Indian Summer-ish

We have had some incredible weather the past few days! Today I'm pretty sure my thermometer said we had gotten up to 71°! We took full advantage today and spent a good portion of it outside. After all, today is Samantha's 9 month birthday! And no Chris, I don't care that you think there is no such thing as 'month birthdays'.
This morning we went to church, which is always an awesome time in itself. I was volunteering in the infants room for the first service, and then Chris & Samantha came for the second service.
I may be jinxing myself here, but ever since I've started volunteering in the infant room on the yellow team I have had nothing but great Sundays with the kids that come in. The first time we had about 5 or 6 kids, and they were all super happy babies. No melt downs, just little babies who wanted to play on the floor.
The second time we had two kids, and one of them was mine. Oh, and they both napped. All I could say was wow.
Today we had 5 kids, 3 of them napped, and the other two were happy to just play and be held. Amazing. I keep waiting for the winds to change where we end up with 15 babies who are hungry and cranky all at the same time, but so far, we're in the clear!
If you have a few minutes, you should totally check out this video. It's what we heard at our church last week, and something that I think everyone should hear, whether you go to our church or not. Seriously, take half an hour and listen.
A Call to Decision
This afternoon we raked up some of the leaves in the front yard so Samantha could have her first experience 'jumping' in the leaves. Bandit literally dove into the pile of leaves and buried herself. You can kind of see the end of her tail here. I love that crazy husky. We took the bike trailer out of hibernation for a trip to the local dairy store. They have homemade soft serve ice cream, and we've never tried it before. I'm pretty sure we got a pint of a flavor called raspberry rocky road. I actually completely forgot it's in my freezer until right now, so I'm going to cut this blog post short and go give it a taste test.