Big Helper

This last weekend was a busy one. A cold fount was moving in. We were going to have 4-5 day days of 40ish degree days and the night could get below freezing with some snow. We harvested almost everything from the garden and trimmed the trees. Taydom was a big help. His job was to cut the larger branches and plants down to be burned.
Eric, my brother, and Kacey, brother in law are both fire bugs. I think they even enjoyed them self because they had the fire going really huge sometimes. They may have made Taydom in to a huge firebug too.

HUGE sunflowers

This summer we planted a garden. Needless to say it was not one of our most successful garden, but we did get some lettuces, a few zucchini and cucumbers and HUGE sunflowers. I'm not a sunflower seed eater, I planted a few seeds thinking it would be fun to watch them grow. I can not believe how tall they got. The kid loved the huge leaves and once they bloomed they really got excited. Tonight a huge cold front is coming and so yesterday we harvested most of our garden and sunflowers. We saved some the sunflower heads to dry and roast. I never roasted sunflower seed but we will see how it turns out.

I'm NOT old yet.

A few days ago I had my birthday.

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Work Shop Weekend

We love Home Depot. Every first Saturday of the month they have a kids work shop. We had not gone all summer and the kids had missed it. This last Saturday they made a bean bag toss game. They were so excited to build something again. I was so proud of them. They both did it with very little help. It's fun to watch them hammer and create something. We have to go again next month.

Scout Badges

Over the summer Taydom earned a few scout awards. September's pack meeting he got 3 awards. He got his Outdoor Activity badge, and Leave No Trace badge and his Marble belt loop. He did not want me to take his picture so I had to sneak these.

Airplanes

My brother Eric loves remote control airplanes and helicopters. He has quite a few of them and is always working on them. Taydom love to watch him work on them and program them. Taydom has been asking to go watch Eric fly his plans for a long time. Eric normally takes them to Chatfield to flight them. He meets up with other people and makes a day of it. They need a lot of room to fly. Our schedules have not work out most of the summer and so Eric agreed to take one of his plains to the park one afternoon. Taydom had a blast. The wind was calm and the sky was clear. Perfect afternoon for flying.

Tyson is OLD

August 29th was Tyson birthday. We had a great day as a family. We spent the day hanging out and doing things together as a family that Tyson wanted to do. Recently Tyson had been getting back in to golf. He's always loved it but with life happening somethings get pushed to the side and golf has been that thing for him. At his brother wedding in June Tyson went golfing and had a blast. It is really good to see him get back into it again. It brings him alot of joy and a good stress relief too.
Saturday afternoon we went to a few different golf store. Tyson tried many different clubs and found some we really liked. He decided to combine all his birthday money and get a nice set of used clubs. It was a great deal and it made him so happy to have a nice set of clubs.
Taydom and Vilate are really getting in to it too. Tyson has showed them each how to swing the clubs and they thought it was fun to swing them and hit a ball in to the net too. Of course they have pick up on it and do a great job. I guess I am the only one that's not loving it now. Maybe I will have to try it too.
For Tyson's cake he made a yummy strawberry, raspberry, plum sauce we put over angle food cake with a little low fat whip cream. Tyson also doing Weight Watcher the past few weeks and has lost 35lb. I am so proud of him and did not want wreck is diet, but he had to celibate and have cake on his birthday. The total points of 2 pieces of angle food cake with the sauce and whip cream was only 6 points. Very yummy dessert and well with in his point for the day.
Happy Birthday Bab. I love you.

Visiting Cierra

Monday, August 22 my niece Cierra had emergency surgery. For a few years she suffered from stomach aches. She had been treated for many different things like appendicitis. The pain would come and go so it was hard to tell what it was. Sunday the 21 the pain got so bad my sister and her husband rushed her to the ER and from there they were finally able to determined what was going on. She had a cyst growing and every time it moved it caused pain. Monday morning she had it removed and them tested for cancer. I did not say anything to Taydom and Vilate until after school but they were very worried about her and were wanting to make sure she was alright. After dinner we went to the hospital for short visit. Cierra was happy to see us and Taydom and Vilate were glad to see that she was doing alright.
In the weeks scene we have learned that the cyst is not cancer and she is doing much better.