We love #65!!

Jen and I went to Boise this weekend to see our nephew Joel play football on his high school varsity team. It was awesome! Not only does Timberline High play at Boise State's college stadium (can you say "smurf turf"???), but he's mighty good, too! While he has played on the offense line for years, this year he's on the defensive line (or the "D" line, as they say...). He plays his heart out and is so big and good that the opposing team has to put two or three guys on him to keep him from breaking through the line!

Needless to say, we LOVE #65!!

And, it's always fun to visit Matt, Melodee, Joel, Jessica and Tom. We hit Boise on a beautiful and sunny fall day and had a great visit.

We met Joel's awesome girlfriend, Chandler.

And Jess spent the whole day on Saturday with us! She and Tom are doing really well - and I can't believe she is 21!!!!!!!! (I am not that old, to be sure.)

Enjoy the photos!

http://picasaweb.google.com/megandjen2008/JoelPlayingFootball#slideshow

Welcome a new member of our family....

It's true...Jen FINALLY retired Montana, her 1994 grey (actually, purple) Honda Civic....with 194,000 miles on it. Despite the timing belt fiasco of last month, it's still in great shape and I'm pretty sure she would have driven it into the ground if the air conditioning still worked!!

But, goodbye is goodbye--and on Saturday, we welcomed our newest pants family member home. Meet the 2009 Jetta SportWagen. (When you don't have kids, you have to celebrate the small stuff!) After ordering a version of this car, which was set to arrive sometime in December or January, we were overjoyed to get a call on Saturday that there was a car waiting down at the port...and it was nearly identical to Jen's order! So, she was willing to go with blue instead of grey - and a match made in heaven was born.

To celebrate, we promptly had our first road trip. On Sunday we drove to Yakima (forsaking even NFL football games!) ... to see the sun and buy a couch. Next weekend we'll drive back and pick up said couch.

How cute are we?

A quick pic from our trip to Orcas last weekend...cute, huh? (well, at least Jen is!)

FINALLY summer in Seattle....

Yep, it' s 80+ degrees here today. This is the view outside my window...wish I could be out sailing! But it's nice that today is September 16th and Western Washington hasn't had a drop of rain. The weather was nice enough that Noah walked over and we had coffee...outside!

Enjoy the view!

Now that summer is nearly over.....

I feel like I've missed most of summer! (Undoubtedly, I have missed much of the good weather...though September is proving to be beautiful). Because of work, I was at the office or in front of a computer for most of my time, starting in June. And because of a car accident, I'm off my bike :( until early next year. 

But we did have some good weather this weekend...and Jen and I enjoyed the Coleman Pool for one last sunny day before the end of the season. 

And don't feel too sorry for us....we did take Friday off and head up to a retreat (though work-related, through my work) on Orcas Island. The weather was beautiful and the company was good.

Love, 
Meg