200th Post and about 200 things to blog about!!!

Wow, I have a lot to catch up on! Things have been crazy + busy around here. Here's the "short version" of what we've been up too, loaded with lots of pics from our last couple of weeks...and it's my 200th post!!!

These two cute little girls have fun playing on Monday's when we have the privilege of keeping Kylie while her mommy teaches
We met our Seattle heart friends, the Cunningham's, at Mar Don for a playdate...Kate and Maddie had some muddy fun! I also made the trip over to Seattle a couple of weeks ago to spend the day with Angie and Natalie, our very first roommates and heart friends. They're from Alaska and Natalie was down having a surgery, her g-tube removed. It was so great catching up with Angie, even if we had to sit all afternoon in the surgical waiting room! Natalie did awesome and I loved getting to see her in action! She's a busy little bee :) Blogs and carepages just don't do these kids justice. Sorry no picture.
Cade and Maddie have been really enjoying each other with big brother away all day...I've been so proud of Cade and how he's stepped up to the plate as my helper and the "bestest" big brother!

A little Labor Day camp-out in the backyard...More marshmallows were burnt to a crisp than eaten. As far as the tent went, at 3 am I'd had enough of it and drug the boys in the house for a good nights rest. Bryan and Maddie opted out of sleeping in the tent and had a great nights rest.These two sure have loads of fun all day but are super excited when Jace gets home...these faces say it all when they see that big yellow school bus pull-up
The first week of school, this is how he spent his bus ride home...asleep. Being a Kindergartner is hard work!
We've been enjoying lots of yummy tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, peppers and squash from our first official garden.
Here's some of the produce. Maddie, Cade and I spent that afternoon canning tomatoes at Nany's. We also had 4 visitors just show up in our shop (the wildest one is hiding from the camera). Needless to say, I'm a sucker for strays and we now have a total of 6 cats. They all stay outside btw. Maddie is especially loving these new "itties". Caden started his first day of preschool. He's loving having his own thing to do. I think someone else thinks she's ready for Mrs. Becky's too! And due to a lovely and very painful "liver attacking" virus I had that presented itself exactly like gallstones, our plans for Bryan's birthday and fun weekend in Seattle for the Seahawk game were cancelled. Instead, we spent much of our time in the hospital. So glad it was me and not one of the kids. Luckily we have a couple more games this season and with fingers-crossed, we'll be able to get away for one and finally celebrate my man's birthday. He definitely deserves it.