Next trip to Vegas? 6 weeks. Flying this time... staying with Bianca. You know, because we love to torture her new love interest with thoughts of the two of us in a mad embrace. *beams*

School starts up again in a couple of weeks. I'm excited about Ian going in to first grade and even more so about Matthew starting high school. How is that even remotely possible? My first baby. I remember looking at Matthew when he was only a couple of months old, willing him to always be okay. I stared and stared, studying his sweet, fat little face, swearing that I'd remember it always just that way. I wish I had taken more pictures. Now my darling oldest child can stick his own tongue up his nose. Yes... I have pictures. How did this happen?

Other news... the weather is changing. I can feel the air cooling and I look forward to the bite it will give me in the mornings to come. Already I curl into the blankets and wish the daylight would come a little later. I can't wait for sweaters and jeans, for the golden leaves on the aspens against the green mountainsides... for Halloween and Thanksgiving!

I'm so having the kids bob for apples this year.