I've been subbing a lot. Thursday I spent the day in special ed. Friday Rob asked me to spend the day with him. It was not hard to convince me😊. We had a fun day. We went to the gym together and had lunch. 

Friday was crazy hair day. For both Tatum in Utah and Grace here in CA. Funny! I did not hear about the big day until 9pm the night before so we had to use what we had on hand. 

Coincidentally Dani and I both stuffed the girls hair into plastic cups! They both looked cute!


Friday night Ethan went to the homecoming football game. QH won and they had fireworks! How fun is that?!

This morning Grace made banana bread out of some bananas that were r.i.p.e! It turned out so very delicious!
Rob, Ethan and I went to the gym again. 2 days in a row baby!

We did some cleaning up, some football watching, and Rob and I went to the stake high priest meeting and dinner. It was pretty nice. President Crawley gave an awesome talk and the dinner was tasty and it was fun to see our friends.

Boo!

It was our turn to go booing. I really liked the way our little caldrons turned out. You can't see but there was a caramel apple kit in each caldron. We gave one to the Dunn's. They have four really cute little girls and I thought they would love the Halloween headbands! The other one we dropped off at the Sherwood's.
We had a fun combined activity tonight. We played jeopardy with fun clickers that Dan brought. The adult team won! After the points turned into "dollars" to bid on the treats at the end. The YM did a great job planning the activity and everyone had fun.

Monday

Last night Rob and I stayed up too late watching Madam Secretary. This morning I had to get up for seminary and to sub 3rd grade. The kids were really great so we had a good day in the classroom. 

Despite that there was an air of sadness in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. What is up with our world? It's so heart breaking. 
Tonight we had FHE. It was Ethan's turn to facilitate the lesson. Then we played spoons. For treat we lucked out and we were "Boo'd" so we had yummy cupcakes! 

October!!!

I love October. Fall is an awesome season. Here in the desert we don't see lots of signs of fall but the weather does get cooler. 

We watched general conference all weekend. It was amazing! I'll recap my favs tomorrow. 

After Grace and I played phase 10, then we went in the back and set up our hammock and relaxed with books and the small dog.

For dinner I did a low country shrimp boil. It was good but not awesome. Custard pie for dessert. Also good but not awesome. 

Rob and I took Z for a long walk, which was very nice. 

Talked to Val and Hannah on FaceTime. 

It was a nice weekend. 

saturday night

Yesterday was a quiet day.  Rob and I went on a date in the evening. Thai food.  Yumm.  

Also yesterday I noticed that my passport expires in December.  I don't know what made me check but you can't come back in the country if your passport doesn't have 6 months left on it...which begs the question what does that expiration date mean anyway??  Our trip is in November so I had to take care of it that day.  Luckily I didn't have much on my plate.  I had the missionary training to help at and carpool but that's it. Now it's in the mail and with any luck it will be back in 2 weeks.

Today was a different story though, as you can see. It is the beginning of general conference weekend.  My favorite.  We watched the morning session and it was amazing.  Then we had some schedule issues and ended up running here and there and I was late to the eye doctor but it worked out okay.  Rob and Ethan went to the gym and when I went to get them we noticed that my brakes were squeaking like crazy.  The brake pads were worn away so our whole afternoon changed and the boys ended up spending many hours getting it fixed.  I was able to watch the other session between trips to the store and cleaning up a little.  Also I have a cold or something because my sinus's are achy and my nose is stuffy and my chest tight.

the mechanic

 Ethan and Rob at the  gym.  They had fun together.  Both of them.  Which is awesome.  They don't get a long as well as they did when Bub was a little guy so I know it meant a lot to R to find something they can both enjoy.

I don't think the boys enjoyed this part of the day as well.

assistant mechanic

cute bear candle

I'm looking forward to a lazy lounging in the house day tomorrow.  Watching the last two sessions of conference . Enjoying each other's company.  Feeling better hopefully.

I ❤️ seeing pictures of life in Idaho! And then saving them to my phone! These girls are having a blast! 

Grace has been babysitting this week after school. She walks down to the elementary school and picks up Finley. Then they walk home and she fixes him a snack, helps him with his homework and then plays video games with him. It's been awesome. I wish she could do it regularly. I babysat after school when I was in middle school and it was a great way to earn money. And I loved those little kids so win win!
We had a fun mutual night this week. We made really cute conference caddies and then played spoons.  

Last week at mutual Jon Silva challenged the boys to give a Book of Mormon to a friend. He also gave each boy a book to carry in their backpack so they would be ready if the opportunity came up.  On Monday Brody gave one to a friend before school. The boys were hanging out and I don't know what precipitated the giving but they all saw. Then Kapps, another friend, said he'd like one. Ethan spoke up and gave him his copy. Later that same day E was talking with another boy who asked him why he couldn't play soccer on Sunday. Ethan told him about his commitment to honor the Sabbath day and gave him his for the strength of youth pamphlet.  The next day when I was picking up the boys after school Noah got to the car first. He told me he had given his book to Jill (a girl he likes). So in 2 days, 3 teenage boys shared 4 books with their friends. That is a miracle in the desert! They will grow up to be good missionaries!

Grace had a private clarinet lesson today. She's to the point where she needs that. She is going to be a good musician I think. She sounds really good. 

Stuff

Last night while Ethan was at soccer practice and dad was at the gym Grace and I watched counting on. Joy was shopping for her wedding dress. This led to Grace wanting to try on my dress, in case she wants to wear it someday. It was a little big but she looked very pretty and the day may come when it fits her. She is taller than me already but if she doesn't grow too much more it might work for my shopping hating girl. 

Or she might learn to love shopping. Who knows?

After the boys got back and showered we had FHE. We started a self reliance booklet that will fill up a month of lessons. It's all about getting an education, getting good jobs and being prepared to be financially responsible. 

I made pumpkin cookies to make up for our dinner fail:)

When you go to BYU-Siberia, and it's devotional day, you wear boots. Hannah on the left and Kenz on the right. Today Elder Renlund is speaking to them. Lucky girls!!

I've been looking forward to this week because it's TV premier week and I do love a little evening TV time. Tonight is the NCIS premier and I've been waiting for months to find out if Gibbs and McGee escape the guerrillas. Also there are a couple new shows I'm excited to see and some old favs. Can't wait for Madam Secretary.. We've been netflixing it the past month to review. 

This little dog loves to watch with me. 

Tomorrow mom and dad leave on their 3 week European cruise. So fun for them!!