Good news...

Oh, so last week my sister and her beau got engaged. They've been seeing each other for about a year and I'm happy for them. They're planning a winter wedding (around January.) They've also recently signed on their first home and if all goes well will be able to move in the first of October. I wish them tons of luck and many happy years.

Stoopid Rain

It figures. I arrange for my neighbor to watch Christopher for a couple of hours this morning so I can mow the lawn... AND IT RAINS!!! So now I'll have to do it tomorrow. If I was bagging the clippings I'd just mow it today anyway, but I want to mulch and wet grass does not mulch well. So frustrating.

Later the same day... it stopped raining and I was able to get the lawn mowed. It was terribly muggy and miserable however. Christopher enjoyed playing with Katie (neighbor's almost 4 year old,) and can't wait to go over there again. He got home and fell fast asleep.

BBQ

What meant to be a small gathering this weekend with Gar, Kristie, Rachel, Chris and I turned into quite the large BBQ. This was due to the fact that Rachel invited the neighbors (Aaron and Jennifer), her parents (since it was her dad's birthday) and I invited Aaron and Tioni, oh and it was my father-in-law's birthday (he got a lemon meringue pie).

In the end I'm glad that Gar invited us to have a BBQ (meat meet) at our house, it was a good time. If you missed the party you missed out!

The County Fair

I took Christopher to his first county fair last night. Jennifer, Joel, Grason, Matt, Ashley, Kaitlin, Christopher and I all went together. Christopher loved seeing the animals and was very intently watching everything around him. I got many "What a beautiful baby," comments which made me a proud mama. I didn't bring my camera unfortunately, I suppose it's ok though since most the pictures would have been of Chris in his stroller. I had a turkey leg, corn on the cob and curly fries (the fries and turkey I shared with others... no way I could eat that much myself.) Christopher had a nice cold bottle of mommy milk which he took from me almost no problem, he played with it for the first few minutes and gulped the rest down. I even went down Big Pink (slide) once since Chris was asleep. Hopefully next year Adam will be able to go with us.

Some good news!!

Suzy and Ed are moving back to the Tri-Cities. Suzy landed a teaching job and things are slowly falling in place for them. Good job Suzy!!

My little sister and her boyfriend put in an offer on a house, and it was accepted!! So they should be getting keys in early October.

If anybody else had good things happen, then um... good for you.

Almost a full weekend

Well I almost got a full weekend at home. I spent Friday night and Saturday morning in Denver due to hurricane weather in Houston. I got a lot of work done when I got home though. The video portion of the home theater is installed and working. The matrix is no fun to watch without audio. A lot of rock was moved from the driveway to the backyard, although Rachel wishes I had done more of that, that should get finished this coming weekend.

Chris didn't want to go to bed on Sunday night so he got to stay up late and watch "Black Snake Moan." Turns out that movie was not that great.

Gar and Kristie came over bearing gifts for Rachel from Disneyland. *pout* and Gar social engineered me into having them over to grill this coming weekend.

WAHOO!

This weekend is a special weekend. My customer is going to take Monday off so that means I don't have to fly out on Sunday. I get a whole 2 days at home! Of course I still have to fly out on Monday, but having 2 days is going to feel like a vacation.

Added by Rachel: Needless to say, Adam did not get to come home last night. His first plane was delayed and as he was getting to his gate in Denver they were pulling the plane away from the dock (10 minutes early) causing him not to get home. I'll be picking him up this morning sometime. For all of you who get to be home with your families most of the time, enjoy it because this sucks.