The Weekend & Today!

Well, today we spent the morning at home because mommy made and canned 9 quarts of spaghetti sauce. But we did get out this afternoon to meet another mom & her kids at the River Bend Nature Center. You can watch this little video (coming soon!) of Isabel fishing pond plants. She's a funny girl. We spent about an hour and a half there at the turtle pond and in the kids outdoor play area building things & exploring. I really like this nature center.

After we came back from the nature center & grocery shopping we had dinner & mommy chopped and froze 8 quarts of tomatoes. Then daddy came home and we played outside as long as we could with the shortening of daylight on this first day of Fall and then went down to her playroom to play until bathtime.
We went to Grandma & Grandpa's house this weekend. We were there for a visit, a birthday party and a baby shower. Busy weekend. Isabel was enjoying wearing the dress-up cowboy hat that was there and the other dress-up hat as well. You can't really tell from the picture, but she is standing on a mini-trampoline that she loved jumping on. In the other picture she is playing in the pile of sand that was just delivered to the farm. She would climb up, jump down, slide down, & dig in the sand. Good fun.
Here is a little collage of pictures of Isabel at the birthday party. It got a little chilly that afternoon/evening so we had to dress a little warmer than we had to in the previous week. It was a good time with good food.
The birthday party is for Isabel's cousin Blake who is actually turning One tomorrow. Instead of digging into the cake like a lot of kids do, he just stuck in one finger to get some frosting & lick it off. It was cute.