September Fun

I can't believe September is almost over. Seriously? The highlight of the month for us was : GETTING GRASS! We laid sod a week ago today. It was back breaking work, literally. I pulled a muscle or something in my back and have been pretty much down all week. Saturday I felt good enough to climb to Timp Caves, and had a good day yesterday too. But the entire week was a wash for me. URGG. I will seriously empathize with people and back pain now. I have never felt so frustrated or helpless. Not to mention that Brian was out of town deer hunting all week too! Sigh. He should be back today sometime, just as my back is finally on the mend! Doesn't the grass look awesome though. It was probably worth it....I'm just not quite to the point of admitting it yet. I'm still bitter :)

This was a team effort for sure!



A view from the side


Sydney enjoying the fruits of her labor!


This was the easier of the back breaking tasks. Lifting the HEAVY pieces of sod is what did me in!


A view from the front. Whew! All done.

We climbed Timp Caves yesterday. I LOVE Timp caves. The hike up is challenging, but not too hard. It is beautiful and peaceful, and inside the caves are really cool. This is the 2nd time this month we have done it...and if it were up to me, we would go every Saturday. I am pretty sure I will not be able to drag Kylie up there again for a while. It is not an easy hike, and she is 13 after all. To say the least, she didn't want to go yesterday. She did go, and ended up having fun, although I don't think she will admit it. Tyson and his new BFF Carter (other than his cousins, of course) practically RAN up the mile and a half STEEP mountain. They were seriously crazy, those boys! Somebody has got to find a way to harness little boys energy and bottle it up! I know I can drag those two up anytime...they loved it as much as I did. They were a little disgusted at how slow the rest of us were though. They said they got tired of "waiting" around for us! I did beat them down the mountain though. I had to go BAD, and so I ran down, which they kept telling me was against the rules. Which it is, but when you gotta go, you gotta go!

Just starting our hike


Break Time!


This is how Kylie felt about the day! LOVE it!


These two are inseperable!


View of the Valley below. If I remember right, this is about half way up. (THe dark haired girl is Syd's friend CJ.


Grandma and the kids inside the cave


The kids and I inside the cave


Brian did get a deer on Friday morning. Maybe it was Saturday...I don't really remember. I just know he has been gone for a long time, and I am ready to have him home! He was disappointed it wasn't a bigger deer, but his Dad still has a tag, so they are hoping to shoot a bigger one before today. Either way, my kitchen is about to become a slaughter house. I do like the jerky once it is all finished, so I won't complain. As long as I don't have to do the butchering, and just the eating.

Jackson, I thought of you often this week, buddy. As I laid in bed for what felt like FOREVER with my injured back, I knew that what you were going through was a LOT harder than what I was going through. And I knew if you had a smile on your face, and were being a trooper (which I knew you were) then so could I. Thanks for being my inspiration. We are praying hard that your mouth sores, nausea, and fatigue are about to be kicked to the curb!

You'll be swinging high again soon buddy! Hang tight!

We are looking forward to a great week with some very exciting visitors! They might be from California. Hooray! We are thrilled to no end! Family pictures are in order too, since it has been like....geesh I don't even know when we took the last ones! Swim team is about to start, the weather is changing, and the stinking deer hunt is ALMOST over! It really is the end of September, isn't it? Bring on those beautiful fall colors.