Welcome to October

It's October, Everyone! Yay! Nothing regenerates me more than the change of season. I welcome it with open arms...especially when my arms are wrapped up in layered tee's.

We celebrated October 1 by a trip out to the USNWC (U.S. National Whitewater Center). Yep, Charlotte is home to the first and only whitewater center, where the US Olympic teams practice/try out for anything related to whitewater rafting/kayaking. Just another reason to LOVE Charlotte, NC. Not only does the USNWC have rapids for whitewater, kayaking, flat-board and other things, it also hosts zip lines, canopy tours and other group exercises. It really is such a fun place to spend a Saturday afternoon. Our favorite thing to do is just to go and people watch those in the rafts going around the man-made rapid course and have lunch at the yummy restaurant overlooking the rapids (always comes back to food for me!).

It was the first time for us to take Maryn out there...she LOVED watching the water and the people in the rafts race past her. And they happened to have a Grand Pyrenee Rescue meet up on Saturday, so she got her doggie fix in too with lots of them look at.

Maryn watching the rafters go by!
Speaking of our little pipsqueak; Maryn celebrated her 9 MONTH birthday on Sunday! She really is getting to be so fun and such a happy girl. The last couple of weeks she has graduated up to a big girl carseat (still facing backwards), waving bye-bye, clapping her hands (and attempting to do her best at singing while clapping--BE STILL MY HEART), pretty much crawling (though not officially, but she is mobile and fast), and has finally done away with her 3rd nap. She is such our big girl and can't wait to see her VA cousins next month.
Here is the first attempt at a family photo--not the best but you can see the rafts behind us!