What a Month!!

Hey people!! Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. It's been kind of ugly around here lately. Our month started out with me having a whopping head cold that knocked me on my butt. I did manage to drag myself out with Dave and Owen Labor Day weekend however, for our annual trip to Hatcher Pass. It was an amazing day and we were thrilled to make it there before they closed the mine down for the season!!! More about that later...our month continued with Owen getting the stomach flu the following Saturday and I followed suit the next Friday after Dave took off hunting for the weekend, of course. Thankfully, Shawn took care of Owen and I Friday night or else we may not have survived!! ;O) To top it all off, my laptop crashed and took with it the last 3 months of photos that I failed to back-up. I was devastated!!! Dave took it in to a computer fix-it place and they were able to recover my hard drive, although, it wasn't worth the cost to try and repair my computer. Therefore, my posts may be farther and fewer between. I have to use Dave's Mac and I am a slow learner. In the meantime, I have no Photoshop to edit the pics either, so what you see is what you get until I master this machine and get the Mac version of Photoshop purchased and installed...I'm already having withdrawals!!! I had no idea how much I used Photoshop!! Of course, in the midst of all the chaos, we made the decision to pull Owen from his current daycare. We may have been a bit rash however as all of the good preschools have waiting lists anywhere from 3 months to 1 year. We were lucky enough to end this week with a phone call letting us know that he will be placed in my first choice school as of November 2nd. Thankfully, Dave's mom is willing to come up and cover us for the next month so Owen doesn't have to transition into a second daycare to tide us over. I am so relieved that it has all fallen into place. Now, just keep your fingers crossed with me that this school is all we are hoping for!!!! If it works out, he can attend kindergarten there and hopefully, the school district will allow him to transition into first grade a year earlier than he would have been allowed otherwise due to his birthday missing the September 1st deadline for enrollment. We'll see though, I have no idea how it will all work out in the long run.

On to the pictures from Hatcher Pass...we could not have asked for a better day!!! Owen was such a pill to begin with, we thought we'd have turn around and go straight home. But, he warmed up to being outside and hiking. We even had to promise ice cream to get him to quit climbing up the hills!! ;O)

See the grassy hill behind Dave and Owen? Owen climbed that entire thing with little to no help, starting with the boulders at the bottom!!! It's hard to see how steep it is, but to give you an idea, Dave had to keep his hand on Owen's back to keep him from falling backwards as Owen literally crawled on all fours to get up that incline. Dave and I didn't really intend to go that far, but Owen was loving it!

We have had the absolute best fall weather I can ever remember this year. It has been amazing blue sunny skies as the leaves slowly change. Usually, fall kind of happens overnight here and within a week, the leaves are completely gone. But, not this year!!! The termination dust did hit our mountain peaks on the first day of fall and it has been creeping down towards us ever since. But, I don't think any of us can complain this year!!! For now, we are enjoying it despite our highs in the mid-40s!! Hope you all are having awesome weather as well. I'll try to post some more of my recovered photos in the near future, don't give up on me!!