Author: Sharell

We hope you have a super great, relaxing day filled with happiness! We love you!

Casey and I went to Blacksburg, VA to the location of the undergraduate VT campus, about 40 minutes away. We were amazed by the beauty of the campus-it was gorgeous! We both got VT shirts in preparation for our first football game we are going to on Saturday! Go Hokies!

We also went out to dinner with about 30 of Casey’s classmates to celebrate the other September birthdays 🙂

Today we picked Casey up from school. Penny got to play fetch and we visited the river 🙂

And today, a King’s shirt arrived for Casey! He’s one happy guy!

Besides the usual shtuff, today we refilled our water jugs (Yes, we finally found a place to refill at so we can reuse our jugs and not pay $14 for 10 gallons of water…yikes!) and Casey received an awesome King’s hat in the mail! We will be making phone calls tomorrow to find out who sent it-he loves it, so THANK YOU! 🙂

To my other half,

You make me a better person, you make me laugh, and you always care for me. I am so proud of you. Happy Birthday!

Love you always,

Sharell

A scenic drive took us to our next adventure location!The Roanoke River Trail

Color galore!

Through the forest, under a bridge, to the…power plant…? we go!

We ended up at Niagara Hydro Power plant. If you hear sirens, you have exactly 2 minutes to head to high ground in order to avoid the dangerously high water level rise coming. No wonder there were sandals and t shirts left behind.

The little one had fun splashing in the pools and soaking in the dead crayfish water. Yum.         At least we wore her out before the thunderstorm 🙂

Look what was waiting for me when I came downstairs this morning. How did I get so lucky?!   At least he didn’t put the cup back in the cabinet.

Anyway, back to work.

Let’s all give a round of applause to Penny for finally going BOTH potties on her porch potty! Sorry for the TMI, but we are too excited and proud of her not to share 🙂

We went and visited the Roanoke Star, which sits atop a mountain near our house. It is the largest man-made star in the world and lights up every night until midnight. Built in 1949, it is 88.5 feet tall and the star itself is 10,000 pounds, while the entire steel structure is 60,000!

This is Penny’s “ah I feel so much better” face. Little goob set a new PR and went potty FOUR times on our trip to the star. Note to self: bring twice as many baggies next time.

We also checked out the Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic drive that meanders for hundreds of miles, part of which goes through Roanoke.Penny was loving it-I think she needs some doggles though.
I also watched Kassi over the weekend, she’s such a pretty girl!

We put more Tyvek on the basement ceiling to cover the insulation.And we put together my dresser, which I promptly started to decorate.

Breakfast for dinner and more Scandal watching was a must.

Thunder storms were forecasted but all we saw were blue skies. Penny appreciated her fetch session near Casey’s school.