Hanging out with friends and BOYfriends???

On Friday we started our fall break from school. We decided to grab some lunch and meet some friends at the park. We met up with my friend Kim, her boys Matthew and Jacob and her daughter, Caitlin. Kim and her family used to live across the street from us. They adopted Caitlin from China after we adopted Lucy. They were so sweet and supportive during our process and they decided, after we returned home from China that they wanted to bring a home a daughter of their own too. I feel a special connection to Miss Caitlin. She is a doll and she and Lucy love each other.

Beautiful, sweet Caitlin

After, our time at the park Olivia asked if she could have a friend come over. I said, "sure" not knowing.....she wanted to invite a boy over.

Let me give you some background....this past summer Olivia had a friend who liked to meet up with her boyfriend at the park. I told Olivia there was no way she was going to meet boys at the park unsupervised and if she wanted to hang-out with a boy, then he would have to come to our house. I had no idea, she would actually take me up on it.

She invited Nick over to the house for a few hours on Friday and I have to say he's a nice, polite boy and they had fun just kicking the soccer ball in the back yard and sitting on the front porch talking.

I had to get a photo. I went outside with my camera and of course, Olivia was mortified. Nick laughed and said I was just like his mom, that she would do the same thing. :)

Nick and Olivia

Hang on...

the week is almost over!

Mountain Weekend

I love fall. I grew up in the midwest and loved all the colors and crunchy leaves beneath my feet. Fall is slowly starting to arrive here, but its already at it's peak in the mountains.

I was able to join some friends this past weekend for a girls getaway and I took these fall photos. It was a fun and relaxing weekend in beautiful Breckenridge.

This was my view Saturday afternoon while drinking wine from a rooftop deck. Aaahhh!

Fancy Lucy

Lucy loves Fancy Nancy. Lucy likes to use the "fancy words" that Fancy Nancy uses. For instance, Lucy will say to me, "I want to dine alfresco tonight." She also loves using the french words that Fancy Nancy uses, "bon-jour and papillion." Lucy is always cracking us up with her love of Fancy Nancy.

My dear friend and neighbor, Xan was shopping on-line a few weeks ago and came across some Fancy Nancy pajamas and she just had to buy them for Lucy. Xan was so excited to give the P.J's to Lucy, she couldn't even wait until Lucy's birthday next month.

Thank you Ms Xan!!! We love our new P.J.'s!!!

Moon Festival

We celebrated Moon Festival last night. The kids have been looking forward to it for weeks. I had plans to order Chinese take-out and afterwards drive to a local park to watch the moon rise.

For weeks, we have had unseasonably hot weather, I would even say an Indian Summer. It's been super dry and no rain for weeks. Well, yesterday afternoon the clouds rolled in and we got rain. I knew there was no way we would be able to see the moon through the cloud cover. I desperately wanted to get a photo like this....

We did enjoy our Chinese take-out and our dessert. Chinese tradition is to have mooncakes. Mooncakes are dense cakes made with lotus or red bean curd....let's just say it's an acquired taste. I had the idea to have moonpies instead. I knew the kids would love them, and they did.

Yummy!!!

Happy Moon Festival!!! Maybe, next year I will get my beautiful moon photo.