So Far September

September is a busy month for CPA and I've worked a lot over the past few weeks but we did make time to visit... THE STATE FAIR!

 Maddy LOVES the state fair. We took her last year and she had such a great time so we decided to come back again.  Unfortunately, the only time we could come was on a Monday night so we didn't spend quite as much time as we would have liked but it was still so much fun.

Maddy loved this balloon ride but two years in a row I've gotten off it feeling might sick to my stomach. Next year hopefully she'll be old enough to ride it without me. I could handle all the other kiddie rides but this one about did me in.

In other September news:

Granny, Granny . . .

Over labor day weekend, Scott joined his brother Jeff and Jeff's father-in-law for some salmon fishing on the Colombia river. I flew to Portland on Friday evening and spent a glorious day to myself in the hotel room and then on the side of the road in the car while Scott did some fly fishing. That evening we visited with Jeff and Chantiel and her family and then Sunday morning we got on the road for the long trip from Kelso, Washington to  Boise, Idaho and then Monday from Boise, ID to SLC, Utah.

 Oregon was both pretty (with lots of trees) and ugly (with lots of blah).

We came home with salmon. Lots. Too bad Scott doesn't like it. He made some for me to eat and we gave some to our sweet neighbors in trade for the vegetables they've been sharing with us all summer.

Katie watched Maddy while we were gone and she was wonderful to her, as evidenced by her cute hairdo you can see in the above picture. Why won't Maddy sit nicely for me and let me do pretty things with her hair? Thanks Katie.