August Recap

Since my last post of randomness didn't generate much response, it's time for more randomness, but with pictures! Just like I promised. Alright. Here we are. August recap. And.... GO!

* I'll just start off right away with our date-night-movie-of-the-month: GI Joe
We give it two thumbs up! A little "hokey" in some parts, but Sean and I are suckers for blockbuster action flicks and this definitely fit the bill. We went on a weekday night to see this... totally uncharacteristic of us.

* We have a new niece! And Ethan has a new cousin!! Ryan and Amy (and Jonathan and Ella) welcomed Leia Dianne to the world August 5, 2009 at 11:26am. All of Ethan's (first) cousins currently come from Sean's side of the family - now with two boys and two girls!I like this picture... shows Dr. Ryan Southworth in action with his new baby girl.

* Sean spent the week after I got home from Girls Camp with some of the young men in our ward for their high adventure activity. They left Monday morning and headed to the White Salmon River in Washington to go rafting.Then headed to Eastern Oregon where they stayed the night at base camp, then hiked 9+ miles up (from 5000 elevation to 8400 and back down to 7200) to camp for the rest of the week. Beautiful location... unfortunately they got rained out. They learned they don't call it Swamp Lake for nothin'! Friday they hiked back down to base camp and were supposed to stay there for the night. But with all their gear soaked and the boys exhausted, they decided their high adventure activity was over and spent the night "roughing it" at a Super 8 motel and ordering in a pizza.

Meanwhile, Ethan and I had the week to ourselves. Monday we rented a movie and ate popcorn. Tuesday Ethan was an awesome helper and we washed the Explorer. Wednesday we had a Costco date night. Thursday was a cleaning party (oh joy!) and Friday we had Danae and Sam over for dinner/movie - ok, that may have been more of a mommy girls-night-in, but whatev, it was still fun!

* Speaking of which, in case you couldn't tell. We have new friends!! Not that Sean and I have trouble making friends, but we don't have a lot of people, other than Tory, that we really get together and do stuff with, you know? The Winders are our people. We love having them over for good food, good conversation and game nights! Seriously. Good times.
* Love these early morning pics I snapped of Ethan this month while he was eating breakfast one Saturday morning. My baby boy is getting so big!
* Garden update: The cucumbers are done. Have been done. I don't think that the plant I bought matched the outcome. They were supposed to be "straight 8" cucumbers but they were big and fat and rather yellow. Next year I am getting lemon cucumbers. Our tomatoes are still growing like crazy. The early girls are just about done, but we still have plenty of romas. Three tomato plants have been more than enough for our little family. Our jalapenos are also finally ready - now that the season is ending. I had really hoped they'd be ready a lot sooner so I could make fresh pico de gallo. I guess I'll still do that, but I wanted it more for BBQ season. Oh well. Live and learn.

* Auntie Cassie celebrated her Sweet 16 Birthday... while in England!!Lynnie, Alysha and Cassie were in England to visit Lynnie's family. Among other things I know they enjoyed seeing the Billy Elliott musical and a Beatles tour (Cassie loves the Beatles!). We sure miss Auntie Cassie and all of our Southworth fam in SoCal and Penn. December will be here soon... I hope!!

* And finally, more Ethan phrases we are loving...
- "It's a stain!" (this does not refer to an actual stain on carpet, clothing, etc. but instead any sort of scab or scrape on Ethan's skin!)
- When he's looking sleepy we'll ask him, "Ethan are you a little tired?" and he responds, "I'm a BIG tired."
- "I fixed it!" or "I did it!" (said when he completes various small tasks like throwing away his dirty diapers, etc.)
- "Ta Da!" (also used when he accomplishes something)