Our Labor Day Trip to Steve and Melissa's

Here's our trip to Bakersfield to visit Steve, Melissa, and kids. It was a very fun Labor Day Weekend filled with swimming, soccer games, karaoke, Summer's birthday party, and eating yummy food. Thanks for such a wonderful trip Steve and Melissa.

Of course we had In-N-Out Burger on the way home.

Summer's 9th Birthday Party with Friends

Summer's 9th Birthday Party with her school and church friends at our house. It was a lot of fun. I am so glad that we decided on a 2 hour birthday party, instead of a sleep over. We were all exhausted after just 2 hours. It was a lot of fun though. Such sweet girls that Summer has for friends!

Summer's family birthday party

Summer got to celebrate her actual birthday with cousins in Bakersfield. Rachel and Lauren enjoyed decorating Summer with the beautiful new flower hair accessories they gave her. What a special birthday to spend with family. Thanks Steve and Melissa.

Grandpa Spendlove

Grandpa Spendlove had a heart-attack a few weeks ago. Stuart and I were able to visit him in the hospital, while Rebecca watched our kids (have to be 16 or older to visit). We had such a wonderful visit. He looked so wonderful and was in such good spirits. He had a beautiful smile on his face when I gave him a hug. We were so grateful that we live so close to be able to see him. We are so grateful for the tender care that Grandma Spendlove, Sarah, Rebecca, and Steve have given him. He is home now and recovering.

The kids made him a Get Well Banner as shown at the top. Summer has shed a lot of tears over Grandpa in the hospital. She loves her Grandpa and has been very worried about him. I think this helped her.

Spencer's future career

I was helping Spencer with his "All About Me Poster/Report" today. One of the questions was what do you want to be when you grow up? He usually says a scientist, but today he surprised me.

He said, "Ya know those people that dress up at Disneyland and wave."

"Um costume characters."

"Yes."

"Who do you want to be."

"Mickey Mouse."

So there ya have it; Spencer wants to be Mickey Mouse when he grows up. I tried to have him write "Mickey Mouse costume character at Disneyland" so that it would make sense, but he insisted that that was too long and just wrote Mickey Mouse.