The past couple months have been fun as the weather is beginning to cool down. Damon is walking all over the place now and is beginning to lean out of his baby fat. His eyes change color every day. Most recently, they are green. He is now 1 year old! Holy cow. For his birthday, we celebrated at a park near our house with our close family and played volleyball while the kids played on the playground.
We also recently had a family reunion on the Wilkins side of the family up in Pinetop-Lakeside. It was nice to get out of the heat even more for the weekend. We stayed at my grandparents house where there were less dogs to worry about Damon walking around with. He did surprisingly well on the drive. It's the longest drive he has been on so far. He slept half of the drive and then I just sat back with him and entertained him the rest of the time. It worked out surprisingly well. We also stopped at Woods Canyon Lake to fish for a little while on the way up to the reunion. We didn't catch anything, but it was a fun experience.
For Halloween, we dressed up as Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto. Damon hated wearing his ears, so you couldn't really tell what he was unless you looked at his collar. We went trick-or-treating just around the block and he did well. He sat in his stroller most of the time. So he didn't really know what was happening except for a night walk with people dressed weird. He enjoys the candy though. We are looking forward to the rest of the holidays.
Adam recently started studying for the CFP exam. He's always been very studious and a very hard worker. I picked a good one! ;) So he will be preparing for that for the next year and then he will take the exam at the end of 2017.
With the election coming up, I'm sure we are just as tired of all the junk on social media and the news about the candidates, but I'm mostly curious to see what it does to the housing market. I am hoping it brings house pricing down so it makes it easier for us to purchase. We are still saving up and aren't sure what the timeline looks like as far as buying yet, but we are HOPING for 2017. It might be in a shack, but it's a reasonable goal.
