Rolling With It: Catch up

We didn't make it to the Black Forest, but we did go to the outlets. Although Nick was off last Wed-Fri last week, he was still supposed to attend a 1 hour training session one of those days. He originally was going to go Wednesday at 1, but at 9 that morning his security manager kept calling the house for him. His top secret clearance needed to get updated that day, so luckily he had his work computer at home and was able to accomplish that at home. But because of this new task, he missed the briefing. I said there was no way we would reschedule the outlet trip because I know if we did, we wouldn't ever get there. It's just how my lovely husband rolls...ha! So he said he'd go Friday, which was the day the Black Forest was planned. So on Thursday we headed to the outlets. I'm so glad we did. It was a really nice outlet, lots of "American" stores, but also the nice "German" type stores. We are making plans to go back. We made plans to go for hikes around the local area on Friday since he had to go to a briefing at 1. Friday morning we wake up and he has and email from his secretary stating there will be more briefings the next week. So, he didn't go on Friday and we ended up not going anywhere because it was raining. Usually when it rains here, it rains for 5 minutes, is done, and an hour or so later another 5 minutes. Well that day it rained ALL day long. It was nice being home and no where to go. Because we were running around so much last week, I was so behind on laundry. I had 7 loads to do (including bedding) so it was the perfect day to get caught up.

Saturday we made it out to a new lake I found and took a walk on the path around it. It was beautiful! I think this will be our new favorite walking path.

she's so fun to take pictures with!

Saturday afternoon (Oct 6th) we went for a walk and collected fall items, came home and made a fall sensory bin. Xander still loves playing with it to this day!