18 Years

Anniversary fell on a Sunday ... so we took our anniversary picture ... on our anniversary! Julia's friend Ava was here to take the picture - this saved about 15-20 minutes of setting up the tripod!

Family Pic - with King Oil from Grandad's house

Family Pic - more typical

One with just Doug and Sara - sort of

One with ONLY Doug and Sara

Rochester Hockey Tourney

Doug and RJ drove to Rochester for a hockey tournament. Drive was nice with fall foliage on the way up and nice and wet on the way back.

Remnants of Hurricane Isaias made it a wet ride home. Traffic was light and organized!

Pregame Huddle for Game 2

Team went 2-1-1. The two wins were against the same team. The tie was 3-3 - Caps were up by 3 until third period. Gave up a goal with 28 seconds left - and then almost scored. Lost 2-1 to the bruisers from Pittsburgh. Missed the final on the 5th tie breaker ... penalty minutes. Team wanted to play the dirty team from Pittsburgh again ... but no luck.

Cross Country - 6th Grade Girls

Sara helped organize the first cross country race. Julia participated on the winning sixth grade girls team. Julia ran the 3km in 14:47. 

St. Agnes 6th grade speedy girls

Amelia's pool / 4-wheeler party (some girls lacked driving skills)

Sunflowers Side Shed

Failing to raise the fence high enough allowed the deer to chew the tops off the sunflowers (see post Garden, But). But as a result we got double the number of flowers. Unfortunately the varmint that ate the seed-producing saplings in back destroyed our food source.

Deer unwittingly doubled or tripled the number of flowers

High-School Foreshadowing?

Gonzaga freshmen (i.e. RJ) had a welcome mass and picnic with the freshmen from Georgetown Visitation.

Julia and Doug didn't want to go but found about 25 field hockey balls which turned into a game of bocci ball. Grrr... didn't get pic.

Doug did take this picture ... 

Is this Julia's future high school?

Hockey in Hershey

The CHA3 team started the season with a tourney in Hershey, PA. Won 2 (big), lost 1 (big), lost a close one to CHA2. 

We missed the first game due to work and high school. In the third game RJ pulled up lame with a hip injury that but him out of the tournament. No contact, no fall, no explanation ... he cannot lift his leg without pain.

Friday, night late night travel. Free scrap sourdough bread from Panera

RJ takes a face off

Bachelor night dinner

Yum Dinner

 What's better than a delicious dinner? Answer: a dinner that you don't have to make, don't have to clean up, and don't have to pay more than the cost of groceries.

RJ and Julia prepare steak and potatoes