Grandma Rygmyr came to visit!

Grandma sent herself as a gramma-gram! We didn't have time to take her sightseeing much but we did get to go to the zoo and have manicures. We also assembled a super great grill that Grandma bought us as a house warming gift. And we are so glad she was with us at the Fall festival (see next post).

Our golf pro!

While Grandma was here visiting, we went to a Fall festival at David's school. They had lots of fun games to play and prizes to win. The first game Nathan played was a golf game with little Velcro balls that you got onto the felt wall target. David was showing Nathan how to hit the golf ball. Nathan swung the club and with a very nice back swing, hit David right in the ear. I took David to the bathroom to clean it up and get a closer look at the wound. We found that the club sliced through the ear and cut the scalp as well and that we would need stitches. Luckily, we were so close to the hospital we just walked there and Grandma stayed at the festival with the kids.
David ended up getting 11 stitches in total. They had to call an ENT in to stitch up the ear because they were afraid it might have cut the cartilage. He had 2 inside stitches and 5 surface stitches on his ear and 4 stitches on his scalp. They had to put a bolster on it to prevent cauliflower ear and they had to Pierce his ear twice to put it in. Ouch.

Primary program

Well, the Rygmyr children did not disappoint! They were dressed adorable, their hair looked good and they sang well. When it came to doing their parts, that's when the fun began. Nathan read his part and then, as the other children came up to sing, Nathan said into the mic, "this is weird". AJ said his part in a robot voice with a "beep boop" at the end. And cute little Tessa said her part just right, but most people couldn't understand her "I can be fise and not foofish by foffoeing heavenly fafther".
Well, another year until we have to go through that again.

The pursuit of great pictures...

Another trip to the temple after church to try and get cute pictures of the kids. Today was successful!

Butler's Orchard

Some friends from church ( Huband's) invited us to go with them to a pumpkin patch. They have two boys the same age as Nathan and AJ. We had a lot of fun in the slides, in the corn maze, jumpy house, hay barn and magic maze (think hay parkour). We had a whole day of fun and came home with a bunch of pumpkins!

Labor day weekend

We had a fun Labor day. It started with a parade in Kensington. We walked to the parade and saw some friends from church that we watched the parade with. And after the parade, we went and got slurpees from 7-11. Our next adventure too is to Alexandria VA to see the Coast Guard "tallship", the Barque Eagle that docked for a few days. The Coast Guard used it as a sailing school shop to train officers. It was a lot smaller than the HMS Victory in Portsmouth, but in much better condition. The Eagle was built by the Germans just before WWII and stolen.

Cool Army stuff

Grandpa Rygmyr came for a visit and run the Army 10 miler. We went to packet pick up with him and they had lots of cool Army stuff to check out. The kids had a blast gunning and jumping out of helicopter's and playing on dune buggies. I think the 6th generation of Rygmyr soldiers may have convinced.