And, soccer season has begun, which means that that we get to enjoy this new cool Fall weather once a week as we watch Samuel displaying his skills on the field.
Sage, however, thinks this makes for very long Saturdays.
at Gardner Village. What a fun place! The shops are all in restored old houses, and they sell things like linens and quilting supplies and old fashioned candy. I bought a pumpkin tree for my entryway, a butterfly charm for my camera, and rhinestones for my eyelids. (Holloween is coming up.) Oh, and an orange shirt that says "Peace, love, LUCKY MOM", that sort of makes me look like a pumpkin. But that's ok. Shortly after Halloween's over I won't be so round anymore, and the pumpkinesque-ness will go away. I hope. 
(Good heavens, I look like a pumpkin and you can't even see my belly! It's all just swelling, right?!?) Then Annette and I hooked up with the third member of our BYU-roommates trio, Lyndy. Our husbands were the roommates. We are the wives. We just really lucked out and like each other lots and lots and lots! We got pedicures and shopped a tiny bit and Annette bought us matching necklaces. Thanks Annette! Love them!!
Our husbands eventually caught up with us, and we went out to eat at Olive Garden, then came back to Lyndy and Shawn's so we could visit till our eyelids could barely stay up. 
The next day, Annette and I shopped here, at the Sundance Harvest Festival... 
...amid this scenery. Does shopping get any better than that? 
just doesn't show you what we went through. She fell, face first (obviously!) onto the corner of our stone hearth, and was bleeding so much that Lexi asked, when we got back from the dentist, if she'd had to have a blood transfusion. I retrieved the tooth from her mouth and put it in some milk, Chad got a hold of one of our local dentists, and we headed to his home. Between calls to Aunt Paula, and Dr. Dalley's advice, we decided to not try to put her tooth back in. It just would most likely be a lot of pain and trauma for nothing. The other front tooth is loose too, and I just hope it rights itself.
We'd been to Dr. Dalley's home on another Sunday night, two or three years ago, when Samuel knocked his front two teeth out on the trampoline. When we left, Dr. Dalley gave us the code to his front gate just, you know, in case. We do have 4 other children who still have front teeth.
We put a net up around the trampoline shortly after Samuel's incident. Do they sell bumpers for hearths? I think I remember seeing one on Trading Spaces once, but it was made of Weight Watchers Hungry orange fur. Doesn't really go with the decor, but if it saves my children's teeth, I s'pose I'm willing.
Things For Which I Am Glad:
Sage still likes baby cereal.
My kitchen tea towels were already red.
That Sage has big blue eyes and pretty blond curls that will distract from her dental imperfections for the next five, six years.
A sister-in-law and a mother-in-law who came at a second's notice to take my children so we could leave.
A father-in-law who combed his resources for our dentist's cell phone number.
An aunt who knows teeth and could give us direction before we could even get a hold of a dentist.
That Sagey is Motrin'd up and for the moment has quit saying "Owie," and opening up her mouth for me to kiss it better.
And especially, for a dentist who is willing to let us interrupt his Sunday evening, again, and attend to our mishaps.
At least Sagey has good timing. Whatever she is for Halloween, it will be scary.
Sage was the only one who didn't try out the tube.
Our fearless pilot and his co-pilot
The brave ones got an extra wild ride.
What are those wooden women that are carved onto the front of huge ships called?... I can't remember, but Eden was ours.
The younger ones got back on for another ride, and Lex and Lil were slightly bored with the slower speed.
We parked in Cathedral Cove and dove in for a swim. Samuel wanted to climb the rock. So he did. The water was blissful, and being weightless, for me, was just a little bit o' heaven.
Gary was fearless, and jumped again and again into that bottomless water.
Eden, with Lily, swam back and forth between the boat and the shore, gathereing mussel shells and piling them on the back of the boat. 
