Aunt Tinka was Here

Sorry about the not so frequent updates-and I was "subtlety"reminded by certain persons ...(ahem Mel &Rob) that I am slacking. Not only dos my new position afford me no free time on the Internet, but fall television has started and between my mother and I we have two DVRs going a night to capture all that wholesome goodness. God I love television.

Katie was here this weekend. That was super cool, but unsuper cool is the fact that I will not see her again until October 17th. I know that a lot of people don't get to see their siblings often, but I am so used to seeing Katie every weekend! Friday night we came back to the new Raab abode and Katie told mom and dad she thought the inside of the house was pretty awful... (lol!) Saturday Preston spent some quality time with the babysitter while us girls went for pedicures. I must say I am a wee bit disappointed in the pedicures here. I am used to a good massage-that includes some beating of my legs-here I was lucky to get a medium intensity rub for five seconds on my shins with the cream. The massage chair however was so hard it was painful, so what I think they need to do is lessen the massage on the chair and increase the massage on the legs. And while we are on things I don't think I will ever get used to-I really am having a hard time understanding the lack of speed on the highways here. I really don't see how people get from point A to point B in time. There is just one speed and it is freakin 55 mph regardless of the lane one is traveling in. There have been quite a few curse words thrown around on my way to work (sorry Marrah). So I propose that Virginia drivers step on it. God-I should run this state. ;-)

Here are Katie and Preston hanging out in the "attic" or third floor.

Here is Preston being a goof ball on the porch.

We also took Katie shopping to the Stony Pointe Fashion Park. The malls here are quite amazing. Saturday night Katie and I attended a "passion party" hosted by one of Jordana's neighbors. Katie has attended a few of these (her friends obviously way more adventurous than mine) and it was such a fun girls night out. Due to this being a family blog, I will refrain from getting into detail regarding same, so suffice it to say we had a lot of laughs and I got to meet some really great girls.

On Sunday we had a nice breakfast from Panera and then we went to the Short Pump Mall. There was a cute children's train ride that Preston and I went on and I'd show you pictures but Katie took them on her camera despite my protests and of course they are not available at the present moment, so I'll have to do an addendum to this post when she gets around to it! Preston had a blast riding on the coal car around the outdoor mall. When we got home we watched Big Blue win again (yay!) and then watched the Emmy's. Here are some pics of the dude!