Big Day, Late Night

RJ is keeping busy with school, hockey, and commuting. After lifting at Gonzaga he decided that it made sense to help clean up by skating the goal to the other end before ice resurfacing. Yes, he was the last one off the ice at 9:23pm.

RJ drags the goal across the ice. Notice the CHA4 pile up (not a fight).

Garden - finish strong

The garden made a late year comeback. RJ's radishes re-seeded themselves. Cherry tomatoes continued to produce. With all the other plants out of the way the lunchbox red peppers started thriving!

Tomatoes, lunchbox red peppers, and one of 500 radishes

RJ's Day Off

On a random Wednesday, RJ got a day off. He had plans but not much transportation since Sara was sick.

Fishing in Reston

 

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 being mean Moms

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

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

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 Catherine with some balloon animals (lot of candy not pictured)