Because It's Been Nearly Three Weeks...

I should update this thing! How about a "top ten" events since my last post? Here goes, in no particular order:

1. The first week of September we were in the ER in the middle of the night with a croup-y Sadie struggling to breathe. In typical Sadie fashion she charmed everyone in the ER and turned the whole thing into a 1:00 am game of "I'm Darth Vader," because she thought she sounded like him with the raspy voice. Also, the clip they put on her finger to measure her pulse glowed red, like Darth Vader's light saber. (Mind you, she's never seen the movies, which goes to show you how much Eli talks about them!)

2. I went shopping at Ann Taylor for work clothes, hit a 20% off everything sale, had $50 worth of coupons, and scored $200 worth of clothes for just over $100.

3. Enough of Eli's Kiva loans were repaid that he was able to make another loan. This time we really got into it and we got out an atlas and printed out a blank map and mapped his loans. He is so excited about keeping this map going and eventually filling it up as money is repaid and he makes new loans.

4. Cards picked up one of my cards last week and Scrapbooks etc. picked up one of my layouts this week.

5. My parents celebrated their 40th anniversary! :)

We also went to Los Angeles (one day at Disneyland, two days at Seth's parents' place in Venice Beach) for a long weekend and...

6. Sadie's dream came true when she met Ariel:


7. and Belle:


8. Eli's dream came true when he trained as a Jedi:


9. and got to fight Darth Maul (while wearing Crocs):


10. Four generations got together:


And...bonus #11, we saw Jon Heder (of "Napoleon Dynamite" fame) at Disneyland and Michael Keaton at a restaurant in Santa Monica. Gotta love LA!

I promise a scrappy post sometime this weekend!