8/30-9/1

 We love pictures of our people!

That Sunday (the 30th) I had a training at the Visitors Center with Aaron Sherinian, the head of church communications. I was so excited to receive training and I’ve heard such good things about Brother Sherinian. DC North was in charge and I helped Ginny with refreshments and made a nice charcuterie board and spinach dip. 

The training was good, but it wasn’t what I thought, which I don’t even know what k thought it would be.But it was all about the salt lake temple celebration and the big announcement made on Tuesday about the theme (Rejoice in Christ!) and the tickets. 

Ginny and I were super rookie and Aaron didn’t show up until after we were already supposed to have started (dc traffic) but we did it and we learned a lot and Ginny and I drove together so it wasn’t bad. 

We had a meeting the next day to talk about next steps and it was writing emails and announcements and I had a long call with Lanna from DC South and it was a little bit of busyness in the lead up to the announcement.

 D started ballet that day with our carpool. Julie drives them to and from Monday and Tuesday, I drive to and from Wednesday and Thursday, Haley’s mom picks up Friday, and Julie and I alternate the Friday drive home.

One of the things Adi wanted to do was to hike St. Mary’s Lake, so i skipped inklings and we hiked the whole darn thing. 

And we somehow made a wrong turn at the end and added another whole mile. 😫

It was a lovely hike and one of my best girls.

Thankful for healthy bodies!

8/27-8/29

 No pictures and no recollection of  8/27-8/28. I know Adi had an appt and then we went shopping. Adi and I had the best summer together. We really enjoyed spending time together when the girls went back to school.

On Saturday I made an Alice in Wonderland Disney dinner. And tulip deviled eggs are hard to make. 🤣👆🏼 

Carter came over and man that is a weird movie. 

And one of the most involved dinners because of all the things to make. Chicken salad sandwiches, cream cheese and cucumber tea sandwiches, deviled eggs, cupcakes, cookies, ham and cheese sliders, and fruit skewers.  

It was all super tasty though!

Delaney has kept in contact with her FSY friends and one of them invited her to a dance up in Oakton in northern Virginia. 

Delaney doesn’t usually want to do a lot of social things, and she wanted to go, and she’s the lucky little baby of the family with old parents that have time, so we made a date night out of taking her. 

It was a western theme and she went all in. We weren’t sure she’d want to stay the whole time, but we took a gamble and went to the worlds most expensive movie theater (our cheap little country bumpkin selves were so surprised at the costs!) and had a lovely date night. 

Thankfully our precious little sour patch kid had a blast and it was a great night for all of us. 

8/26 - first day of school

 Delaney wanted a before school haircut and the girls wanted a sisters day, so they combined the two. And Delaney learned a tough lesson about haircut woes, one we’ve all had to learn. She hates her haircut but was being a good sport about it all.

We didn’t start seminary till after Labor Day so the wake up wasn’t too too bad. 

Frankie was not into it. 🤣

But a totem? Yes please!

Delaney has been a girl of many different styles. Her pink cowgirl boots were my favorite, but she’s also done handkerchiefs in her hair, slides for shoes every day, and now she’s in her emo phase. 

I am banking on this phase passing too. Christian’s did. 

Last year she did the Lorax dance so I made her do it again. 🤣

Frankie is a junior! Only 2 more years!

None of us can wait till she gets her license!

The cheer coaches put together a first day of school collage. 

For my birthday Adi got me 3 acupuncture sessions. I can’t remember if I’ve written about that before, but it was so thoughtful and truly not something I’d ever get for myself. My 3 bigs are such good gift givers. 

I wanted to see what it looked like so I snapped my back as best as I could. See the 2 in my ankles?

That was the day Dolly died and the whole world lit up pink. 🩷 Thankfully i had a few dolly shirts from when we went to Dollywood, so I was ready. 

Why does Henry look so giant?

And a full spooky moon for good measure. 

8/24-8/25

 We woke up early early and got on the road to make it home in time for Delaney’s open house at 12:30. And we did it! Adi took Delaney and had a good time showing her around the school. Alecia let me know that Delaney made our local online newspaper. 😍  

We miss our SC crew!

On Tuesday the day before school started we had our annual ice cream date with the Darrow’s. Everyone’s schedules are crazy so we couldn’t get to Mrs. Moo’s, but we enjoyed our Sweet Frog all the same. 

And now the middle ladies are away at college. 😭

I don’t remember what else we did. Maybe father’s blessings? But I think we did those another night. 

I guess that day I did save some young women pictures from Sarah Cox. 

Everyone loves seeing what their kids are up to!

And everyone loves when cute missionaries come back to visit!

8/23

 We went to church that morning but none of the boys friends were there and none of the kids were running around the green after church, so the magic of last time wasn’t repeated unfortunately.

Sometimes it’s hard to be a little sister. 

The boys got haircuts and looked so handsome. 

Uncle bubba sends the best gifts!

We’d brought our yum box with us and enjoyed it together. 

And aunt D practicing her diapering newborn skills. 

I put Henry to bed that night and he was not happy about it. He never is. Whenever I’d put him to bed he’d get really mad and not want me to hold him, so I’d lay him down, then he’d be so mad that he would finally let me hold him and rock him to sleep. 

Since we were leaving the next day we had to get all of our last precious baby cuddles in.

We did a soda taste test that D ran for us. Adi won and the rest of us tied. Damian and I guessed exactly the same and Lu was a few off from us, but with the same amount wrong. 

I always go into taste tests so confident but never do great. 🤣 

We tried not to stay up too late, but we love each other and have so much fun together.