Some Random Goodness

In the past little while we have been.......
We ran the Frank Kush 5K at Tempe Town Lakes.
(Lindsay, Syd, Hollin, Summer, Parker, Kanoe, me)
It was a hot October day & I thought it was a hard route...
but it was fun to do it together!

While Auburn & Bryan went out of town, we helped watch their kids.

{#4 kid = Hallee their black cat}
Auburn always talks about how sweet she is... yet she kept HISSING at me.

So I thought I'd get her back by scaring her with this Halloween cat. (same size as her)

THEN, of course I added a BIG ribbon to her neck & she looked so cute.

FALL BREAK consisted of sleepovers & park days & even a day to Scottsdale's Train Park.

That same night the Cummards surprised G-ma & G-pa Cummard by planting LOTS of flowers for them.

Now that Ellie is in school, she wants to do "cool things" like be picked up a few minutes early from school, or have me come to lunch, etc.!! She was begging me to come get her out early, so I bribed her to be extra good- which she was- and I decided to get her out around lunch time one Friday before meeting up with some Riggs cousins.

When I picked her up, I asked her "Do you feel so cool?"..

Ellie smiled & answered "YES!"

I feel like I have been working at the gym (USA GYM) so much lately...

we had our Fall Mini Meet.

I love watching the kids in my program perform, althought it's a bummer that I can hardly watch Ellie perform.

(Ellie was a bit spacey during most of it- we'll have to work on that)

Speaking of my SCHOOL GIRL- Elle loves reading & writing, etc.

One night, I walked in my room to find Ellie pretending to sleep.... and this note on my bed:

Speaking of her love for that...

She told me "Mom, you always write me a note in my lunch, & I never get to make any notes for you". So Elle had me promise to not look at my note until I was eating. I kept my promise & here is what I found at work:

It was really cute!