Summer...sigh

Summer is officially over. Barrett is back in school as of yesterday. I was thinking today how I should've taken a picture of his first day of his last year!!! 28 years old - 5 years old when he started - 2 for a mission = 21 years in school. This is our last year! I hope we can make it:)

Barrett finished his last day of work on Wednesday, where he ended up missing the bus home and had to wait an hour and a half until the next one. What a way to end!Thursday we headed up to Philly to go to IKEA and to campus. We had a yummy 99 cent breakfast and shopped for a few Damon items, then headed over to Drexel. Damon fell asleep in the car which made our buying books excursion pretty nice. We walked through Penn's campus to go to the place where Barrett could buy his train pass. A couple hundred dollars later, Damon woke up:) We showed him the fountain and anticipated him plunging right in, but he was a little afraid, so we headed home to get a little rest.

We picked Kim up that night from the train station. Damon immediately started showing off in the car--he sure is the entertainer. Friday we decided to take a trip down to the beach. Barrett had to work on some assignments for class on Monday, so the rest of us hung out, then went to the grocery store to stock up on yummy beach snacks. We thought leaving after lunch would make for a perfect drive, since Damon should take a nap. Well, we were wrong! He screamed and whined the whole way--10 minutes before we got to the beach, he was snoring away. We loved being at the warm Delaware beach. Diggs finally got used to the sand and water and birds and by the end of the day, was running down the beach leaving little footprints. Kim and I forgot our cameras and were a little bummed. We stopped at the GAP outlet so Barrett could get some school clothes--he ended up with a pair of jeans.

Saturday was another busy day. We drove down to the temple and Kim was willing to babysit. Poor girl. I'm sure she was ready for her Damon time to be over, even though we sure love our Kim time. We dropped her off at the Metro station and made our way home. Sleep finally caught up with Damon and he slept the whole way home!! We saw a sign on the freeway that said all lanes were closed due to an accident, so we went a different, longer route. We made the connection that the last time Barrett was on 695, he was driving out here to start school just about the exact time 4 years ago. Oh how much has changed:) We had a fun last hurrah before the stresses of school and church callings and a new baby creep into our lives. Good bye Summer!

Two to Five and now to Three

Well, another few weeks have come and gone, getting us closer to the end of summer and the beginning of school. Barrett had a great time in Canada with the Scouts the last week in July, while Damon and I tried to keep ourselves busy with pool time, playing with friends, going to the library, and discovering McDonald's play place:) Barrett's grandma passed away that week and all the funeral arrangements were planned and carried out before he was even back in Delaware. We were lucky enough to have Barrett's parents here the first week of August. They flew out the day after the funeral to get Grandpa here for meetings and Grandma here for playing:) Damon LOVED having special friends to be at his every beckon call. I enjoyed not having to provide this kind of attention myself, especially after the week before being the sole attention provider! Grandma Ro brought lots of fun gifts for Damon, one being a little Elmo doll. It was love at first sight. It has been fun watching Damon and "Ah-mo" eat fishy crackers, brush teeth, brush hair/fur, and being clutched around the house. We were able to take the in-laws down to Dover to look at the beautiful State buildings and where Barrett will be earning his first paycheck after he graduates. Barrett and his dad were able to fix our speaker/stereo problems in our car and now we can listen to music again!! Damon loves to call it "dance!" and makes sure we have music on that he likes--car rides have been a world of difference since we got the music back and working:) We were able to visit the Herrs Potato chip factory again and loved eating fresh chips. Grandpa finally got to enjoy Woodside Farms ice cream and definitely approved! We enjoyed our visitors and it was sad to have them go, but they'll be back again for more meetings (lucky for us that the meetings keep happening on the east coast!). Now it is back to our little family and we're trying to get things back to normal...although we'll have to adjust again next week when Barrett starts back at school for the last year!!!!
Now on to pictures...

Damon "mix"ing cookies with mom:)

The door handle was just the right size for Diggy boy.

Damon helped Grandpa "mix" biscuits--notice him patting the dough and the flour all over him!

Watching the thunderstorm.

Damon ran into the kitchen one morning to show me he had put his shoes on by himself! He was so proud--it was too cute!

Oh Baby!

Well, the news is out and it is official!! A little one is heading our way the end of December!! We don't know if Damon will get a little brother or sister. We had an ultrasound today, but the baby is breach at the moment and there was no way we were going to find out the gender. It took forever for the tech to get me any recognizable pictures and finally at the end we were successful! I'm assuming I'm going to have a house full of boys, but maybe since the baby was trying to be so modest and cover up, it might be a girl. Who knows and we don't really care...we get to have another little baby:)