Mom

My Mom had a knee surgery a few weeks ago.  While she was recovering, she stopped being able to keep anything down and ended up in the ER twice.  They found a tumor in her kidney and ended up taking it out.  It was cancerous, but thankfully an operation to get it out is all that they're recommending.  The type of cancer had something to do with cancer of the veins around the kidney.  She's slowly getting better and I've been so happy to spend time with her and my dad.

 

My Dad had a birthday

My Dad had a birthday and we were all able to be there.  I LOVED visiting with everyone and I'm excited as my parents start to get ready to be temple workers.  I'm proud of you my Dad!  I love you and I'm so grateful to be yours.

Ada, Jer, Sharon, Brad, Janelle, Seth, McKay, Dad, Devin, Mom, Casey (Sophie's nephew)

Sophie, me

Seth, Sam, Evelyn Vivien, Rae, Thea, Michelle, Aubrey, Jordan, Lance, Isaiah, Josh (Sophie's nephew)

Right before going to the park, all the cousins did a space adventure at The Space Place.  They had so much fun.  They didn't blow up, but half of them were stunned by a bad guy that interrupted their training. Evelyn wasn't too happy to be stunned on the ground, but it was pretty funny.... Seth was one of the security officers and accidentally stunned the medic.... And both the people that could have called another medic were both stunned.

I'm glad that they're not too old to be kids still.

Aunt Sophie took them all over to catch the football.  They had a blast.

 

The rest of the week

My Dad's book is on the shelves!  It's so exciting!

Ada went to a glow in the dark multi-stake dance. Neither of us knew that it wasn't a dress up thing... we got there and she didn't want to be the only one dressed up, so we put her hair in a bun and took out the flowers.  She went and had a blast.

Evelyn's sweet 1st grade reading buddy was taken home on hospice this week.  It's been sad, but I'm glad that Evelyn got to be part of her life.

Ada had two choir concerts last week.  One was during Evelyn's play, so I went to the other... which took place at Mountain View where I graduated from. I haven't been back for a while.   The chairs are nicer now, but the acoustics are still spectacular.

Young Women's was Hungry Hungry hippos.  It was so fun!

And Ada did a thing.  She chopped off her hair.  It's super cute on her and she likes not having to brush it as much because her hair is so thick.  She had so many people ask to cut her hair for her.  I definitely like taking her to my high school bestie, Mesh.  She does amazingly.

With Jer down, we had a very happy visit from Jacob.  He came to distract Jer for a little while.  It was fun to see him.  I haven't seen him for a few years.  He's now a manager at the pizza place that he introduced us to.  I'm so proud of him!

 

This week

 

These pictures were from our Seth date last week.

Jer ran into our friends, the Komen's, while doing the chocolate sale shopping for Jer's birthday chocolate dipping.

Ada at our youth karaoke night.

Evelyn's first day of babysitting.  Ada was asked to babysit and Evelyn went with her to play with the oldest kid especially.  They made cookies and I was told that they did an excellent job.

Evelyn's activity days turkey.

Ada caught Dad reading Calvin and Hobbes to the boys.

End of fall?

Hannah made this shirt and my kids gleefully saved it from the DI pile.

Evelyn made origami dragon heads for the daycare kids.  They and she had so much fun.

Today was the last soccer games for the fall season.  Ada and Sam had to miss theirs this morning, but it all worked out.  Ada had a work shift that no one could take and Sam still can't run for another week. Seth was a good little goalie and defender.  It was fun to watch him.  At one point, he got his goalie gloves stuck in the net and had to be untangled.  I love that he's on a team with Stephen, Jack, Dawson and Hyrum.  He's friends with each of them from different parts of his life.... they just all come together here.  Evelyn and Rose were cold and made an umbrella fort to block the rain and wind.

After soccer and chores, we went to the spanish ward's cultural night. It was fun that it was Cristina's family, Mayra came down with her family, Frederico's mom was there along with several sisters.  Evelyn and Seth even found that a couple of their friends from school go to the ward.  The world can be much smaller than we think when we reach out.  I love it!

Last night, Jer and Grandpa took Ada, Sam and Evelyn to Tchaikovsky's 5th at Utah Symphony.  The kids had fun and it's not often that you get a Grandpa-Daddy date.  Seth and I stayed home and got pizza. Then we watched a show, did scriptures and sent Seth to bed.

 

Life after Covid

So the kids and I had a stuffy nose 3 weeks ago, and because we were going to be seeing Amy the next day I went and got tested for Covid.  It came back positive and we stayed home for the next few days.  Seth, Evelyn and Sam were all congested, but all the tests came back negative except mine.  We stayed home anyways.  It was nice to have some down time.  The only difference for me between an allergy attack or cold for me was the fact that I had sensitive skin for a while.  My skin would get tingly or itchy randomly and I couldn't have my hair down on my neck while I was trying to go to sleep. I felt better within just a couple days and all our follow tests came back negative.... so either we had Covid or we had a cold and my test came back positive for a minute.  Then we got back to normal life again. 

We've had lots of snow lately.... it's crazy.

Evelyn and Dad learned a swing dance together at Evelyn's ballet studio Daddy-Daughter date.

We had a turkey in the freezer that Sam brought up when I asked him to get ground turkey.  Instead of putting it back in the freezer, we stuck it in the fridge and made a big yummy dinner a few days later.

Ada's and my YW's class was in charge of a getting to know you activity for our YW.  We have a lot of new people and it was fun.  Ada and her friend Dani were the MCs.

I can't get over how grown up this kid is looking.  Stop growing!

Our Stake had an ice skating activity this last Sat.  It was fun and proud Momma.... Ada and Sam are both fairly good ice skaters because we go at least once a year.  They both helped others that had never been ice skating before.

We also went to the Game Grid to play games with Uncle Seth.  We invited Ada's friend, Kooper, to play Magic with her since there were not enough Warhammer spots.

Seth played with the Magic players and then came to watch us.

Daddy-Daughter Date.  Evelyn was absolutely beaming.