Last WONDERFUL Fling!

I just cannot believe that it is SEPTEMBER!!! Where has this summer gone! It is going to be Christmas before I know it and then it will be 2009!!!!

Every year, except for one, for the past 12 years, we have gone to Oklahoma to visit my grandparents. My grandfather passed away in 2004 and my grandmother fell and broke her hip yearly last year and is now in an assisted living facility, but we have still made the trip. This year we did not. There were a lot of reasons, but the end result was that we decided to stay in Kentucky. I hated not going, so I wanted to stay busy..........and boy did I!

Saturday, we got ourselves all up and dressed and out of the house. We ran some errands that we hadn't had time to do during the week, we went to the Farmer's Market and got a lot of fresh veggies, we went scavenging at a warehouse store for some new but incredibly cheap goodies, we spent some time with my brother-in-law, had a good lunch and did grocery shopping. The plan was to go home, eat a little dinner, watch a movie with Emmaline and call it a night. Only I had this stupid little sinus headache that turned into a big migraine. So I ended up in bed by 6:00 p.m. I got up for a little while to see Emma before she went to bed and then I drugged myself up and went back to bed. I will say, that I felt much better in the morning and I actually felt well-rested :-)

Sunday, we went to church and then lunch with the family and ran home to change our clothes, pack up our swimming stuff, some food for dinner and off we went to our favorite swimming spot. It was just the 3 of us and we had a WONDERFUL time. We swam and played for a few hours and then I went in and fixed dinner and we had a 'picnic' out by the pool.

Emma had a great time splashing, making noise, floating (she called it swimming) around the pool and attacking her daddy.

Emma was kind enough to give me kisses through out the day.

This is one of my favorite pictures of the day. It was just us and I managed to get it on camera...all of us actually looking at the camera and smiling.

I went out to gather up the last of Emma's things while she was in the bath and this is what I found when I got outside....a beautiful sunset. Thank you Lord!

Monday the plan was for the whole family to join us at the pool and Steven wanted to fix everybody dinner. He made some Paella. It was really good, but it was a lot of work. I only got two swim for a short while and then I felt guilty, so I went in to help him. It was another WONDERFUL day to spend with the family. The only picture I took on Monday was of Steven's Paella. I was too busy running around to even think to take any pictures. I really need to get better about taking pictures of our family when we are all together!

Steven's yummy meal!