Football then Futbol

Uncle Brian and Aunt Debbie came in town for the weekend. It happened to fall on the first Gator Football game of the season. Brian wanted to watch the game with the DC Gator Club. We headed into DC with Landon all dressed for the game. He was pretty popular with the crowd. Many were praising us for getting him started so early! Little did they know that neither of his parents graduated from the school. I guess having two uncles who've graduated from the school and one who's there right now, is enough! Go Gators!
After the game, one of Debbie's friends met us out. She works for the Secretary of State. We headed to the State Department for a tour. Right outside the State Department was a statue of Albert Einstein.
Before heading in, Brian enjoyed a corner stand hotdog. yum! We ended the day with some more futbol! We headed to the RFK Stadium to watch DC United vs. New York Redbulls.

Back To School

The summer is sadly coming to an end. I start back to school tomorrow, so that means Landon goes back to Miss Nancy's. Luckily next week is pre-planning so there are NO students, but I know we'll be in meetings all week. This summer I didn't get ready like I did last summer, so I need the week to get my lesson plans together.

We never thought we would be doing "back to school" shopping for an 11 month old, but we had to stock up on formula (this should be the last time we buy it...yea!), diapers and wipes. I'll be sad to leave Landon but I know he is in great hands. We absolutely love Miss Nancy! I'm sure once Landon steps into her house, he won't be worried about me leaving. He'll have so much fun!




Not only did we stock up on diapers, wipes, and household items, we stopped at Children's Place Outlet to see if there were any good deals for clothes. We wanted to get Landon some play clothes, and we did! We were able to get him 11 shirts and 6 pairs of shorts and all of the items we $1.99 or $2.99, just the way I like it!

My Little Elf

I know it's a little early for Christmas talk, but the pictures of Landon below reminded me of this.. The Elf on the Shelf, is an elf that comes from the North Pole to watch over the children in the house and reports to Santa on their behavior. The elf that comes to our house is Christopher Popkins, but I don't have a link to his site.

Now, just to let you all know, I don't normally place my child on top of furniture. It came about when we were putting the dining room furniture back in place after painting this week and Papa decided to place Landon on the top. I had to get a picture and when I went back to look at them, Landon reminded me of a little elf!

Bad News

We found out today that the airing of Brian and Debbie's episode of My House is Worth What?, has been moved! Sorry about the confusion. We, ourselves, were a bit confused because the episode synopsis wasn't quite what we thought it would be. So...once again, I'll notify you when the episode really airs!

Alumni Run

Every august Bishop Kenny hosts an alumni run. It's a run in which the current cross country team runs against the alumni. I haven't participated since the one just after I graduated from BK (I was in great shape then) and I was roped into running this year by my friend, Kathy (3rd from the left). I was a little weary of running but it was fun to meet up with past graduates. Pictured below are '97 graduates before the run:

(from left to right: Shannon, me, Kathy, Janice)

Here we are after our run with our Coach, Tony Ryan, and a '98 alum, Brae. We're now looking forward to the "hash run" in december!

(Brae, Kathy, Janice, Me, Shannon, Coach)

After the run, I thought I deserved a little treat. I decided to stop by Vanilla's Cupcakery and get some gourmet cupcakes...don't they look delicious...

I was introduced to these by Kathy (from above). She had invited Landon and I over for dinner and she had some for dessert. I had to get some more before we took off for home!

Silly Boy

I haven't been posting much about this trip to Florida mainly because most of what we've been doing is this...

...which is nice. Usually we find ourselves driving all over trying to visit as many people as we can. This time we kept it simple and really relaxed! Landon and I did manage to meet up with some girlfriends from college. Though we (the girls) didn't get any pictures together, Landon did. I met my friend Cher at her house and waited for the girls. While we chatted, Landon played with her dog, Lily.

When Lily had enough of posing with Landon, he occupied his time by playing with her toys and getting in her cage (with a little help from mommy!)

After all that playing, Landon decided to take a nap before dinner in Lily's bed! Thanks, Lily, for sharing!

This was just a cute picture I had to add...

Are your Tivos ready?

Get the popcorn and the tivo ready because Brian and Debbie are gonna be on tv! A while back, I posted about these two...

being on this!

If you don't remember, they recorded an episode for the tv show: My House is Worth What? We just found out that their episode airs this Sunday (8/17) at 7 pm on HGTV. So tune in!