Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Fall Fun

Here is a brief synopsis of our fall 2008. Besides the normal routine of raking leaves and trick or treating, we were able to throw in a few other adventures along the way. First was a trip to the ER (again). Though it was scary and I have never felt that sick in my entire life, the final consensus is that I am allergic to shellfish and shrimp. Yikes! Who knew. I have eaten some shellfish and shrimp off and on throughout my life with no problems. I guess now it is a problem. No more California Rolls for me!
The other part of our early fall were projects around our house. Dave and our great friends and neighbors (Matt Romberg and Brian Walker) put in a sprinkler system in the front yard. Yipee! No more flood irrigation pipes on the lawn. Though we will have to throw down some grass seed and install a timer, the hard stuff is done. Thanks so much Matt and Brian.
We also painted our living room (thanks to inspiration from Sara) and moved our washer and dryer out of the kitchen. We have many more projects that we would like to do, but for now we are just paying off some of the new appliances we had to get upon our return to Boise(funny how everything goes out at once). Hopefully a kitchen floor update will be in the works this spring.
We took a nice trip to Yellowstone (and Craters of the Moon) at the beginning of October when the boys had a few days off from school. It was beautiful with all the leaves changing. We saw tons of elk and bison along with a few deer, a coyote and some other small critters. We also had the bonus of running into our friends the Battens at Old Faithful and enjoyed an evening with them at our condo.
Grayson turned seven and he requested a small celebration at Pojo's with our neighbor boys Jake and Isaac. Pizza, brownies and 100s of tickets from the games at Pojo's were all any seven year old boy could ever want.
In addition we finished up soccer and the boys and Dave started Tae Kwon Do through the city. I think we raked up between 15-20 bags of leaves this fall and we could probably fill up one more. I forgot how many leaves our big old trees shed this time of year. Jack dressed up as Darth Vader and Grayson was Annikan Skywalker for Halloween. Of course we have more candy then we could ever possibly eat but they had a blast trick or treating in our neighborhood.
It was nice to be back in our "routine" here in Boise!

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