{September 2011}

We started out the month with a couple

days of much needed rain. With the rain

came cool lightning/thunders storms, cooler weather

and beautiful rainbows!

 

The cooler weather left just as fast as the rain did.

But the kids were happy to be able to play outside

once again. Addie has become quite the little

collector lately. Her biggest collections

are snails and pine cones. This keeps

her and Trey busy most days looking

for more snails and pine cones to add to her collections!

She even finds little "treasures" along the way like

be-bees from a pellet gun, golf balls, birds nests, etc.

It's been fun to watch Trey and Addie

explore their little world!

 

We also celebrated Tylers 29th Birthday

this month! Yay for 29! We had a great time

celebrating his birthday weekend up at

the Pinto Cabin with his family.

 

September didn't even think twice about cooling

off this year. Which meant more time for

the pool! Hooray! One Saturday afternoon

after getting my hair done I came back to find this

clever contraption that Tyler had made for Trey

and Addie. Only during, "Daddy and the Kids time"

could this happen! These kids are so lucky to have

such a fun Dad who will conjure up a pool slide

for them out of a latter, hose, 8 foot serving table,

and scrap pieces of the pool cover!!

 

September also brought the

Dixie Roundup Rodeo!

This was a must-go-to event while we

are living here in St.George. Addie and Trey

had the best time watching the riders and their

horses circling the arena while waiting for the

rodeo events to begin. The highlight of the night

for Addie was getting an actual autographed

picture of the Rodeo queen by the queen herself!!

She thought the rodeo queens and princesses were

so pretty! Trey even got one too! I'm pretty sure that

wasn't the highlight of his night though!

He was actually pretty fascinated with the typical

rodeo events like the bull riding, and calf roping!

 

And guess who learned how to ride their bike

without training wheels this month??

Another afternoon with Daddy well spent!

Way to go Addie!! I think watching his sister

become so successful at riding her bike, Trey

also found the motivation to actually ride/pedal

his bike (with training wheels)!! Now they enjoy the new found joy

of riding bikes together!!!

And last but not least we finished off the month

getting dirty in the mud!

These are my little Mud Monsters!

Originally, the kids got in their suits to run through the

big sprinklers out on the golf course behind

our house, but instead found this squishy mud made

from those sprinklers. And boy did they

ever have fun with it! They spent a good hour +

playing in that mud. Building mud pies,

slip and sliding, lotioning each other with mud,

running their feet and hands through it, etc!

Good bye September! Thanks for all the successes,

good memories, hot weather, and fun times!