time just flies when you are having fun!

Hello!
It's so hard to believe that today is the first day of fall! Its still warm here though I insisted on wearing a 3/4 length shirt with jeans today. I just want it to be fall weather, I want the leaves to change, I want to go to a pumpkin patch, I want to jump in a pile of leaves... Instead it is 89 degrees oh well.

So much has happened and I have been such a slacker on updating you. I need to steal pictures from Mikes camera!

We have had a lot of fun in the past couple of weeks! Aliyah turned 9 last Wednesday! Mike and I threw her a birthday party on Saturday afternoon at a park. There were 7 kids there total and we made a treasure hunt for them. At the end of the hunt was a high heeled shoe pinata for them to bust open! They all had a great time. We had bright pink cup cakes and played some other games as well. Later that night we had family movie night and just chilled out.

Sunday we went to St. Peter and the kids are meeting more and more friends from here which has been awesome. We went to my friends house, the Sutter's with the Nguyen's and Bottke's. It was seriously one of the most relaxing days we have had and just loved it. What wonderful families they all are. The kids played and swam and the adults enjoyed the hot tub.

Mike left for San Diego this morning for a couple of days. What we are most excited about are our two upcoming trips! Mike and I can't wait to get on the plane in Sacramento Friday night to get home and see my family and friends! Then on October 4th we will be driving with the kids to the LA area where we will be getting on a cruise ship the next day. We plan on playing and having fun all week! I'm looking forward to a relaxing week away. Soaking in some sun and being away from normal life for a while. It will be amazing. We are going with our friends Duc, Nicole, Haley, Hunter and Lexi. I think the 9 of us will have a blast! Being slightly on the girly side, I am also looking forward to getting to dress up for dinners at night as well.

Our sad news is that we can't seem to find any good airfare to spend Christmas with my family. I don't know what we are going to do about that. It may just be me coming or worse yet none of us may be able to make it. Seriously if you could pray for airfares to drop that would be amazing. It's generally anywhere from 490-650 per person! YIKES!

If you could keep me in your prayers as well, i am off to find out if my ovarian cysts are coming back to get me again. It's not a major deal, more of just a literal pain. Whatever is going on, I'll just be happy to get a report back and move on in one of two directions!

Well I should get going! For all my St. Louis readers! I can't wait to see you this weekend! I can't believe how close it is, but I wish we were already there!

Much Love,
Melissa