Surgery and Visitors

In my head, September means jeans, pumpkin everything, crisp air, and changing leaves. But, in reality (in Florida), it is about as hot as August.

At the beginning of the month, Andrew had his inguinal hernia surgery. His parents came into town to help out and it was very appreciated! Before the surgery, we had a few days of fun. We celebrated Labor Day weekend at Postal Point. The water felt great and we had a picnic under the pavilion. The boys loved it.

We ventured out to McGuire's in Destin one night. It was crazy busy and the bagpipes were a little annoying (just ask Marion haha) but the food was delicious as always. I got the corned beef and it came with an entire HALF head of cabbage. We also ran into Yani, her dad and Alex there, so that was an added surprise :)

Andrew's surgery went well. The first two days were really rough though. He had to pee in a gallon jug and he pretty much moved as little as possible. Us women had to keep pushing him and reminding him he needed to walk, walk, walk as much as he could ;) The nurse had told me the more he walked (just to the bathroom, kitchen, etc...not a marathon) the better.

On Day 5, he was able to leave the house and we had lunch at the Golden Corral. The boys stocked up on food, especially cotton candy ;) We even journeyed to the outlets in Sandestin but that was pushing it. He got too hot and we headed home.

Debby and I left the men at home a good bit and we, along with the boys, got out the house and had some fun. Of course we hit up Bippy's, Starbucks and Target (a few times). We went so often to Target that when I later asked Maddox if he wanted to come with us (again), he said, "Why? We've been there a million times already this week!"

Kinda true.

The day after the Therrells headed back home, we kept Ava while her mommy had her little brother in the hospital nearby. 

And finally this week we get to dive into kindergarten. We got in school where we could the last couple weeks, but it was mostly lighter work/review and now it's the real deal.

Wish me luck!