September

One morning Emma took her diaper off and was running around and it struck me as really funny because she has the sweetest tan line so to see her WHITE bootie runnin around was just awesome.

First day of preschool this year!

There are 4 kids in our mom co-op preschool this year and we decided that this year the moms would each take a month to teach and then get 3 months off. So I volunteered to teach the month of September and kick the year off. It was so fun to see the kids back together. They are the sweetest kids.

 After snack time and before reading time it's "relaxing time".

Show-and-Tell

On Friday mornings we go to Mainly Music class with friends.

At our friends house who have fun toys

Josh's church friends Brogan and Kaiden (Kaiden's birthday party).

They really know how to relax (Movie Night).

Brandon went to Utah for 5 days (UVA was playing BYU there) so we went on a few adventures, one was going to Short Pump mall.

And fell asleep on the ride home (totally after bedtime, we party hard.)

The pool is closed but it was still in the 90s so we got out the kiddie pool and Crazy Spider that shoots water all over the place.

Here's Brandon in Utah with my sisters (jealous!). 

Brandon designed a really clever t-shirt he was going to make everyone there in Utah wear to the UVA/BYU game but no t-shirt company would make it since all college logos, slogans, words, etc. are copyrighted. In case explanation is needed... BYU made a tshirt that says "Loyal Strong and True" with the "Y" logo on it so Brandon took a spin off of it ("wahoo" is a term describing a UVA student):

We surprised Brandon at the airport Monday morning after his red-eye flight from Utah with balloons and Chick-fil-A breakfast burritos. Then we spent the morning with him before he had to go to work the rest of the day :-/. Boy did we miss him while he was gone. When Emma first saw him she grabbed his neck, laid her head on his shoulder, and wouldn't let go for about 10 minutes.

Preschool "Dress-up Tea Party". It was so fun. The kids LOVED it.

I love when I happened to catch cute moments like this on camera.

Aunt Polly sent us goodies from Hawaii (where she was all summer). Emma LOOOVES her hula outfit.

We have a tradition where we make a cake on my dad's birthday and Skype with him to sing happy birthday, blow out candles together at the same time, and eat birthday cake with him. It's such a fun tradition. How awesome that we can celebrate together even though we live 1000 miles away.