We've had a lot of fun this month with friends watching and playing volleyball and football.
We got to go fishing at Mitch and Karen's house in early September. We always catch fish in their ponds and have a lot of laughs and fun together.
We have a resident front porch frog that we have enjoyed watching lately. We call him Mr. Sticky Feet. For a few days and nights in a row he hung out right up around our front porch light. I believe he liked the warmth from the light and and eating the bugs that were attracted to the light.
Sarah rode on the volleyball's team Homecoming parade float on a warm Friday afternoon.
Grandma Sharon came to visit us for a few days. She got to watch Sarah and Phoebe play volleyball, and Silas play football. We also got pedicures, and watched the Colts play their Homecoming football game.
Sarah attended her first Homecoming dance with friends on September 18th. Nanee got to go dress shopping with us in Emporia, where we found three beautiful dresses for Sarah, two long and one short. She picked the short one to wear to this dance. Grandma Sharon ordered Sarah some special matching jewelry to go with her beautiful dress. I fixed her hair that evening before her friends got to our house. When her friends arrived we took a bunch of pictures and then I took the girls to the dance. After the dance, they all went out to eat together at Carlos O Kelley's.
Below, left to right, Alia, Mackenzie, Addie, Kenna, and Sarah.
Silas and I saw this beautiful (almost double) rainbow one morning after dropping Sarah off at school.
Phoebe and I made the poster below for "See You At The Pole", a nation wide event that takes place every year in September. Students, teachers, and parents gather at the flag poles outside of their school buildings before school begins and pray for their friends, schools, government, and our nation.
Eric went with Phoebe to her school that morning.
Sarah met friends at her school that morning.
And, Eric was able to meet Silas and I at his elementary school that morning before school started as well.
I turned 44 on September 22nd. It was a nice birthday, but a little chaotic, beginning at about 5pm that evening, when I got the call that Sarah was a "close contact" at her school and I had to figure out all the ins and outs of our district's "in school quarantine" guidelines. It was confusing and SUCH a HUGE mess. In the midst of trying to wade through the confusing documents from the district and online sign-ups from the district, (which seem to change almost weekly in our district) with a friend, I heard Eric exclaim...as he was looking our our kitchen window, "There are COWS in our yard." WHAT?!?!? For real! Three big heifers had wandered in, so Eric and I went out to round them up and push them back toward the back of our property. Thank goodness they didn't want much to do with us and our rounding-up skills are so fantastic that those ladies followed all of our directions. Later that night, for my birthday, we all enjoyed some delicious cookies from Crumbl Cookies.
HAPPY 44th BIRTHDAY to ME!
The next day Dad and Mom came to town and brought me my favorite homemade cake, a chocolate sheet cake. Yum! Thanks Mom and Dad!
Dad got to go with us to one of Sarah's home volleyball games. And, it was good to spend time with both Mom and Dad at our house that day.
