to lunch. Betcha couldn't have guessed where he chose!

Our sweet home teacher, brother Decker, brought him a gift of gummy CTRs.

And even though we already had his fancy birthday cake that he decorated, Tony brought home a Dairy Queen ice cream cake for that night. It's especially awesome that they're half off on Tuesdays!

 

On the 4th we went up to the condo. Christian had fun playing in the MagicMesh screen door.

Went to Swiss Days early with the kids, mom and dad, and Joy. We looked through the booths and Christian found this awesome to whirly ball illusion art and a whistle that sounds like a bird.

He outboard fairly early on and dad was nice enough to sit out with him and eat giant scones, then take him back to the condo.

Faith got sunglasses from mom, earrings from Joy, and the school necklace which contains a real moth wing. We love the boots that had all of the insect jewelry!

 Mom got me some awesome sunglasses, as well :)

That afternoon we went to swim in the crater with Joy's family and dad.

So cool!

 

Later we stopped by Arby's for some dinner,

 

then more swimming!

On the 5th the kids went on an early walk with grandpa.

Joy and Jordon went to Swiss days, but Tony, the kids and I, and dad went to the sheepdog trials in Soldier Hollow.

We got to see a wild animal show. We got to pet a skunk

and a hedgehog,

a heat big rabbit,

and we even paid for Buddy to hang out with a fox!

We also saw the frisbee dog show.

  It was actually much more fun than I even expected. We were all very impressed with the skill of the cattle dogs!

That evening we ate dinner at Ruby Tuesday's.

Christian loves it when Jordon tortures him!

August 7th we had Mickey waffles just for fun :)

Eric texted me this rad pic of him in Paris.

Saw this quote on Facebook and loved it ❤️

Christian soccer game on the 12th.

August 13th Chelsea was married to Brian (Laz) 💕

 

 

Grandma and grandpa Braegger

Tyler & Zachary

Tammy, grandma & Tina

first dance

 

Daddy's dance

  Gorgeous couple!

Because it had been so long past his birthday, Christian couldn't wait any longer for presents at grandma Peterson's!

Another cool picture from Eric's European vacation

 

On the 14th we volunteered to clean our church building. Faith didn't love it so much, but Christian was really into it!

I thought the kids deserved a Slurpee break after that.

On the 16th we got to be instructed by high fitness at love 2 dance for our Riot class. It was a really fun aerobic dance workout!

The 17th was "mismatched" day at school as part of red ribbon week. Puerto Rico hat, Santa shirt, swimsuit shorts, one shoe and one flip-flop certainly fit the bill 😂

September 20th our ward split again for maybe the sixth time since we've lived here? We have always been part of the Kaysville sixth Ward except last split, they renamed the sixth Ward Havenwood ward. This time we were split out into the Wellington ward.

Actually a fairly logical ward boundary geographically, but we were surprised that we were left with so many people, still a huge primary and a giant nursery!

The other shocker is that there wasn't any room in a building near us. We already practically passed four churches to get to the stake center where we were meeting, but our new building is in another stake and another city! It's all the way up in Fruit Heights near the corner of 200 N. and Highway 89 😳

The thing that really rubbed me wrong is that, even though that there was only one church in that building and they had had the prime 9 AM timeslot for the last several years, our bishop or stake president offered to take the 1 to 4 timeslot, and not even change in January like most other wards, so we have to be in that time until 2017!!!!! I, of course send off some kind, thoughtful texts to those I know ;)

The 23rd was crazy sock day, so Christian borrowed Faith's St. Patrick's Day kneehighs.

The 24th was the final day of the Kaysville farmers market, so Faith and I took a trip there with our Skittle while Christian was at the stake Cub Scout carnival.

 

On the 26th I finally finished slicing our two boxes of peaches. This year we really flubbed it up and waited too long and there were hardly any available, so we had to pay a higher price 😡

Loved this meme from Facebook:

Finally on September 27th, we had a cake for Christian at my mom and dads. He had been wanting to try the super chocolatey cake we had seen at Cosco. It was way too chocolatey with too much frosting!