This week we had a mix of rain and sunshine but I feel like the heat has been on the decline. Yesterday (Saturday) it was in the 80s but I think that will be the last we see of that kind of warm. So we tried to do things in the sunshine this week.
One of the things we did was work in the garden. Sadly, our pumpkin plant got blight so we had to pull it out and harvest our two pumpkins. One is very green but Elsy wants to eat the orange one. I think its fun that she wants to eat it instead of carve it because she only knows that we eat what we grown in our garden and can't remember last Halloween. I love her hot, rosy cheeks in this picture. She just got new rain boots and was tramping all around in them. I was pretty proud of her for figuring out how to put them on by herself.
In other news we got a new table! Thanks Logan and Cameron for spending forever putting it all together. World Market was having a big sale and I just fell in love with this table. Sadly I spent all the money I was saving for over a year for a new couch to get it. :*( But Logan said a bigger table is a better investment right now because we have plenty of room on the couches (even though they are nasty green) but we never had room at the table to have people over for dinner. Our old table only seated four and with Logan and I, plus Elsy in a booster seat that left room for one guest.
I absolutely love it! I ended up re-arranging it the next morning to have only two chairs on each side and then one on each end to make it look less crowded. Now I am super excited to have the missionaries over for dinner tomorrow.
First meal/breakfast at the new table! Elsy has been having parfaits for breakfast every morning for like a month. She loves "parssays".
So as many of you may know Saturday was the National Day of Service. Our ward put on a carnival at an old folks home and it was so much fun! Elsy loved telling everyone "I'm two 'n a half!" and was very talkative. She had fun licking her sucker and learned to play croquet.
Tom was on his best behavior as well. He has become Logan's best little buddy lately. Every time he sees his daddy he flaps his arms and growls in excitement (all forms of communication for Tom are a growl they just have different levels of intensity for happiness, sadness, anger, distress, etc.) Tommy will hear Logan come home from work and stop what he is doing and just look for Logan. He also will get sad when Logan walks away from him. It is just the sweetest.
Later that afternoon we decided to have our last hurrah for summers end. We went to Idylwood park and Elsy swam in Lake Sammamish with Logan wadding along behind. Elsy is fearless when it comes to the water... which is why Logan had to trail so close and make a quick dive for her when she fell head first into some boat waves.
Tom got to eat all the sand he wanted again. He is proving to be 100% less dainty than Elsy ever was.
We ended our summer's end outing with a trip to Panera. Elsy was not cooperating for taking a picture. She never does actually which is frustrating. Panera has become a family favorite of ours and maybe we go there more than we should. After the kids went to bed Logan and I ended our evening with a double feature of a Top Gear special. It was a good week I think!
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