September 2013

Little Quinn has gotten really good on his scooter.  It's so cute to see him 

zooming up and down the driveway.

Parker turned 9 on September 6th!  He was super excited to get a new bike for

his birthday.

He also got some new Legos, a doodling book, a reading 

book, and a piggy bank he could decorate.

He was excited to ride his new bike to school.

For Parker's birthday dinner he chose homemade macaroni and cheese

and roasted cauliflower.  The picture makes it all look so weird, but it was good! :)

For his birthday cake he chose a layered brownie dessert that had chocolate chip

cookie on the bottom, Oreos in the middle, and brownies on the top.  It was yummy!

The day after Parker's birthday we had planned to have his friend

birthday party, but Josh's Autism Carnival for work ended up

falling on the same day.  We decided to just do both and make it work.

We did a booth at the Autism Carnival in the morning, then hurried 

home and got ready for Parker's party.

This year he decided to do a water party.  We debated on whether or not

it would be warm enough, and decided to take the risk.  We found a good

deal on a water slide rental that ended up being fun. 

Parker's friends came and they got to play for maybe an hour and....

It started pouring rain!!  It just wouldn't let up, so we came

inside and he opened his presents.  He wanted Krispy Kreme

doughnuts instead of cupcakes, so we had those too.  I felt

bad that the rain ruined his party, but I think they had a fun time

anyway.

Quinn had some kind of candy that made his tongue blue. :)

We had some corn on the cob, so decided to try a chili lime

version like you can buy at the festivals and fairs.

My birthday was on September 9th.  Josh and the boys picked out some

fun gifts for me. :)

Josh found these cool crab claws to try for my birthday dinner.

He made those along with some Swiss chard from the garden

and some rice.  

There was even a pretty sunset!

My birthday cake was a lemon creme pie that ended up being SO good! 

I usually pick something either cheesecake or chocolate, so this was different, but I loved it.

Just a funny little thing.  One of our tomatoes split open in the garden

It was sitting on the counter next to one of Isaac's Lego heads, so.......

Heheh

We got lots of tomatillos in our garden this year, so we got 

to make some salsa verde - my favorite!

Bryce and Quinn had fun peeling all the tomatillos for us.