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Card Exchanges for September

Here are the card exchanges I have for September. I do not have one of everything that was done, but they were all equally as wonderful as these I'm posting.

And guess what? We woke up to snow this morning!!! Hopefully it will all be gone soon, at least before Thursday when we have to drive to the retreat at Lava. Since I don't have to go anywhere today, I can enjoy watching it come down, but the dogs that are outside are not liking it much.

October brings Fall Weather

Well, October arrived, and boy does it feel like fall/winter weather came right with it. We've had much cooler temps these past few days and there is rain/snow predicted in the next few days. WOW, I'm not really ready for that. Time just keeps flying by.
Sean sent Pepper (his dog) to stay with us again. Pepper has grown ALOT since she was here at the beginning of September. But the three dogs seem to be doing OK together. Pepper and Bella stay outside most of the time, and Rascal stays in. That seems to work the best, but Pepper and Bella don't really think it's fair.
Sean sent me a text today asking for his birth certificate. Inquiring as to why he would need that, he said that he was going to Chile in December. His girlfriend's mom is from there, and I guess they are taking the whole family and bought him a ticket too. He just found out about it a couple of days ago. That should be exciting!!
We are getting really anxious for Jacob to be back with us. I check the court cases every few days to see when he shows up, but nothing so far. He should be back here before Oct 25 at the lastest. I hope he is ready to go forward and get his life in order. He seems to have a different attitude now and I think that is good.
I enjoyed listening/watching General Conference today (for the LDS church). There are always good talks and seem always to "hit the spot." There were a couple today that really touched my heart and made me think. I will look forward to re-reading them later.
Well Wendell and Jenna are watching Mary Poppins, and I think I'll join them. Nice, relaxing evening. Oh, we bought a new car today - well not NEW, a 2001 Ford Escort, but certainly newer than our 1990 Honda we traded in.

WOW, how the time flies

Well, I can't believe I haven't been posting here since August. I just can't seem to get caught up. Over Labor Day we drove to North Central Idaho to visit Jacob. We took Jenna, Melanie and Mel's friend Esther. We drove up on Saturday to Grangeville. The drive was very pretty and we didn't really hurry, but didn't really stop alot either. A lot of the drive is next to the rivers and that was cool, especially to be able to see all the rafters, kayakers and other boats. We also saw a lot of really neat bridges. I'm sorry to say we didn't get our act together and take pix of the bridges because there were so really cool ones. Oh well, maybe I'll get smarter in my next life. We stayed in Grangeville. On Sunday Wendell and I went to visit Jacob. That was nice and I know he really was so happy to see us and know we had taken the time and resources to make the trip. He is anxious to come back home, which will be happening in October as far as we know. After that, Jenna joined us and we drove on to Lewiston and over to Clarkston, WA. Beautiful drive!!! Idaho is a gorgeous state with a lot of varied landscapes to see. We stayed over in Grangeville again and drove back home on Monday. We drove through McCall on our way up and back through Weiser, so we saw some different country. The drive up was definitely the prettier, but I always like to see new country.
I don't have the exchanges scanned from September, but I'll try to get those posted over the weekend.
The retreat that is coming in October is almost here and the work is pretty much done. Now I have to get ME ready!! I love to plan things like this, but trying to plan my "work" for doing there is another story. I am terrible at things like that. I just spent 3 days in Soda Springs with 2 of my sisters and my mom this week, and I hardly finished anything because I didn't have what I needed with me. So I really need to plan better for this retreat. I am very excited and I may actually take scrapbooking to work on - I know - wonders never cease!!
Thanks for stopping by. Come again soon.