Love September

September 2011

Love was in the air.

As guests of a wedding, our table had a pair of its own love birds- 43 years in! Holla!

Uncle Adam & Auntie Ky

Nate & Bros. 

Oh, love all around.

Lily getting some love from Erin. Oh yeah!

Okay... moving on.

September loves Raider pooch!

Our friends were dog sitting. Apparently, the always dress the dog up and torment the doggy mama with a photo sent via smart phone.

Wouldn't "while the dog was away the cat shall play" work here? Oh, I guess not.

Any who, friends came-a-calling and asked the borrow some of Fisher's baby Raider gear. One baby beanie, onesie and a garden gnome (hey- when did you guys get the garden gnome by the way?!?!?) later here is the pooch. We happen to think this is the best the poor pup has ever looked.

Funny thing is when the black went off the pup was dyed pink (Kool-Aid and not harmed).... so what does that tell ya?

Abbigail's First day of 10th grade!!

Sophomore Year.

September 6, 2011

 (My apologies, for putting the pooch before the kid- I am going in date order, not in order of our heart!)

First morning of school. She would not pose outside the doors like I have Fisher do. Nooooo, she was afraid people might see Mom take her picture. LAME.

On school campus, during her registration.

Go Wolf Pack!

Behind Abbi: Its not a wild bore but looks like one. hehe. It's a wolf. Gooo Wolf Pack!

Oh and this is the "Momma stop taking pictures!" face.

Fisher had his 3 year Well Baby visit. He was not very happy. Poor Daddy had to take him and Fish did not make it so easy.

Unofficially Fish is about 40 inches tall and 41 lbs and healthy as can be!

So sad.  

Fisher has a new girl cousin!

I think her and I are going to be kindred spirits as baby arrived on MY birthday! Yippee. It's a good date.

Isela Alicia

8lbs 3 ounces, 19 inches long.

September 12, 2011.

Happy birthday to us!

Isela and Tio Nocho and Auntie Misty

A very proud big sister, Lucy!

Then we ran home from the hospital and had mini celebration with the gang! Kim made me a super yummy 4 layer (ohhhh yeah carrot cake)! Of course, after seeing these pictures, and knowing I am another year older, obviously not being photogenic... the last thing I needed was to eat a piece of 4 layer carrot cake. Oh well... so much for ego.

Speaking of ego- or absence thereof, the next day Nate picked up a special order Mango Tart. This is not only beautiful but it is divine heaven to the pallet. It is made by request and it was the one thing I asked for, for my birthday. If ever in Del Mar- you must have a slice! Amazing! And yes, since I did not see these photos in advance, I ate the whole thing (practically) guilt free!

How often does one pose with food? Yeah, it's that good.  Laugh all you want.

The day after my birthday was Ryan's! So many birthday's! So many cakes! Kim had another one to make. Crazy chocolate, brownie, fudge mountain of  cake.

Happy birthday Ryan!

My favorite- Ryan you look like Harry Potter. That's exactly the picture you want on your 17th birthday!  

 Parenting at its finest...

Since we seem to kill all living flowers, we decided to go with the succulents. Fisher was very excited to help plant the pots.

... and then he helped Daddy mow! He was a shadow!

I came across Fisher playing doctor with Abbi. I guess he decided to be on the other end of a visit, since his appointment. He appears to have it down; he gets hurts enough to know the drill.

No internal bleeding... your heart sounds fine... No fever...

Just ice it.

Longest 10 to 12 minutes EVER!

We made cookies for having a good first month of preschool. When I walked in the kitchen I could see  that Fisher had pulled up a chair to watch (or guard- not sure which) his cookies bake. It was the first time he helped make cookies, heck I haven't even made cookies in the last 3 years, so he was a bit excited.

 

Good thing they did not have raisins!

Nate and Sawyer bonding. Babies love their Uncle Nate. He's very interesting/ goofy/ scary.

Kissing Cousins? Hmmm...

We went to Nick and Delia's to visit baby Isela. Lucy and Fisher were in the house being very quiet... which is never a good sign. We found them giggling under the covers in the bedroom... laughing and red faced.

Isela.

Sawyer.

The new parents. They only look slightly tired, not bad!