Sister Emma

 

We're soon to have another marvelous sister missionary!

Random doings

Syl hid all of her mice under the fridge.  I pulled them out, which made her happy... but then she proceeded to start batting them back under the fridge again.

I pulled out the eggs to make dinner and ended up having to clean the floor, fridge and inside the freezer.

We took Seth to the Provo City Center temple for the first time.  That was fun.

It was so hot this year that we didn't get many flowers.  We finally got some blooms a month late.

Seth got his birthday present legos and was in love with them... he's so cute.

I took two photo shoots at the Oquirrh Mountain temple in the last two weeks.

Ada and I got to see the gilded doors at BYU before she moved out.

I went to help mow the lawn and ended up eating raspberries as a yummy reward.

 

Birthdays

It was Aubrey (Devin), Isaiah, and Michelle's birthday.  We got to go and celebrate with them.  We love them and are glad to cheer for them in their lives.

Sam, Lance and Isaiah played magic to end the night.  They're so cute!

Elder!

 

Start of school

 

I knew this was coming, but we are officially out of Elementary School.  I loved ours, so it's bittersweet, but Seth is doing spectacularly in Jr High.  He's wasted no time meeting new people and learning jr high level homework skills. He's met a friend, Jace, that is in 6 of his 8 classes that turns out to be in our stake.  That was a fun connection. He's made it into the ALL english, math, science and History classes.  He also has percussion, pottery, stage craft and an exercise class.

Evelyn joined Sam in High School.  We drove up to the school and she said, "Woah, that's giant!" Sam was sweet and showed her around the school while I stood in line to pay fees.  She's not enjoying her AP Euro homework, but she loves her spanish class and has been invited to be in the special needs seminary class as one of the peer tutors. She loves orchestra and loves the school library more than anything else. 

My senior is stepping up in a big way.  He's taken over a lot of the after school shuttling for Evelyn and Seth.  He's taking the ACT again in a week to see if he can get a couple points higher.  He's taking Japanese, baking, cooking, AP music, music composition, Jazz band, Wind symphony, Seminary and an online Biology class at the college. He can't quite believe that it's his last year, but I'm proud of the man he's becoming and I'm cherishing every flute practice, every "Hey mom", every hug and knowing that he's going to be a man soon. 

Brickslopes

We haven't been able to go to this event for a while, so I was glad to be able to do it all together.  Sam and I definitely spent too much money, but it was fun.  They will all be birthday and Christmas presents so it worked out.  We bought Evelyn a lego set for $175 that online was going for $300. We bought one set that isn't available online anymore.  And one for $50 that was going for $70 online.  

This one was a pretty cool and comprehensive Harry Potter set up.

Someone did a Bridge run from Brandon Sanderson's books.... including Lupen as the armless waterboy.

One guy made weights.  Ada said they were very light, but they were fun.

The Les Mes one was the most artistic one that I saw.

The funnest exhibit was a giant lego castle made out of ginormous lego bricks.

This was a moment that my heart was very happy.  Seeing my little family happily holding hands and having fun.