Life keeps on going

After a lot of thought, I've decided that I'm just going to give a brief play-by-play of the last several months...

Summer Activities (July - September)

Family Family Family

• Ryan's family in town - Mom and Cory came while Cory went to EFY then came back again to take Adam to BYU and for Jason's Wedding. It was great to be able to spend so much time with them.
• Erin's family in town - Lani's family stopped on their way up to Washington for the summer and now the college kids are back in town (Dana, Logan in Provo and Michelle in Idaho)

• Washington road trip - For mom's birthday, we drove up to Washington. We left Saturday around noon, knocked on Robin & Fred's door around 11pm which was also a surprise, then drove the last 3 hours to Seattle Sunday morning and sat down next to mom at church...pretty much the best surprise ever. We spent the week there...Ryan studying, Erin working and family playing with Kherington. We also go to see Min, one of my best friends from High School.

• Moved to Lehi - we've moved in with my dad who is in Utah during the week for work. We appreciate him having us until our next move. It's nice to be able to see him so much and I think Kherington adores him...he can also get her to laugh!

• Jason's wedding - Jason and Tiffany got married in the Salt Lake City temple. They are such a cute couple. We are very excited to have a sister-in-law.

• Denver road trip - we went out to Denver to visit with some of Ryan's family friends from when he lived in Indiana and to go to Jason & Tiffany's reception. Everything went really well AND we stopped in Rawlins not once but twice and didn't lock ourselves out of the car either time...very successful.

Erin

• Back to work - I'm back working at my job. It definitely has it's ups and down. For the most part I enjoy what I do and the people I work with so that's always a good thing.
• Birthday - went and look at king size beds...so comfy
• Company getting bought out - my company announced about a week ago that Adobe will be acquiring it...as of now it sounds like not much will actually change, but I should be able to get some Adobe products for pretty inexpensive.

Ryan

• Took and PASSED all 4 of the CPA exams - he's done! Lots of studying, but he passed them all on the first time around which is very nice both from a studying and pocket book perspective
• De-junking - gone though box after box of our stuff and throws stuff away...very much needed
• Watching Kherington - she adores him...if he is ever in the room she turns until she has him in her sight.
• College Basketball - as a reward for passing all the CPA, he bought 2 college basketball magazines
• Birthday - bought our king size bed...it is amazing! We went with the Denver mattress pillow-top and bought the display model which saved us a good 200 bucks.

Kherington

• Sleep - decided sleeping through the night is overrated...Ryan is an angel and gets up with her...I've gotten to the point that unless i am specifically trying to listen to her while I sleep I don't hear her at all.
• Clothes - has a few 'cold weather' clothes but definitely needs more especially if we keep taking her on walks. She's almost grown out of the her 3-6 month clothes so she's actually growing at the average rate.
• Solids - It's started...she doesn't love them, but she sure loves to help...she is however interested in anything we are eating or drinking.
• Formula - moved from Similac Soy to the Kirkland brand (none soy)...way less expensive and she does well with it now (no more constipation like before)
• Movement - is really good at rolling from her back to her stomach, but not so good going stomach to back
• Curiosity - love watching other kids and trying to grab them
• Voice - makes a lot of noise (no more need for the baby monitor b/c she has great lungs). When she gets tired she makes an ah ah ah ah ah ah ah noise then finally conks. She has a real laugh now.
• Loves - outside, love her walks and playing in the grass...she stick her cute pointy tongue out and catches the wind, sucking on anything (including toes), dropping stuff on the ground