Day 250/365 - September 7

Avery auditioned for the chorus at school last week.

I noticed the information about sign ups, but didn't mention it to her. She's had so many adjustments already, why add more to her plate?

Imagine my surprise when she told me that she went by the music teacher's room and signed up for an audition date.

I printed the lyrics for the song she had to sing and she worked on memorizing them for several days.

Audition day. Avery gets in the car that afternoon and tells me that she did terrible. They had to pick up singing in various locations in the song and sing various harmonies much slower than she was prepared for.

She goes on to say that if she doesn't make it, she will just try again next year. I was beyond proud of her positive outlook!

Lucky for Avery, she won't have to wait until next year!

Yep, my baby girl made the school chorus!!!

Day 249/365 - September 6

Wes finally broke down and replaced the lawn mower...with a push mower. I don't think he's very excited about the new purchase.

How can you not be? Let's look at the price comparison.

Push mower = $300
Riding mower = $3,000

Once you see the comma, there's really nothing to discuss.

Avery and I headed back to the Y for one last hoo-rah today.

I forgot the pool bag.

The pool bag had the sunscreen in it.

You know what that means. We both got a little bit too much sun.

We played about two hours and then headed home to get ready for dinner at the Goldens.

We had a yummy Labor Day BBQ filled with ribs, baked beans, cole slaw, deviled eggs, scalloped potatoes, fried okra, squash casserole, and I'm sure some other yummy food that I'm leaving out.

After dinner, Avery pulled out her knitting supplies. We picked up a kid's knitting book at the library Friday and the supplies from JoAnn's yesterday evening. She quickly picked up the basic stitch, but neither of us could get past that.

Avery was frustrated.

I was frustrated.

It wasn't pretty.

I'm hoping I can sweet talk her into learning to crochet.

Working with one needle HAS to be easier than working with two!

Day 248/365 - September 5

After the late night, we just didn't have it in us to make it to church today.

We did a little house work and just relaxed, trying to recover from Saturday.

I took Avery to the waterpark at the Y since it's closing this weekend after Labor Day.

It was a wonderful way to spend the afternoon.

See her relaxing in this chair? It's where she spent at least half our time there. She sat right beside me and we just talked. Sweetest.thing.ever.

The other part of the afternoon was spent going down these fun slides. Over and over again. Never gets old.

Day 247/365 - September 4

Today is the first game of Auburn football for the season- woo hoo!!!

We were fortunate enough to get two tickets (thanks to Wes's wonderful parents) and only had to buy a ticket for Avery. We headed up to Auburn early, making sure we had time to tailgate.

Avery saw Aubie and we snapped a few quick pictures.

While waiting for Tiger Walk, a nice fan took a family photo of us.

Once we made it into the stadium, we quickly got situated for Nova'a flight. If you've never seen this, it is simply an amazing sight!

Here, you can see Nova (War Eagle VII) on the right hand side of the score board in front of the Alabama Power sign.

Here, you see Nova (War Eagle VII) about to land in the middle of the field.

Like I said, simply unbelievable to observe such a magnificent creature right there in front of you!

After a not-so-impressive game, but better-looking final score of 52-26 over Arkansas State, we headed over to Toomer's Corner. Avery has been asking about rolling it after the next win ever since she heard about it a year ago. We promised her that the next time Auburn won, she could roll Toomer's Corner. We kept our promise tonight.

Avery thought it was the coolest thing. She had the best time and it was totally worth staying until the end of the game, getting stuck in all of the traffic, driving home while Wes and Avery slept, and not getting home until 11:30. No, really...it was.

Day 246/365 - September 3

Wes has really been worried about that little bird that he knocked out of the nest last weekend. Enough that he picked up some bird seed at WalMart tonight!

We placed it out (along with some water) when we got home from Wally World.

I had to go back out later in the night and check on the little fella.

See how close he is to the food now??? Maybe Wes didn't cut this little guy's life short after all! I must admit, it's our little project. Every time we pull in our out of the driveway, we ALL look for this little bird.

Day 245/365 - September 2

Wes came in tonight and said, "why don't we go eat Mexican."

Pretty sure Avery and I were in the car without answering!

Can't have Mexican without yumm-o cheese dip!

Day 244/365 - September 1

Looky where we found Princess tonight.

That's the top of our TALL cabinets.

She jumped on the counter, then on top of the fridge, and somehow or another managed to get up to the top of these cabinets.

They are easily 10 feet from the floor.

Any guesses how she got down?

It wasn't how she got up there. That's because Wes was standing near the fridge trying to help her down.

Of course, she went to the opposite end (where you see her in the picture) and jumped to the floor.

Crazy cat! That's a LOOOONNNNGGGG way down!