September Tid Bits

 After the mayhem of August, the universe gave us a bit of a break in September. 

For one precious week, Trader Joes carried an ice cream version of their fabulous maple leaf cookies and they were amazing! A woman overheard Gita and I going nuts over them and grabbed some for herself.

They had some really beautiful fall flowers too!

Among the things we found in going through my parents stuff was this plate I made for my mom for Mother's Day. Honestly I don't remember my mom ever having fresh flowers much. She would do a little teacup with a pansy now and again but she just wasn't into big bouquets for some reason. So it's kind of funny I drew her this image of a clean kitchen table, looking out of a sliding glass door on the backyard, with fresh flowers. Then I realized it was an image of peace I had in my own head that I've been able to make a reality. I saw a quote that said You grow into the woman your younger self would run to for protection. And that was like the warmest hug I could ever receive.

There was a shaved ice truck at one of Gita's cross country meet and can we all agree- when it comes to shaved ice, there's really only one flavor?

At Parent's Night I was treated to this page Ireland made about herself for ???

For a hot second Sydney was worried she broke her arm when she ???

False alarm! She was fine (phew!)

Beautiful sunlight on a drive to school.

Another fall bouquet.

Gita wanted to show off the pumpkin cookies she crafted so when I took the picture I said, "Smile!"

"No Gita, SMILE!"

"REALLY SMILE!!!"

LOL- even looking back on those makes me laugh. I love busting her chops! Gita also made these 6 7 cookies because, why not?

With a job secured, I indulged on these Clueless outfits for the AG dolls.

The new job comes with a gym so we let go of our membership. I'll miss my morning swims, but I'm excited to move on to new things!

I decided I needed a pedicure and went for a shade that coordinated with my Birkenstocks. I really loved how this looked! Birkenstocks can look a little hippie but this made them look rather polished (pun!). 

When we were in Utah, Gita was running around a pool and slipped. She fell and smacked her teeth on the pavement and her tooth felt a bit loose for a while. I'm pretty sure her braces held that thing in place until it healed but the bracket had to be replaced.

Good as new!

Brent and I both decided to wear ties to Stake Conference. Oh man- I got so many looks over this! I with I had a pin so I could make it more lopsided and interesting. I think I'm going to wear ties more often!

Ireland rocked this 80's look for HoCo spirit week. You can't lose with hot pink and denim, right?