Dirty dirt merchants

Daddy's away (good for him, not so great for the rest of us) and won't be back until tomorrow night. We are hanging in there, but I didn't quite have the energy to say no to brownie baking/eating. Look at my dirt merchants. Straight into the bathtub with you...








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Fall in the Falls- part one- first day of school!

 It's only taken me since August, but I finally got batteries in the camera and got a bunch of pictures downloaded.  I cannot remember if I posted all of these, but here we go!!!!!!!

This was Vake's first day of school.

 You can tell that he was so excited about having people to hang out with other than his mother- please ignore the attractive dry cleaning bag on the front porch....

 And my sweet little baby Gil, ready to walk his brother down to the school.

 And this, again, could be the most magic thing to us about the entire town- the 90 second commute to school.

Biddy Ball!!!

Vake's experience with soccer was ok.  At the end of the day, it was hard on him to have his father as his coach- he just got too worked up and excited.  Nevertheless, Eric and I asked Vake if he wanted to try "biddy ball" which is basketball for the 3-4 year old set.  Vake was interested in it, so we signed him up.

As we signed him up, there was a place to check if you were interested in coaching or assisting.  I, frankly, am interested in neither but also think that it is very important to support your child's activities.  So I signed up to assist, thinking that there was no way that would happen.

Well, assisting in fact did not happen.  Now I am the HEAD coach for a biddy ball time.  YIKES!!!!  Wow. 

I'll keep you posted.  The good news is that the ball is only 5'6" off the ground.

Small town living!

This is how you know you are small-town living! When the husband gets a full page ad in the paper!


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Yahoo and ptl

Now I can down to the real business of finding a job! Yippee!


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Pumpkin Patch

What a fun weekend we had with Grandmary last weekend! I have great pictures that I need to upload and post from crater lake. We could not have had better weather- truly truly amazing- warm- unseasonably so- and sunny.

After Vake had his soccer game, we went out to a local pumpkin patch- such a pretty pretty drive.


The two boys by the pumpkin patch sign...





Out picking pumpkins.


Vake is getting so so strong.





Sweet little Gil.


And then last Sunday, we carved up our pumpkins.





We are ready for Halloween around here. Vake is going to be (big shocker) James, the red engine from the Thomas series. Poor Gil is going to be his brother's tender. Good times.

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How's it going: Alison's job hunt

Well, about that.  I am now entering hour number two of cold calling lawyers in town.  Talk about depressing.  I think that what probably makes sense now is to send out resumes and see what starts to come back in to me.  Ugh ugh ugh.

Something perfect is going to work out.  Sometimes it just takes some time!!!!