Sterling Scholar

Sam applied for Sterling Scholar.  He's competing against 5 others for one spot.  It's a hard one to earn, but I'm sure glad he's trying.  Both because it's good to aim up, but also because I got to hear his sterling scholar recital.  He's getting so good!

 

October Misc

 

Sam's pastry class made bread.

Sam's monkeys were excited that he came home from school.

Sam making his Halloween costume.

Seth played prelude in Sacrament meeting.  He was so nervous but did it!  He played clearly and loud!  It was awesome.

Valynn had an extra ticket to Adamm's Family musical.  It was so fun and it was great to have one on one adult time.

Seth made a suit that he could hide in and pretend to be a box in the corner.  It started as a nerf gun war and turned into a camouflage thing.

Sam and I got to be the organist and music director today.  That was so fun!

Sam's soccer team.  We missed most of his season and definitely missed the picture day.  We missed Seth's picture day and about half of the games.  It just wasn't a priority this season.

Sam's band concert photos from my phone

It was my parents' 48th anniversary, but they came to support Sam with his final year of high school band.  He really is very enjoyable to listen to.  He played with his band (picolo), a combined one and an ensemble group of 4 (flute).

 

Evelyn Orchestra

Here are the pictures of Evelyn's orchestra concert from my phone.  It was cold and rainy, but she was bright and smiley.  Grandma Wilcox was able to make it to this one.

She was so cute.  She saw me and knows that it's hard to get a picture of her behind everyone so she paused with me in view and waited for me.  It was perfect.

 

 

Homecoming

Sam and his cute homecoming date.  They had fun, but they both were busy during the day.... her with a service project and him with digging sprinklers at Bear Lake.  Instead of a day date, they just met up at the dance.  They found some friends and danced for a while.  I think Sam was dehydrated from the day though because he had a headache part of the way through.

 

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. 

Grandpa's birthday and photos from my phone

 

Jer took us to the stake center to fold the flag.  That was fun.

Ada's libraries were installed in the parks!  They look great.

My friend's cat kept smelling me and staring at me.  It was funny.

I got to visit with my friends from High School. Rebecca, Sherry and Sharon.  I loved it.

Ada and Jer got to do the mud run with the Hansens.  They sent me some awesome after photos when they were done.  I'll have to get them from my phone.

We got to celebrate my Dad's birthday together with dinner, a game and good conversation.  

My cate kept walking under my stained glass window and I loved all the colors.

My girls sang the camp song with the YW.

Sharon made this cute cake for Dad.

Graduate

We ran into our neighbor/friend/co FBLA and took a couple of pictures together.

She graduated high school and MTech a week from the other.  Good luck on her national test!