Busy September (part 1)

Where did September go?  The month was so busy for us that it seems all a blur in retrospect.  Fortunately it was full of fun, happy things.

Rhett saying "Hello Doggies!" at the home of a family in our ward where we were having our youth activity early last month.

Grandma and Grandpa Duersch came to visit from Utah for five days.  When they arrived they found a little bird on our walkway that seemed to have flown into the window and become temporarily unable to fly.  The boys enjoyed looking at her (and poking and prodding her) until Grandpa placed her on a branch of a bush to recover.

Benjamin and Rhett couldn't have been more thrilled to have people to play games with them!  Grandpa was oh-so-patient playing Hungry Hungry Hippos...

and Grandma was a great Candy Land traffic director, keeping Rhett out of Benjamin's way while they both navigated the board.

Grandpa's new iPad was a huge hit.

On the second day of their visit we drove to Mount Baker and went on a little hike.  The boys enjoyed the snow!

Benjamin loved using the binoculars.

Rhett insisted on being carried the whole way down.

On the way back from Mt. Baker we stopped at Nooksack Falls.  It was very awesome, but the splendor of it all was hard to focus on while Rhett was trying to slip through a gap in the fence, on the other side of which were slippery rocks and a steep drop into a rushing river.

 

More to come.