Nate's parents came out for a visit. They brought a few of our things we had been storing at their house and a chain saw to help cut down 3 Russian olive trees in our backyard. We didn't really like the trees, and I am allergic to them, so we decided they would have to go. That was quite a chore, and we appreciated their help with it! While they were here, there was a balloon festival going on downtown so we went to the evening event which was the Balloon Glo. It was kinda cool seeing all the balloons lit up as the sun was just finishing going down. We stayed and wandered around a bit to look at the different balloons. Most were just different patterns and colors, but there was an energizer bunny and a pig.
September 14th, Nate celebrated the big 3-0! I had to tease him a bit about being old, I still have 3 more years until I hit 30. He worked that day, and we celebrated when he came home with dinner and the most awesome black forest cherry cake I have EVER made! Ever. I've tried this cake at least 3 times and failed quite miserably once. It is his favorite though, so I keep at it. When I got it out he asked me if I bought it at the store. We kept things pretty low key on this one, but I think it was a good birthday for him!
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| A little lop sided, yes, but it tasted pretty good! |
Aside from that, September wasn't too eventful for us. Just normal day to day stuff. Here are some pictures from a day Gracen and I made cookies. He loves to cook with me, and after I cleaned everything up, this is where I found him patiently waiting for the cookies to bake...
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| He watched them bake the entire time! |
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| The final result was quite good! One last picture for September... |
Gracen "fishing" from our deck. This boy loves our backyard, he hunts and fishes back there.
One last thing I just remembered...Nate took his last set of boards, and won't have to take any more tests for about 3 1/2 years!! I can't tell you how exciting that was! He had some trouble with the test, something with the pictures not showing up. A problem NBOME was having at all testing sites. It wasn't good, and he was worried about the test a little. He was offered a retake, but didn't want to do it without knowing whether he passed or not. I don't blame him, who would want to sit through another 8 hour test?? We got his score back a few weeks ago and he did better on this one than any other test he's taken. How that works I don't know, but we were pretty excited about it!!
4 comments:
Looks like you guys had fun. Nate looks like he is struggling to keep his eyes open but that is to be expected with his schedule I guess. I remeber at one time hearing Uncle Jim talk about having to take "5 minute power naps" maybe Nate will have to start doing that! So glad you guys closed on your house, now you can finally make it yours.
Balloon festival looks awesome! I love that picture of Gracen watching the cookies bake. Too cute! We sure miss you guys! Sounds like things are going well out there in CO.
Your cake DOES look awesome - I'm so impressed. Now if I could just have some....
And Gracen watching the cookies bake is too cute. I would like one of those as well.
And congrats to Nate on being done with Boards - wahoo!! Can you imagine if he had decided to retake without knowing? Granted, he's crazy smart so it probably wouldn't have mattered either way, but it saved 8 hours!!!
Fun stuff! I love that Gracen watched the cookies bake!
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