This last week

This last week, since I was working, I had a friend that wanted to sit in on one of my Uncle Brad's classes with me.  I showed up and they didn't.... but I loved the class. I didn't know it was a Book of Mormon class and the lesson just coincided on the Book of Mormon chapters that I had been reading this week for a YW's challenge.  He also talked about being a mission president and getting his mortgage covered.  I giggled a little because I was renting a room in his house to help cover his mortgage.

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We got to go the New World Symphony with Joseph Tarkington, Grandpa and Grandma, Amy and Jon.  It was fun.  I was impressed with it.  It was the best live version that I've been to.

Sunday, we took a bike ride almost down to the lake.  There was some construction so we only made it 8 miles or so.  It was fun. 

I helped at the school with the vision screenings.  We finished just before Seth's lunch time, so I got to sit with him and watch him chatting with his friends.

Sam has been ref for a couple of games lately.  I'm impressed with his growing confidence.  He had to tell one of the coaches that he was out of line and to cool down. 

This was my, "come clean up your crap" pile.  I told the kids to come put away their stuff and I thought it was so funny.... books, head phones and a sword.

Evelyn got to take her friend, Rose, to ballet with her.

Our tree actually produced pears!

Seth's soccer game.

Sam's soccer game.

Sam the ref.

 

last week

 

The Clingers asked us over to watch Sky High with them.  It was fun and we had Hero sandwiches for dinner.

Then we helped my parents get their fruit trees ready for winter.

Jer built a laptop charging station.  I'm half impressed and half annoyed.  I didn't want all the kids to have their own laptops, but the school insisted on it.  So they come home and unless they're doing homework, they are docked here.

Dad and Seth watching Bolt.

My Nellie had her birthday!  We were happy to spend the evening with her.

Dragonfly found me at Seth's soccer game last week.

Evelyn is my cute little baker.

Labor Day weekend

We took Saturday off and went to the Minerva Tiechart art exhibit at the Church History Museum.  I didn't realize that she'd painted over 1000 paintings throughout her life.  Look up her blurb on Wikipedia.  It's fascinating. 

I especially loved her mom with babies in one of her early paintings.

They had a drawing corner to draw like Minerva Tiechart.  This was my chicken. The other one is Ada's cow.  She's not to happy with it, but I think it's cute. Evelyn made a chicken too, but she took it with her and I didn't get to take a picture.

Current Salt Lake Temple progress.

Then instead of dinner, we all got cheesecake from the cheesecake Factory.  We'd never been there before.  It was really good.

 

Labor day

I had daycare on Labor Day.  That didn't stop Sam.  He and his friends planned, created characters and played their first D&D session together. It was fun. Seth kept bringing the cat in though.  They aren't allowed inside... but one of the times I walked through the kitchen this was what I found.

Sam also wanted to start learning to drive.  I took him to the parking lot and started explaining how things work and spent a few minutes making rounds.  No one was around the church on Labor Day so it was perfect. 

Starting with Sam and going around the table.... Sam, Seth, Benjamin, Blake, Parker, Piper, Milo, Ian, James

 

Sunday

These 4 cousins all celebrated their 14th and 16th birthdays!  I snagged this picture from my Mom.  We got to go up and visit with them for a while on Sunday.  It was a hard to get up there, but we did.  We were in traffic for 2 1/2 hours instead of 1 1/2. Then Jer fought some strong winds as an aftermath of a severe thunderstorm.  It was worth it.  It was fun to see everyone.

 

Picture catch up

These happened earlier in the year... but I just saved them off of Jon Hansen's facebook.  We got to go to the Symphony with the Hansens and Grandpa.  We also got to go to the movie Up with Mariah for her birthday.  That was fun.  I believe I wrote a post about it.  This is just the group photo that we took.