Settlers of Catan

Have any of you ever played this game?

I have to say the first time I played was way confusing, but the second time I started to think this could be a new favorite game in the very near future.

Some of my Favorite Girls

This was a picture we took out on the town at Early Girl Eatery with this last session's summer staff in the snack bar, store, and crafts. Aren't they sweet?!

Farmer Chris

This is just one thing that Chris did this summer. This week he's back to school with kids coming on Thursday. I went to work today for the first time since "summer" ended on Saturday. It was a little lonely, I have to say. Now that I have more time though you can look forward to more posts!

Bear

I just thought I'd share a picture of the bear print on our back step. (Sorry there's nothing for scale.) On Wed. morning we were woken up by a call on Chris' cell phone from our neighbors across the street. They wanted to make sure that Homer was inside because there was a bear in our back yard. Thank goodness, he was! We looked outside and saw our trashcan knocked over with trash spilling out. Then we saw that he was eating apples under our apple tree. Next, he bent a fence to our neighbor's yard and walked on over. It was unreal. I mean, it's not the first time we've seen a bear nearby, but it was SO close. After he was out of sight, Chris could hear him going through other people's trash and later a car alarm went off. Needless to say, we were awake!