I had forgotten the baby room at our daycare, called the Cubs Room, has a tradition around Halloween of creating a Tushy Pumpkin patch. They literally stick the baby's bum on a plate lathered in orange paint and then make a bum print on a piece of paper. Evie's bum was so small she got to paint her bum twice for a double pumpkin. I was there when she did this and it was funny to watch Evie's face. She didn't cry, or whine.......just had a curious look about her. hahaha
October seemed like a busy month, and November too, but we'll get there. Here's a few of the random pics I took along the way.
The family photo is from cousin Jessica's wedding that was actually on Jax's bday. That was one busy day...
October 1st I found myself without a job when the government shutdown. It was a super crappy feeling because it was not that I didn't want to work, or I wasn't able to work, it was simply that I wasn't ALLOWED to work. Now that's just stupid. Ever since I started back to work in mid-August after maternity leave, I was working feverishly to get a large-scale water quality sampling project up off the ground. It was a lot of work to do in a short amount of time and I had great folks working with me to make it happen. My project lost thousands of dollars when I had to bring my groundwater sampling field crew home from southern Nevada and samples I shipped to the labs for analysis expired as they sat on shelves and exceeded their hold times before analysis. To say the least, I was pissed.
Welcome to 2014. Holy smolly, how did this happen? Where has the time gone? Obviously it was not spent blogging, so I'll once again try to play catch-up.
