September Busy

September is almost gone and it's gone really fast.....  This week we may be getting that turn in the air that signals Autumn.  This is my favorite season since we've been back in the NW and this part of Washington,  though more desert landscape than lush tree covered hills,  doesn't disappoint with crisp cool mornings and evenings with sunny dry days.  The Farmer's Market is also full of apples.  The past three years I've come to count on a beautiful October so lots to look forward to.  Right now it's been warm and we have dirty air from the Eastern Oregon and Wenatchee fires.  Yick. 
Between the two cameras these pic uploaded out of order but my readers are smart and I'm feelin' lazy so here's what we've been up to in no particular order! 

We put the boys in soccer!  It's been a great experience for the boys and they're mostly enjoying it.  Before each game they announce the teams and the kids are supposed to run through a parent tunnel.  We participated the first game but our boys want no part of it.  NO PART AT ALL. 

This is the last year of preschool!  They love their teachers this year,  "They're funny." 

A little team work here. 

They're getting so big.  No babies here!

Aaron's still loves to use his pellet smoker.  Here he his with Tommy and Opie the brisket hound. 

Daddy left us for five days to go to Boston for a proteomics conference....  I desperately wanted to tag along with him but it didn't work out this year.  When I uploaded pictures I found this on the camera..... 

Aaron jumped seats and sat close enough to see and hear the coach get thrown out.  He sat close enough to be seen on TV when a left handed batter was up. 

On Aaron's birthday weekend we took a last minute nearly spontaneous (in our house that means you scour the Internet for hotel deals) overnight trip to Spokane.  Thanks to my facebook friends we had a wonderful and kid friendly dinner at The Spaghetti Factory (we were close otherwise it would have been Tomato Street) and the kids loved this carousel.

Who told Rachel it was a funny face shot?  Who told Ben it wasn't? 

We rode the sky tram over Spokane Falls and with this crew it was anticlimactic.  Oh well, when you're a tourist for the day...

2nd go on the carousel. 

Bedded down for the night.  It was the last weekend for the hotel's outdoor pool and water slide to be open.

Rachel bedded down for the night.