A little bit of everything

Where to begin.  Feels like we've lived a lifetime since Sawyer's birthday party weekend.  So we'll try to use some pictures to tell our story.  First off is we finally celebrated the ACTUAL day.  Sawyer turned 4 mid-week and we celebrated by letting her select her dinner of choice - a cheeseburger and fries from a local hole in the wall which suited us all just fine, and some more cupcakes.  She had gotten a birthday party at school as well, so she rocked her crown and seemed to enjoy herself so much.

And a little dark one of Sawyer and I while we were singing.

We ended the work week a bit early because we had Grandma and Grandpa come to town.  Started off a little rough - I kept the girls home from daycare and we went to pick up G&G from the airport before heading downtown for some fun.  However, our girl Sawyer didn't feel so hot in the car and threw up. Thankfully she gave us some warning and Grandma held a bag to her mouth so we managed to avoid any sort of mess.  Plus, she felt a whole lot better afterwards.  Something didn't seem to sit right with her breakfast I guess because she was all sorts of wound up the rest of the day.  We went and picked up some new shoes and a new fall coat, and got a quick hello in with Aunt Kathy and Aunt Sue who were also in town before heading out to lunch, and then back home for naps.  All that walking around the city tired them out so we got some good sleep out of those girls.  The rest of the weekend was spent hanging with G&G, getting pizza, going to the farmer's market, the library, the playground, out to eat...all good stuff and best of all Sawyer and Isla loved having them here.

I got a few good pictures of Sawyer playing catch with Grandpa.

 I couldn't get them in the same shot but love Sawyer's face.  She was being a crazy girl trying to take Grandpa's head off but it had both of them laughing pretty hard.

A big hit over the weekend was Curious George.  Toys go in and out and back in to fashion at our house, and George is riding an all time high after this visit.  Grandpa would have George dance for Isla, and then she started imitating him.

She has since started carrying him all over the house - and both Sawyer and Isla slept with him on two different nights which is new.  One night it even resulted in a big bruhaha fight between who would get him.  Grandma didn't get as much love this weekend because these girls were Grandpa's girls.  Next time I'm sure it'll flip flop.

Mark was gone for most of this time.  He headed out Friday morning for New Hampshire to run marathon #17.  Despite missing all of our fun, he seemed to enjoy some time alone and took himself around Manchester, Concord, and then finally Bristol where his race was.  Not having been there with him, all I really know is he ran his race in 4 hours 37 minutes which amazes me since he didn't run more than 12 miles at a time to train.  Sounded like it all went well, despite being a test of wills.  We were happy to have him back late Saturday night so he could see G&G a bit before they left town.

After they took off, Mark and I headed out for a little afternoon of fun ourselves.  We got tickets to the Ryder Cup from Mark's cousin and it was the first golf tournament for both of us.  Was super cool but crazy how many people were there.  We walked around a bit and saw Tiger and Stricker tee off for their matches, then made our way to the 13th hole before spending the rest of the day at the 17th hole where it seems the US team came to die.  So many matches turned on this hole but it was so cool to see the players up close.  This was our view and the players walked across that walkway to get to the green in front of us.  

And here's Mark enjoying himself.  We made our way home and I was so tired from the weekend and day outside that I feel asleep on one of Sawyer's twin beds at 8p while Mark was giving her a bath.  Woke up at 2am and felt pretty good, especially when I realized I could go crawl back into my bed and sleep longer.  It was definitely needed because we're all sort of fighting a fall cold, plus it's been a crazy busy week of work for me which means Mark's been covering for me with the kids, which means he's been busy too.  Such is life here in the Harris house.  We're looking forward to a pretty low key weekend with perhaps some pumpkin purchases, and maybe some apple picking in our future...