Allie was playing in my sisters living room and Heather and I were talking. I looked over at Allie and noticed she has something brown in her hand and was lifting it to her mouth. I realized it was cat poop! I dashed across the room with super mama speed and snatched it out of her hand before she ate it. I have never really liked cats but I am starting to side with Matt even more then I did before. :)

Our good friends Ben and Sarah are leaving for England for the next three years so Ben can finish up school. We are so excited for your journey. Good luck with everything! You have been amazing friends and I envy the people you are going to meet because they will get to spend time with you! My only request is that you at least consider coming back to Portland. I am sure one of the colleges would love to have you Ben! We will be praying for you and all of the exciting things the Lord has in store for you. We will miss you dearly.

My family has a new favorite game. Spoons! It's basically musical chairs played with spoons and cards. You have to be fast! We all experienced injuries over the trip but we had so much fun. Even my dad joined in on the fun. He was faster then us sometimes!

Here we are all shocked that my brothers girlfriend Tiffany ripped a spoon out of my grandmas hand. It was so funny.

Sometimes we had very close calls.

Heather and I were fighting over one spoon so hard I ended up on the ground. but finally I wrestled it out of her hand!

We were laughing so hard we were crying.

This will definitely be on the agenda next year.

While at the beach Brynne's (6) tooth was super loose. She was telling my brother about it and he was telling her about the old string on a door knob trick. Being the fearless little girl that she is she agreed to try it.

After having her step back all the way to the wall. Heather slammed the door and we heard her little excited voice say "It worked!"

For the next few days she had the cutest little lisp.

For Labor Day weekend my family all went to the beach. Something we haven't been able to do since my dad got sick. He was even able to join us! We had a blast but it went by way to quick. As most vacations do. We played lots of games (more on that later), Brynne lost a tooth (more on that later) and spent some fun time on the beach. Here are some fun pictures from the weekend.

September 7th was my big sisters 30th Birthday
Happy Birthday Amanda Hope!