Wrapping up the Summer

When you only get about 4 good months of really warm weather, you try to soak up every last minute of them! And that is what we did this summer. Here are some more fun memories we made:

We don't get Chick-Fil-a very often here in Vermont, so when a food truck comes to a local church and sets up shop, we make the trip! There were at least 100 people in line, and we got there early enough to be at the front! We still waited forever for them to show up, but it was worth it for "God's chicken."

We got a free membership to a local museum in Burlington on Lake Champlain and went as much as we could.

Our first experience with a broken bone! At our church's end-of-summer Labor Day picnic at the lake, Leah was helping Jacob on the playground and got her arm stuck in one of the bars of a jungle gym. She heard it snap and when she came to us, we could see that it was visibly bent. Brett took her to the urgent care where they just wrapped it and put it into a sling. The following Monday we headed to the orthopedics, where they told us she'd have to be put to sleep in order to correctly set the bone, since it was bent like a twig. Leah was pretty anxious about her first "surgery" (although no cutting was involved) but took it like a champ and came out with a nice pretty blue cast. 

Jacob had his first dentist appointment. He was such a big boy in the chair I just had to take a picture. He opened his mouth and followed all the instructions like a champ. He didn't like the sound of the tooth polisher, so she didn't get to do that part, but he had no problem with the dentist looking at his teeth.

Abi had such a great time in the local rec dept. gymnastics class last semester that I found a larger gym in another town to enroll her year-round. It's a 45-minute drive and much more expensive, but she really seems to have a talent for the sport and I really want to give her the opportunity to grow and learn as much as she can. There is much more equipment at this gym and she has more of a chance to advance. We probably will still only do every other 10-week session.

Brett & I attended our annual Pastor's Retreat, this time in Manchester, Vermont, only about an hour away from home. It was a really nice hotel and always a fun getaway with great food and fun meeting new people!