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I'm just checking in for the night. We had a pretty good day. We went to our community park and had a picnic but we had to leave because Ellyn kept trying to go to the pool and we hadn't planned on swimming. Got the details on the pool though. They keep it open until the 28th of September, just on the weekends. Pretty pricey- six bucks a person no matter what age- makes me miss Germany. We paid 5 euro for everyone and had 5 great pools to choose from. Oh well... then we left and went to the Dennis the Menace playground and that was very fun. It made me feel a little lonely though. Jane and Sadie went running off and I had the two little ones and I realized that I always have a friend or a sibling with me at the playgrounds when I take the kids. Sawyer and Ellyn were so cute though. We played in the sand and on the swings. Sawyer is officially waving and saying "hi" now. Sporadic but it is still happening. On the way home I decided we would take a look at the beach in Carmel. Wow, for one, there is that big auto event this weekend and it was Ferrari galore. There are beautiful homes and a gorgeous, expensive, touristy shopping area on the way down to the city park and then there was the beach. It was beautiful. I think we will be taking lunch there this week.

Monday I have to take the pre-inspection in for our house and that is right next to the aquarium so Monday is our aquarium day. I am VERY excited about that. I am just going to buy the family membership on Monday, I know we will use it enough this coming year to make it worth it and it isn't too bad. I'm most excited to watch Sadie and Ellyn. Oh, guess what? Ellyn was trying to follow a bird around at the playground today. She was very purposeful about the whole thing, weaving back and forth with its movements and looking at me and smiling. It got too far away from her and she came running over to me. I thought that was pretty cool.

Well I am going to go to bed now. Church tomorrow. I had big plans for getting everyone showered and ready tonight and then I ran out of energy. I think it had something to do with feeding the kids spaghetti without a table. Crazy. I will have one tomorrow though, our new neighbor, K Mello, is lending me hers until our stuff gets here. We can eat breakfast and lunch on the patio but we have been eating dinner too late lately and it gets chilly.

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