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.

Julia and Friends

Sara arranged a lot of play dates for Julia ... 

Ava from Whitetail unwraps a ball of plastic wrap full of random toys (Oct 11)

Amelia (granddaughter of neighbor) and Julia strike a pose

While Doug/RJ were in Rochester, Julia arranged Lee Heights, a movie, and skating with Brooke (Oct 9)

Julia, Alex, and Kate with the Pringles costume (Oct 10)

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St. Luke Picnic

It looked like a rain-out but the weather turned and we all had a fun day at St. Luke. Doug worked the grill for the Knights, Sara brought Julia and her friend Kate. RJ met Bradley. The kids got a lot of prices and candy.

Only Doug's spatula appears in this pic ... Pav was the master sausage cooker

RJ and Bradley focused on laser-tag. RJ got hundreds of kills hiding behind a tree in the spawn area

Julia and Kate with some balloon animals (lot of candy not pictured)

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?