A Summer Favorite

Summer End

So, Labor Day has come & gone and it is now time to prepare for fall. But wait I am not the best blogger so let me give you our summer summary. We kicked the summer off with water babies. Gretta loved getting in the pool. She couldn’t do much but splash, but she was loving it! Elijah celebrated his first Father’s Day it was unforgettable I’m sure, however I can’t seem to remember exactly what we did. I am confident that we had a great time whatever it was! O yeah we threw Noah and his parents a baby shower and we got to see our good friends Carrie & Ryan (clear from Cali) in the process. All I am going to say about the party is that the cake was amazing. Ha..ha…We had a good time getting everybody together. Elijah & I celebrated our 9th Wedding Anniversary with one of our first evenings out since Gretta arrived. We missed her terribly! On to July….first off I left my work at the YMCA and became a full-time Mommy. One of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made. We celebrated the 4th in style with my parents in Carmel, IN. The Carmelfest was a bust! It was rainy, the parade was a disappointment, but we got a lot of laughs out of it. Thank goodness for the mall!! July, july, what else happened??? We continue to work on the kitchen. Not a whole lot else going on. Moving on to August. Of course the big 1st birthday happened which I did get posted. We had such a fun party with all our family and friends. We are so blessed. After the 1st birthday party we headed down to Brookville Lake for our annual week long camping trip. It was Gretta’s first camping experience and I believe she loved it. We three slept in our tent. Which she seemed to enjoy playing in during the day time. We got wet, a lot more than any other camping trip I’ve ever been on, but it was still a good time. We went to the State Fair!! Yeah!! I love the State Fair. Gretta loves animals and really enjoyed see all the different ones. Except for maybe the pigs, she wrinkled her nose and did her stinky snort that she does when she smells something stinky…so cute!! Elijah had an ice cream fiasco. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. I believed he called it a “disaster”… basically what happened is the boy ordered to big of an ice cream cone and it was melting faster than he could eat it...hilarious. Another one of Eli’s food dilemmas. LOL very funny. Gretta wrapped the month up with her 12-month check up. She weighed in a little smaller than expected but she is happy and healthy so no need to worry about weight gain at this point. We just hope she puts on the pounds here the next couple of months. And here we are in September. So, needless to say we had a really fun summer. I am still chuckling about the ice cream “disaster”…sorry, I’ll move on.
So, want a glimpse of what is in store for us this fall. We’ll we hope to have more play dates with Noah, Aubrey and Grandma Shannon. We are looking for the perfect dog Halloween Costume. And even more exciting we are heading out to California the first of November to visit Carrie & Ryan our friends. Yeah!! And we hope to have a kitchen counter top by the end of September actually. I am continuing to try to find my groove as a stay-at-home mom. So, I am working on getting the kitchen all organized, planning a closet that Elijah’s going to build for our bedroom, and getting my laundry room organized. Well, that is the Welch update for now. We hope to post more in the coming months. I am also working on some pictures from this summer to get posted. Those should be out soon! Until next time…happy blogging!! (I am soooo cheesy!)