August was a big month of change for us. After more than 11 years of everyday life with the Saturn, we decided to sell it. It served Dan & I well over the years, through days at Santa Clara and early days of dating when we had “matching Saturns” (of course there’s a picture of that….
It survived many commuting days to and from work and to and from Walnut Creek from San Jose or Milpitas when we lived far apart. While it isn’t the car we brought Connor home from the hospital in, it was in fact in the driveway when we got there. It got loaded on a truck and made the 1100 mile move to Montana.
And now, its time to say goodbye. Thanks for the good memories!
And with the close of one chapter, we opened another. It just worked out that literally the SAME DAY, we officially purchased a float raft! Some of our friends here were selling the float raft together with a trailer and the great price convinced us to do it! We’ve talked about getting one “someday” since the day we moved here, knowing it would be hours of future family time where the boys would actually want to hang out with us. It will also be a blast when we have friends come to visit (who’s going to be the first friends in the raft??? The race is on 
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We got the raft in the middle of August and we’ve taken it on two trips now… with lots of sun and success!
Inaugural trip on the lake so we could make it however far Connor could handle! He hasn’t been on it on the river yet, just cause you can only get out at set take outs and he may not last long enough (at least not quietly and being willing to listen and not run around too much). Maybe next summer he’ll have graduated out of the “two’s” and be ready to listen for a river float trip.
Brian, Dan & I got to check out the river though and had a fantastic day! Looking forward to many more trips and lots of visitors to check it out too!
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