Halloween

Anna was Scooby Doo with a group  of her friends. I'm always amazed by her creativity. She made the ears herself. She went to the ward party on Friday night and went to a friend's party on Saturday.

I've been prepping my kinders for weeks on what "The Magic School Bus" is. Their excitement over holidays and spirt days is contagious. Almost as contagious as Benjamin's excitement over being the Magic School Bus. He claimed he had to wear a boot because I didn't pay a parking ticket, but with the Friz no way!

Olivia dressed up as a scarecrow and her friend dressed up as Kim Possible 😁

 

Junior year concussion continues

 Unfortunately Holman kept up the family tradition of getting a concussion junior year. He was involved in a five car collision. A distracted driver ran into a friend of his that he's dating, Georgianna, she got hit at close to 60 mph and she hit Holman, he hit the person in front of him and that driver hit one more car. It was a doozy. Our red truck is a goner. He had plans to graduate early but now he is not supposed to have more than two hours of school a day. Georgie and him are pretty pathetic. At least they have someone who can relate to their pain! They were supposed to go to homecoming together but instead they had a couch date.

Boys go to Mexico!

 Benjamin and the boys got to go to Mexico with President Curtis! They had a fun time playing tennis, golf, swimming in the resort pool and of course the ocean. Benjamin still has his boot, but managed to have a great time too!

Fall break just for me...

I was the only one that had Fall break this week. The boys have it the coming week and Anna just has two days. I did nothing. Absolutely nothing. In life sometimes that's what you need but apparently I just felt extremely lazy. I did some housework and I did some schoolwork. But it was a bit of a let down. Benjamin and the boys went to Mexico on Saturday so the girls and I went shopping for family picture outfits. It's an exhaustive process so we had to replenish and the Tucson famous TripleT Truckstop. It's a culinary experience worth ones time. The servings are ample, desserts are huge and the variety on the menu is impressive. Truly the highlight of my week off!

 

Anniversary bust

23 years of marriage has taught me 1) Marriage is a leap of faith. There are no guarantees. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Nobody knows the dance you do 2) sometimes you laugh and sometimes you cry, do it together 3) family traditions no matter how small or silly create stability children/ adults depend on 4) Find a common goal and dream it together. This brings me to my last lesson. When your husband tells you the softball championship game is on the first night of your anniversary getaway and that the team is one player short but he's ok with missing it say..ok. If you say, "no stay and play! We'll leave after" it might ruin the blessed weekend. Witnessing him rupture his achilles heel on the last inning was gut wrenching, almost as hard as hearing your angel orthopedic surgeon tell you surgery is recommended and absolutely no exercise for the next 6 months.When the weekend is shot, when setbacks, disappoints and crazy happens...5) get DQ

 

September 15th mud pit pool!!

 The pool was such a mess from the flooding. Frogs galore and algae. The only thing we could do was drain it and hope the monsoon season was truly over. We were able to pump most of it out but the bottom of the pool had a layer of sludge that we had bucket and wheel barrel out. At the end we had to shop vac out. It was stinky 😁We were covered in slime and stink!