We certainly were waiting in anticipation for the pictures from the last month adventures in Big Bear's disposable cameras. They are included this month. As many of us know they didn't all come out but they will certainly retain some great memories!
Next came the beginning of crazy antics for the month with some big box character door approaching in the neighborhood. They made an amazing character and visited friends to have them guess who was inside. : ) As the days go on progress is still happening at the gym, but meanwhile the girls continue to enjoy every practice. Cienna enjoyed another Friday football game with friends before we went to watch Stone and his team win a soccer game the next day. It had been a while since we had been to watch a soccer game, we had a great time!
Unfortunately Cienna's wrist started hurting and that has been ongoing through the month, but she has persevered through all of it. She believes it is in full recovery after a doctors visit, x-ray, specialist visit and a possible MRI. Diagnosis so far is a tear of her TFCC ligament. That certainly hasn't stopped her. She did her first high school music concert where she played with symphonic winds which include all upper classmen in her class and only 2 other freshman. She did amazing!
Then Mom (I had a hard time not writing Mommy) and the girls were heading on a super anticipated flight to Santa Rosa for some quality time with Darcie at the gymnastics center to have fun and to learn new choreography from "the best!" for their new floor routines to perform this up coming season. Daddy drove us to Burbank so we could go directly to Santa Rosa and Poppa was able to pick us up. It was an easy flight and we loved spending time with Poppa that evening before heading off to the gym the next day. On the way we made a stop at the Grafe home to see Courtney and her family. It was great to catch up and hang out for a bit before heading to 6 hours at my gymnastics center. It was an experience of a lifetime for the girls to get their routines done by and learn from my optional coach! The routines are amazing and the experience with Darcie is even better! They even asked Darcie if they could come back Sunday before our flight to practice some more. She of course made time even though she had an entire coaches clinic happening. She made every effort to make the girls happy and confident in their routines. You couldn't ask for a better coach/person.
Meanwhile Daddy went down to San Diego to visit with Uncle Joe and attend a local Oktoberfest with their buddy Jeff. They had some amazing times catching up and drinking local beers out of giant steins!
After Saturday evening we picked up Lepe's to share dinner with Poppa, and made plans to have a delicious breakfast with the Marty's in Petaluma the next morning before the trip back to the gym. Poppa took us back to drop us off for the flight home.
Daddy then picked us up that evening and we got home late but in enough time to play with some sticky hand toys and get ready for the week ahead.
Cienna had a college career day that she and some of her friends showed the armed forces booth that girls can certainly do enough pull-ups to get a shirt. Daddy and Mommy went to date night while the girls were at gymnastics and were very thoughtful to bring a huge pretzel home for the girls which they loved.
The next weekend we got to add Ash to our family and had such a great time taking all the knowledge that we learned from Darcie's choreography to work together and make Adi a pretty awesome optional routine! Afterward we did end up taking Adi for her first TP'ing experience at a couple friends houses in the neighborhood.
Homecoming Week followed. Cienna had a great time dressing up up each day, then the big finale was a school carnival on Friday, followed by a football game and a casual dance in the quad following with a lot of music and fun times.
Another eventful weekend was planned...and then it seemed like the whole weekend cancelled on the girls. Their saturday gym practice was cancelled due to excessive cement dust from construction. But to save the day they had a fun sleepover at Clara and Paige's house where they did each others makeovers and the such. They got up in the morning to go to a trapeze class as a treat for Clara's 15th birthday only to get cancelled minutes before we all left. We will certainly reschedule, but it was a bummer for the morning.
We decided to make the most of the time and get a bunch done around the house together as well as do some thrift shopping for Halloween costumes, take the dogs to the dog park, and enjoy time together!
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