September/October Goals

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These are my September/October Goals:

1. Go to a local Farmer's Market/Farm
2. Send Chris a housewarming gift box from Amazon
3. Make homemade soup
4. Burn fall-scented essential oils
5. Have family movie night
6. Bake cookies
7. Bake pumpkin bread
8. Open windows and enjoy the air
9. Take evening walks
10. Go look at fall decorations in the stores; buy some new ones for dining room credenza
11. Put out fall decorations
12. Jar start fall classes
13. Get some home projects done (clean garage, do some more organizing, clean the gutters, cut down flowers, pressure wash around house, paint the stairs hand rail, trim bushes, grass seed out front, weed preventer in flower beds, fall weed and feed on grass)
14. Finish flooring in all three bathrooms and laundry room
15. Go for drives and take photos
16. Go to the coast
17. Spend more time outside
18. Celebrate Amy's birthday (Keizer Station, downtown shopping, Hobby Lobby, Home Goods, Trader Joe's, Oktoberfest, movie night, EZ Orchards)
19. Celebrate Michael's birthday
20. Go to Red Robin for our birthdays (or bring it home and watch TV shows or a movie)
21. Amy has eye appointment
22. Amy use progesterone cream for two months
23. Go out with Mom
24. Cut Lily's hair
25. Go to Oktoberfest
26. Boys go play Frisbee golf with Logan
27. Take fall photos
28. Go on a hike (Silver Falls and Opal Creek)
29. Watch college football
30. Go to a high school football game
31. Rake leaves
32. Make chili
33. Make potato pancakes
34. Get pumpkin latte from Starbucks
35. Get apple cider donuts
36. Get a pumpkin roll
37. Go to the outlets
38. Play outdoor yard games
39. Play a board game
40. Have a fire in the fire pit
41. Get into a good cleaning schedule
42. Play four square
43. Boys go to YAM
44. Boys go to soccer
45. Boys go see The Joker movie
46. Michael and I watch a lot of Gilmore Girls
47. Go to see For King and Country in concert

These were my May/June Goals:

1. Renovate the bathrooms
2. Renovate the laundry room
3. Cam do some minor updates on his car
4. Jar clean his room and bring Lego's down from attic
5. Cam clean and organize his room and get some new furniture
6. Buy two new computers
7. Me work on trying to get anxiety more in control
8. Michael update his speakers on the Malibu
9. Michael take some work trips
10. Me minimize the house even more
11. Exercise daily
12. Boys begin their summer classes
13. Boys go to YAM
14. Boys go to soccer with YAM
15. Jar sell some artwork to people at work
16. Go hiking
17. Pressure wash the house and all concrete
18. Do moss removal powder on roof
19. Michael work on HOA stuff
20. Pay off most of credit card
21. Go for more walks
22. Eat Keto
23. Cut Lily's hair
24. Cut all of the boys hair
25. Go to the coast for the day
26. Take more photos with my camera
27. One family day per month

Life Lately

September is always my favorite month, but since I have not been feeling great, I did not do all of my fun normal things that I like to do. September was also very rainy, which is very unusual. I do not think it has rained in September the thirteen years that we have lived here.

Here is what has been happening around here lately:

...Michael went to Boston on a business trip for work and stopped in Indiana on his way. Here are some photos of his time in Indiana:

with Uncle Roland and Aunt Karon 

with cousin Kirsten

with cousin Kirsten and sister Sherry 

...playing with the aging app

lifelong friends...the McKinneys

...some photos from Boston

where Cheers was filmed

...Michael painting the kitchen

...I found these at Safeway

...I got my fall decor out of the attic 

...Cam got his diploma from college, so I went through all of his homeschool portfolios and got rid of most of it (it ended up being way more emotional than I thought it was going to be)

...I sent this photo to Michael while he was away in Boston

...these are some of Cam's drawings (I call him the next Chip Foose)

...another school portfolio finding

...when Michael was away I told the boys they could get one thing at the grocery store, and I would pay them back. Jar got a whole case of coconut water :)

...this is what Cam got - all junk food :)

...I organized the utensil drawer

...I keep going more minimal and getting rid of more and more stuff. I got rid of one of the tall storage cabinets in the dining room. This is the mess before I got it all put away

...here it is finished with now only one tall storage cabinet

...Mom brought me breakfast on my birthday (so sweet)

...this is what my three men got me for my birthday :)

...the hung sign in the laundry room

...the plant that I got for my birthday

...the finished entry table

...Mom went on a 10-day trip to San Diego to be with her sisters. Here are a few photos

...cute outfit on Jar

...Michael laying the new flooring in the master bathroom

...I got rid of most of my books (I only own about 15 now). Here are two of my favorites:

...I bought this tiered piece for Mom for her birthday/Mother's Day gift. Here it is decorated:

...Mom brought these back for me from Coronado Island as a thank you gift for watering her flowers

...I used to have hundreds of books (I have always loved to read). I am now down to around 15 books, as I am really trying to become very minimal. They are all health books.

Other happenings around here lately:

• the butterfly machine broke and hit Jar in the head
• the boys went to the Salem Fair with their college friends
• Michael had an HOA meeting
• we celebrated Michael's and my birthday
• we watched Secret Life of Pets 2

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• Michael and I watched a lot of Gilmore Girls
• I have been watching a lot of Friends (I am trying to finish it by Christmas, as they are removing it from Netflix in the spring)
• Michael and I watched A Dog's Purpose

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• Michael and I watched Avengers: The End Game

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• we watched Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

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• Jar worked on pumpkins at work...he moved 6,000 lbs. of them in one day
• I started using Audible to listen to audio books (I love it)
• I had an eye appointment (so I can rule out my eyes causing the imbalance, cause my eyes are fine)
• I feel like a very slight improvement has been made in my anxiety issues