September 2012

On September 1st Christian turned 6 years old! On the 2nd we celebrated at the grandparents'. Tammy's display of awesomeness:

Christian's self-designed Avengers cake:

Happy sister and doggie enjoying the festivities:

He got lots of fun presents at my mom & dads including a suitcase,

and Tony's parent's including a Lego Pirates of the Caribbean bedroom set.

September 4th was the first day of school!

Christian's first day of kindergarten was just an hour of introduction to the Chinese immersion program where parents attended, so here's me trying to make the ride home fun. Buddy was way disappointed that he didn't get to ride the bus until the next day.

The 5th was the first day that both kids were away at school and Skiddle-doo was SOOOOO excited to have them home again!!

On Labor day our family had reservations to tour the Brigham City temple, but when we got there we found out that they weren't really requiring reservations and it would be over three hours of waiting in the insane heat for us to get in. We decided to bag it and just head home, but my dad, who had met us there, set up a new reservation for the morning of the 6th. I was sad that the only time Tony could go had been ruined, but the kids and I got up early and had a beautiful tour.

Sorry that there's just random art in the middle here, but when I take it down off the wall and put it into memory box storage, I like to get a picture for my blog book! Here is an awesome lion that Faith painted:

The 15th was Christian's first soccer game! He was so excited that he finally got to play instead of just being on the sidelines.

Here is a vampire that Buddy made out of a balloon later that day:

On the 22nd Faith had a piano recital.

She did a beautiful job and aunt Tam came through with some gorgeous flowers!

September 23rd we went to Lagoon for the first and only time with Tony this year and timed it just right so that we could enjoy Frightmares.

The weather was perfect, we got Christian to go into a haunted house (he's more afraid this year), and we had tons of fun!

September 27th I volunteered to help out with 5th grade splatter paint day. The students were painting pieces of tissue paper that lined the grass, but had even more fun painting themselves and each other!

On the 29th we enjoyed some lunch at the Greek Festival and my dad was kind enough to buy for us. Tony had never been there before, so we had him try a bit of all of our favorites: gyros, tiropitakia (feta cheese pie with flaky pastry), spanikopita (spinach pie), souvlaki, and galaktobourekos (pastry with custard that we affectionately call "galactic burritos").

We drove up into the mountains to enjoy the changing leaves on the 30th. It was windy and we couldn't find many great places to pull over and take family pictures, but the scenery was beautiful. I don't think I've ever seen so many dark red trees!