A Warm Fall Weekend

-
We've had unseasonably warm temperatures the last week or so (today is supposed to be 89) and so we tried to take advantage of it this weekend. Friday night we went to a park and let the kids play. There just might be a picture up here from that outing. Saturday we had some errands to run in Nashville, but stopped for an impromptu picnic. I have lots of cute pictures, but as usual not enough time to go through all of them and post, but here are just a couple that tell a little story. :)

Since Camden has long outgrown his little Diego bike, we've been looking for a new one but have balked at big boy bike prices. We lucked out Saturday and made a random stop at a garage sale and found a really nice one (for cheap). He LOVES it.

Saturday night we took the kids to a little country road so they could both ride their new bikes.
101110_1

It started out well.
101110_2
 
  Unfortunately, the new bike has hand brakes, and he's having just a little bit of trouble adjusting. Camden became a little more adventurous and really wanted to ride in circles around us. That didn't go so well, but he wasn't too upset.
101110_3

Until it kept happening. The hand on the head kills me.
101110_4

After about 30 minutes, we finally ended up with this. I can't really say I blame him. I probably wouldn't have lasted as long as he did with so many fall.
101110_5

Fall Break began today and while I'd like to say we're just going to lay around, it's not meant to be. On today's agenda is Project Basement (for Brian) and Project Bedroom DeClutter (for me). I also have a photoshoot this evening that I'm looking forward to. And to offset the fact that it's 89 today and feels like July, I've got a fall candle burning to help us all feel more like Fall Break.

Comments

Elizabeth Frick said…
The bike? Major SCORE!!! Although the pix of Camden so frustrated by it made me so sad :(
Enjoy fall break!
9:12 AM
Joy said…
Oh Camden! I have trouble with the hand brakes too! Keep trying - you'll get it! : )

Good luck and have fun on your photo shoot!

We have warmer temps here too. (Right after I packed up the summer clothes of course.) Jason is not loving the fact I have discovered a Yankee Candle store. You need a scent for every season, right?

Have fun in "Project Clean-ups"! Our "Project Garage" turned into Jason "Project Golf". Whoops. : )
9:53 AM
Brian Lewis said…
I'm not sure which is harder...being the son of a preacher or being the son of a photographer!
5:17 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Scoop

-
Our meeting with Dr. W today was fine. Not encouraging, but fine. I don't know why I expected better news, but I think it's hard not to hope that the bad news you hear is somehow wrong; that they've somehow made a mistake. Basically, the cancer is still the same as prior to chemo. Possibly a little larger, but he said it was hard to tell. He was glad that it had not returned to my bowel or colon (because that was a large part of my initial surgery), and my chest and lungs are still clear (apparently, this is the next place the cancer would go). It does not change my stage of cancer (still 3c), and remission is still a possibility, but he said that it would be very tough to get there.  There are several more drugs that we can try, which is good, but unfortunately they each have a success rate of only 25%. It's a little too early to be considering clinical trials because hospitals who hold the trials like for the patients to have tried the more main-stream drugs firs
Read more

Late Night Ramblings

-
Image
1. Thanks to Andrea for driving me to chemo today. I'm always a little anxious on the way in and the very few times I've had to drive myself, it's been a little lonely coming home. But not today. 2. A fellow chemo patient today thought I was in my 20's. Score.  ("score" would be a term I'm borrowing from Becky ) 3. I did not wear a scarf today to chemo, and all the nurses and doctors did a double take since they didn't recognize me. So wierd. I recognize me with hair, bald, and with a little puppy fluff. 4. Dr. W. is adding Avastin , a new drug which will help prevent cancer cells from growing, to my current Gemzar routine. Good news is that it won't make me feel any worse. Bad news is that in a small percentage of patients it causes severe side effects involving blood clots, kidney failure, ulcers, and holes in your bowel. Good times. 5. I've been instructed to head directly to my primary care doctor for blood pressure medic
Read more

Scenes from the Soccer Field

-
Image
So I may not have apologized yesterday about the number of pictures, but I am definitely going to today. Because  coughcough thirty coughcough just might be excessive. And probably my family will be the only ones who look at all of them. But I don't care. :) By the way, we completely lost and did not even score a goal yet again. Rory tried really, really hard. This team was head and shoulders bigger than we are, way more coordinated than 4 year olds should be and their coach kept their A team in the entire game. Even after scoring some 15 goals. Oh, well. Rory still enjoyed herself. Which way is the goal again? Notice her position in this picture. Notice how she passed the girl next to her? No, I am not competitive at all. Not sure where the other team is. Oh, wait. There they are. See how much bigger they are? You'll notice she almost always runs with her mouth open. Either that or her tongue hang
Read more