A little bit of this....A little bit of that....

My friend Lori was in town from Colorado a couple weeks back. We were able to meet up for lunch at Taco Time (they don't have TT in Colorado). It was so good to see her and get the chance to catch up. Ella went with me and she had not had a nap all day so the experience with her was not so great. It was great to see you Lori!!

I hate the blackberry bushes surrounding our house nine months out of the year, and the other three I love them. We have made a few blackberry cobblers and I have learned to appreciate these big sticker bushes (kind of). Ella went outside with Cirdan one night to pick some berries for a cobbler. She was right up there with the thorns and it didn't t bother her one bit.

We started the summer off by going to Chuck E Cheese with Stacey and Casey so we thought it was only appropriate to end the summer off with the way it was started (that and I happened to see the coupon in the newspaper ads)! Casey wasn't walking when we went in June but this time he was able to walk around and enjoy the toys more. Kaiya had fun gathering up as many tickets as she could find.

Ella was trying to get out of the little kid section to go be where Kaiya was playing. Good thing she was unsuccessful.

GOODBYE SUMMER....