End of summer...

The Munson babies had a pretty uneventful summer, until August rolled around!

We started our August out with a quick trip to Utah so I could see my doctor down there. We managed to get a full day in at Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. We rode the train, and the carousel, saw the baby elephant, ate lunch there AND had icees! The kids had so much fun, and so did Mike and I! We will make this trip again next August, it's a great little end of summer vacation!In the car, on the way to Salt Lake City.
In front of the Hogle Zoo.
Riding the train at the zoo.
Playing on the playground at the zoo.

A few weeks after that, my parents and niece Hannah came to Montana to visit for 5 days. We drove along the Missouri River to see the falls, went to the Paris Gibson museum, the Lewis and Clark interpretive center, had a picnic in the park, went to the fish hatchery, the outdoor plane museum, and played lots of cards! The visit was way too short, and went way too fast. But we were sure glad they made the trip! The Munson babies in front of the Missouri River.

Hannah and Charlie in front of the buffalo at the
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center.

Nana and Papa with the grandkids at the
outdoor plane museum on base.
Everybody feeding the fish at the hatchery.
Papa and the Munson babies sitting by the river.

A week after they left, Charlie officially became a full time student! He started Kindergarten on August 25, and he LOVES it! Mike and I really like his teacher, he has a class size of about 20, and one of my good friends here, her daughter is in his class! He has PE, and Art. Music, Computer time, and Library. Plus I was nervous about him eating school lunch, and planned on sending a sack lunch everyday, but he's actually tried a few hot lunches and surprisingly liked them! Kinzie, Nicholas, and myself definitely feel his lack of presence at home though. We're all 3 so excited to see him after school!All ready for his 1st day of school!

August also brought us Mike's 28th birthday! We were lucky enough to actually get to go out and celebrate, just the 2 of us! Our friends' anniversary was the 28th, so we switched baby-sitting and each enjoyed a much needed night out, KIDLESS! Mike and I hadn't been on a date alone since we left Germany, 15 months ago! We were going to go to dinner and a movie, but neither of us were hungry, (or hungry enough to be able to eat supper AND pig out on movie theater snacks!) so we went to Old Navy, to get Charlie some new jeans, walked the aisles of Office Max, and spent some time in Barnes and Noble. We went and saw The Expendables, which I must confess I wasn't looking forward to, but that's what Mike wanted to see. I ended up really enjoying it!