MoHawk Baby

The last few weeks I have been busy knitting these adorable MoHawk Baby hats! I cant wait to see what they look like on a real baby! September has been a busy baby birthing month...I have had 1 friend give birth to twin boys, another had a little girl and another had a boy. Very exciting!

Baby Girls can even rock the hawk!!!

Twin Mohawks!

Anyone interested in purchasing hats from me...just let me know!

Team Cascade

This Sunday was the 1st Annual Team Cascade 60/60 Rally. What is this you might ask? Well, its 60 min of movement to 60s music, raising money for people in our community in need. This year the money is all going to one family that we all know. The father was diagnosed with brain cancer (after finding a softball sized tumor in his brain last year) and is undergoing treatment. The Mom works at our elementary school and the one daughter attends the school.
So we all gathered at the high school track for some good community bonding time. I was VERY pleased to see so many people come out for this event. Not to mention so many people I knew!
Caymus went off and played soccer for the entire hour and then some. Lucy tied a jump rope around her waist and tethered herself to me....I was going to walk, but after my first lap around the track was board and decided to run...once I started running I then decided to see if I could run the entire time. I did, and it felt great!!!
After the 60 min, they served up hot dogs and ice cream. All in all a great day, lots of fun for a great cause!

Me~Shawn~Stephanie after the 60!

Tulah rode her bike, Lucy with her tether, and Zoey jogging along.

Not even sure I should claim her...

One of my kids very best friends, Tulah!

My moose....even with dirt on his face he is cute as can be!

The Crew! I love these crazy kids!

You say Tomato, I say Tomato.....either way I have a lot of them!

Yesterday I went out to pick tomatoes from the garden....and I filled these 2 popcorn bowls to the top....actually they are falling out they are so full!!!

Mmmmm dont they look good?

And now I have this many tomatoes!!! I guess I know what I will be doing this weekend....

Any Given Sunday

I finally had a weekend home with no major plans! AWwwwww so I got some stuff done around here!!!
Saturday Bob and I made about 2 gallons of salsa from our Sun-gold Tomatoes. Super good stuff!!! I then went to Home Depot to get flashing and caulking to fix my gutters and roof. Well while I was there I just had to check out their clearance rack of plants! This is a great time of year to get sale perennials! And oh boy did I!!! They had half gallons for $1.50! Score!!!! I got several Black Eyed Susan's, some lavender and a few other flowers. That made my day! Oh and I did get the flashing and caulk.....

 All they needed was some water! I love how cheery they look in the garden.

Who knew a pile of dirt would be a source of entertainment for this boy for hours and hours! Ok well anyone with a 7 year old boy would know that....He has been building jumps for his bmx bike and tracks for his monster trucks out of this left over dirt pile for weeks.

Seeing that there was going to be rain in the forecast I knew I had to get cracking on my gutters....I did put it off all summer after all. I was able to caulk the gutter over my back deck, clean the gutters and some parts of the roof, put in flashing along the front garage and caulk the holes. I am feeling very proud of myself for this job. Home-ownership is awesome and very rewarding!
And it did rain on Monday and guess what....NO WATER ON MY DECK!!!! Yes!!!!! Success!!!!

Love them!

You are looking at the Quarterback for the Red Cardinals......He is a stud. He LOVES football!

The Moose is finally starting to loose his teeth! 2 on the bottom in the last 2 weeks and his top right is about to fall out! I am hoping it does before picture day!!!

I LOVE THIS GIRLS STYLE!!!! She is unique that's for sure!!!

And yes, I encourage her uniqueness!!! Be free, be an individual. THAT's MY GIRL!!!

My Green Thumb!

My GIANT Tomato!!!!

Apparently I have a GREEN Thumb!!! This is the first year I have successfully grown and produced tomatos. I have attempted many, many times and have never gotten them past the green stage. Well not this year!!!!

 My front yard is in full bloom and looking great. The seeds took some time to get going, and not all took, but the ones that did look great! The Marigolds in the front are so pretty, I have been collecting seeds from them to replant next year. And the Cosmos are taller than Lucy and just keep on blooming!

 My mom got me this cute maple when she came down last month. Its just what we were needing to balance out the yard. I Love it!

 And the gourds have taken over! Its so fun to look around at the different ones coming up! We are going to have a very nice display for the Fall/Harvest season.

And now for the tomato's!!!!

This has been a very fun year of gardening. I am very happy with what I was able to grow. I have to date canned 18 pints of zucchini (I am also shredding and freezing it), and 20 pints of tomatos. And many more to go! We have also been making salsa out of the sungold tomatos that Bob and I both have. So So Good!!!

Warrior Dash!!!!

This weekend marked my first ever Warrior Dash.....if you have never heard of this event I would recommend looking it up on line. Its a 3.18 hellish mile course with 14 obstacles. The obstacles include trudging over logs in water up to your neck, crawling over mesh netting, climbing over wrecked cars, running through hanging tires and running over tires on the ground, climbing over many walls, sliding down fireman poles, crawling under barbed wire, leaping over fire and crawling through mud. All of this and hills in between every obstacle. It was hard.
Bob and I headed out Friday night to our camp and met up with some friends of mine from Wrestling.
We spent Saturday morning prepping physically and mentally. Lets also keep in mind that this was the hottest weekend of the summer reaching about 100 deg.
Moms Locked and Loaded was our theme and away we went! Camo paint and all!

 

Micha and I on our way to the dash!

My support! Bob was a great boyfriend and took care of Moka, took photos and waited for me at the finish line! He did say that he is all in for next years Dash!!!

Dont mess with these moms!!!!

 Taking off at the starting gate! This is a huge 2 day event with Waves running every 30 min from 9am-6pm. Each wave can have up to 450 people. I think Saturday there were about 5400 people that ran.

After the Dash! We are Warriors!!!

I felt like I could do anything after that run! Wow what an awesome experience! I LOVED it! Had that same smile on my face the whole time!!!

 

My warrior hat and medal!

 

Warrior Dash....Survived!!!!