Good bye summer

The month of August has always been busy for us. It starts with our anniversary the end of July, then there's quite a few birthdays during August (mine and Casey's included), we have our annual river trip (which didn't happen this year due to different reasons, but we'll resume the tradition next year), and this year we had concerts, a reunion, parties, get together with friends, and the ongoing projects with the house. As we head into the labor day weekend, Carlee will turn 10 months old (double digits!!!), kids get ready to return to school, Fall TV shows will start up again, and football season begins!! Here is a little recap from our last week of August:

Our backyard is pretty much done. We had dirt, dirt and more dirt before all the grass. It was all weeds when we bought the house. The yard is the reason we bought the house and we're excited to have grass that our daughter can play on. (As she gets older of course. She's not going to be going out there to kick the soccer ball anytime soon!)

Casey's 10 year high school reunion. Its been 10 years since these guys played football together. 10 years since Casey got voted "Best Eyes". (That still makes me laugh). 10 years since taking psychology together, since the baseball team, since prom...but you get these guys together and its as if it had been 10 minutes!

Carlee about to eat sand. We had hung out at Newport for the day with Uncle D and his friends.

Then we had a "photo shoot" for Royal Ruckus this past week also. Brooklyn did it the prior week as well. The baby clothes weren't ready until this past week. Carlee and Brooklyn did very well. The pictures I took were of them messing around. The photographer, Marlo Yoshimoto, took some great pictures.

Another mom took this picture from 2 weeks ago. All three girls were adorable!

This is an ANTM pose if I've every seen one!!

I tried to get a picture of the clothing and this was in between everything that was going on. I can't believe I only got a few pictures the entire time I was there.