Something about school starting means that life just gets busy.
End of summer means canning season in my house. Lots and lots of canning happened this year. Our zucchini plants went crazy! This pile is only a small portion of what we harvested. We ate and ate and froze zukes for days!
August pack meeting brought several belt loops for Billy. I do like that the brothers get in on the pre-meeting games. Tommy is trying to drop marshmallows in to his friend Trevyn’s ice cream cone…
In addition to his belt loops that we worked on this summer, Billy also earned his religion knot!
Sometimes when you are the littlest and you are on errands with mom and you like Batman and you see a Batman umbrella and you ask for it … sometimes the momma says yes!
I must have tasted good during this canning session break. Hunter couldn’t resist a good lick.
Kevin and I try to go out once a week on a date. Some of them are more planned than others. We also try to take a picture of ourselves on each date.
We took our friends Josh and Shelly out to a comedy club as a “we survived school starting” celebration. They also were so helpful when our suburban broke down and we owed them. It was great to get out and laugh and laugh together!
I try to make sure Bobby takes regular naps, but some days it isn’t an option. On those days, he will occasionally take a nap anyway…
Bobby and I went to the Station in Farmington one day. A big playground in the middle of a shopping center? Perfect little boy fun!
After shopping and playing, we met up with Kevin for lunch.
I may have used this picture when I was talking about baseball, but maybe not. It is Rusty with his friends Eli and Peter. I just wanted to make sure it made its way onto the blog …
Tomato Days! I love our town’s heritage celebration.
Billy went early to school for 2 weeks so that he could be in the children’s choir for the Tomato Days Flag Raising ceremony. They sang several patriotic songs including “Fifty Nifty” and Billy got to hold the Alabama sign. You can see the short program HERE.
That was Saturday of the weekend festivities. That night, the city hosts a free dinner, live entertainment, and fireworks. Kevin and I left the boys home and made it our date night!
We visited with some friends we met and then we enjoyed the fireworks …
It’s been years since we saw fireworks without kiddos. I have to admit, it was kind of fun! The boys saw most of them from the driveway at home with Grandmama, so there was no guilt!
Rusty loves dinosaurs. Rusty is adorable. Rusty borrowed his dad’s reading specs to see the tiny pieces.
On Monday of Tomato Days, I ran the school PTA booth at the park.
We sold our school shirts and did hair chalking. The hair chalking got really fun when the teenage boy volunteers starting being creative!
I did miss out on the parade though. I was a bit bummed by that, but my boys weren’t IN the parade this year, so I didn’t mind too much. Kevin took the boys and they sat with our friends the Bucks. The “straight outta hooper” shirts are the ones I was selling. We sold over 300 of them that day alone.
Food, games, sunshine, rodeo … Tomato Days rocks!