September 2017

First Day of School photo for Carter though I'm sure it's probably the second day or third day....lets just call it first week of school photo. Senior year for this one. Don't talk about it or I will start crying. We are just going to live in denial for the entire year and pretend he's not going to grow up and move on with his life. Why would we want him to accomplish the goals we have been reaching for his whole life, that would be madness. Senior year though....why did you have to come so quickly.

This girl and her soccer...she can't get enough! I can't get enough of her...isn't she just delicious. The air in the photo above is pretty hazy due to the crazy amount of fires we have been having around Montana and California and Idaho and Canada....it's been a bad fire year. They even cancelled an Idaho tournament because the air was to bad to exercise in.

After a few games in a row during a tournament weekend she ends up not being able to walk....it's tough on their little bodies....Ally is trying to walk down the sidewalk here and is struggling.

Brandy and Ally running the high five tunnel after their game.

First Day of School for Ally....Penny doesn't want her to go off and leave her all day. I walked her out to her bus the first day so Penny could go out with her.

You can barely see her bus behind her. 

Working on making this house more to our style. Wish I had a bigger budget but spray paint will have to do for now. Shiny brass magically sprayed into a satin black color. Like I said, it'll do.

Jessi's x-ray with all her new hardware. Rough fall for this pup.

Byron and I have been working on a new garden this fall. He is building our raised beds and is doing an awesome job. I can't wait to get things planted in. Sometimes if you knew how hard a project was going to be you wouldn't have started it in the first place. This definitely falls into that category of project though now things are starting to look like a garden and I'm really glad we did launch into this one.

Glacier National Park day....we found the cutest wooden spoon shop at the East Entrance. Oh my goodness...wooden spoons for days.

How beautiful is it in Glacier Park?

Our ward took a temple trip to Cardston and Ally isn't quite old enough yet to participate. I sat outside with her and sketched while the boys got some work done.

Even though Ally didn't get to go in the temple she did get to go to Canada which made her really happy. First trip across the border for this one.

So, I have been painting the interior of the house. It was a light blue and I have been updating it to what they call at Sherwin Williams; woodsmoke. It's a light green olive color. You can see I have the bottom portion of this area painted and I propped the ladder up to see if it would reach the top of the room. It's excessively tall in this room. So, yes the ladder will reach but no I am not brave enough to go up there and move around while painting. I have decided to hire this portion out to a professional.

Ally giving my paint a stir. She has been a good helper while I have been painting.

Smoky fall in Kalispell this year. It is much cooler and summer has definitely shut down due to the smoke in the air.

The sprinkling in the clay is the worst. So dirty! When you finish you have three inches of clay stuck to the bottom of whatever shoes/boots you were wearing. I cannot wait to finish up with the sprinkler work for the garden. We are trying to get all the sprinkler heads pointing away from the garden so we only drip water where we want it and we will have less weed growth in there. That's the theory anyhow. 

Ally working at her braiding skills. It's not easy folks...takes lots of practice to get good at the french braids. She's getting there.

Don't let this sleeping puppy fool you. Penny is trouble with a capitol T.

Football and pep band is a definite sign of fall around here.

Marching with the band is hard! Keep working at it boys!

We have a lot of garages and I decided it was necessary that I paint them all. I can't handle the blue.