New Playset

Hi All!  Hope you are enjoying your exciting November!  We are!  Fall finally showed up (not too cold, not too hot!) and we are taking full advantage!  Last weekend we went to a friend's house to help them dismantle a play structure.  Jan and Tim's boys are now in college and they decided they wanted to remove the play set the boys played on for years and put in a more "adult friendly" bench and water feature.  But thankfully they didn't want to just throw out the play set.  SO. . . they gave it to us - FREE!!!  Not only that, but they helped us take it apart and move it to our house!  We are so blessed to have such generous friends!  So anyways, last Sunday we spent the afternoon (and a good part of the evening) taking apart the playset and moving it to our house.  Riley was so excited . . . everyday last week he would ask me "is Daddy going to build my playset today?"  So Finally Saturday he set aside the time to do it. 

Disassembling at Jan's House

Reassembling at our house (this is quite a ways into it already)

Riley can't get enough, and it's not even finished yet!

Yay!  All Done: "treehouse", slide, rope swing, swing, climbing net, monkey bars, room for sandbox underneath, and more!

It took awhile with just the two of us (ok, mostly Cam on his own).  And some very nice neighbors stopped over to help us stand the thing upright.  But he finished it all in one day!  Riley couldn't be happier!  He has played on it nearly non-stop since it was put together.  It's supposed to be nice all week this week, so I'm sure he'll be out there everyday! 

In other news, Jayce is getting more steady on his feet.  He's walking 3 and 4 steps confidently now (away from the couch) and standing for just about everything.  My guess is by his birthday (which is only a month away now - sheesh!) he will be walking almost everywhere!  Ugh! 

Yes, it's only a month until Jayce turns 1 year old!  I can't believe it.  And I know this month is going to go fast!  Next week is pretty busy for us, MOPS, pictures, a Girl's Night Out for me, and Breaking Dawn comes out (SO EXCITED FOR THAT ONE!!! - I may spend the entire weekend in the movie theater!!) Then the next week is Thanksgiving.  Once again a quiet Holiday at home with just us.  Then on Friday we are going to go cut our Christmas Tree.  Cam has some work shutdown days on Saturday and Sunday, so we are going to skip black friday (not that I care to venture out in it anyways - 5 years working retail cured me of that!!) and go Christmas Tree cutting instead. 

Then the week after Thanksgiving is another busy week - The Week Before HAWAII!!!  All our last minute prepping and Grandma & Grandpa Louie are coming!  They are going to stay with the boys while Cam and I take a MUCH NEEDED vacation to the beach!  I can't wait!  Cam's running in the Xterra Challenge Race there and so we are taking some extra time to relax.  2 or so days of sightseeing, 1 day of hiking, and the rest it's just laying on the beach!!!  Now that's MY kind of Vacation! 

Then we get back and it's Jayce's Birthday Party, early Christmas with G&G Louie before they leave, and then just another week until Christmas!  Wow, the rest of this year is gonna go fast!