Septiembre, September, Beginning of fall, beginning of flu season....

Here we are, at the end of September. It's been an eventful and fun month for our family. One of my sisters moved in w/ us, another came to visit, my bro moved into a diff. house, Cowboy Kenny came to visit, Frank and I attended a luau, D's soccer season started, and both kids and I got the flu (or flooe, according to Angel). I'll let the photos tell the story...
Sean's new house is right on historic Route 66!
My sis moved in and proceeded to convince me to diet w/ her and start walking in the mornings. Our morning walks are beautiful...even though we've only actually gone a couple times.This LO was done w/ French Quarter by Julie.ItIs.
She is also a very talented duct tape artist. Here's a wallet she made for Hubby. :) The first Friday of each month, we like to go to the Mystery Hour, our local late-night talk show. The guests this month were Cowboy Kenny Bartram and Yakov. We hung out w/ Kenny most of the afternoon before the show. The kids had a lot of fun w/ him. :) The next day, we went to a luau, hosted by some good friends. Our weather this month has been absolutely gorgeous, and I've had the opportunity to take many outdoor/nature shots. This is my fav. creature shot this month: I've also become a little fanatic about spiders this month. They always show up around this time of year all around the house. Watching them make their webs is just fascinating. Here are a couple pics I got:

We've been working hard on the house this past month. We got the master bedroom floor down, and moved the headboard in: Did you all remember "talk like a pirate day"? Here's D helping my sis get ready to go out that eve. I was happy to have my other sis and her 2 kids come visit last week. We went to the park and let the 6 cousins and 4 of us siblings visit for a while. Have you heard of cake pops? They're so rich and yummy - and now they're at 1984 (my son's fav place in the world). I had to take a pic of these Pac-Man cake pops. I had to eat one, too - this was the day before the flu hit - hard! I was in bed for a couple days w/ the flu, and the day I got up, Angel came down w/ it. Hubby took D to play his first soccer game of the season. I was sorry to miss it! They were happy to tell me all about it, though. D apparently made 3 of the team's 4 goals! Yay! By the time he got home, though, he wasn't feeling well, either. That was yesterday. Tomorrow is Monday, and both kids are not well enough to go back to school tomorrow. They are improving, though. By my next post, I hope to be able to report that everyone is healthy!

Good news and .....

maybe not so good news for this post.
Good - I'm actually posting!
Not good - I only posted once in Aug (so you get all my Aug. pics at once!)
Good: School started, and my kids got to ride the bus home for the very first time!
Not good: Apparently 3rd grade does this: to you
Good: we had lots of fun this summer! D got to try out his sailboat - FINALLY! We have had gorgeous weather for playing and taking pics. Even got a new pet!
We celebrated both Grandma Harris and Great Grandma Harris' birthdays. :)

Dance classes started up, and we've been working hard on the house! We're sooooo close to moving in now! Here are the kitchen pics some of you have asked for. Frank and Vivian did an amazing job on the tile backsplash! I absolutely love it!
Bad news: the wall paint (yellow) did not go well w/ the new cabinets, counters and backsplash - so I had to re-paint the wall an off -white, almost greyish color, but now it all looks good together. And...we have a faucet now! Yay!

More good news: I actually made dinner in this kitchen earlier this week!
Not so good: we learned the hard way that the oven isn't working, the dishwasher isn't hooked up right, and the drain under the sink is clogged. :( Hopefully we'll get all that fixed this week.
Well, that's it for now. I hope to post more often than once a month, but since I also hope to be moving in the next week or so, I can't guarantee anything. Bye bye!