9/2-9/4

With Delaney’s new ballet schedule she can go back to young women activities. ❤️ She’s not always stoked about it but hopefully is kind about it.

I love seeing my bratties in action. 

On Friday Adi and I got pre-college pedicures. ❤️  She’s so fun to hang out with!

I had been looking through my email and saw that we had free tickets to Kings dominion and then with Labor Day we had a long weekend and I told Lu they should come up, and they did! 🎉 (later I realized there were specific dates for the free tickets, but that’s another story).

Mia loved her first football game!

We sat with Chelsea and Brynn and passed Mia around and even though we lost, it was a fun night. 

They cheered with the opposing teams cheerleaders and I love love love when they do that!

Their coach does such a good job with their social medias. 

Friday night lights! And sometimes Saturday and sometimes Thursday. 🤣

Hocus Pocus

Spooky dinner in place of Disney dinners this month.

I wasn’t sure if I could pull this off in between sessions, but since Matt made the brownies and I skimped a little, we made it. And since it was conference we ate and watched conference and then our movie later. Because it’s good to be flexible. 

I didn’t feel like making frosting and hate canned frosting so I used the red piping gel I had from a previous Disney night. It’s whatever. 

Cucumber jalepeno Salem’s Spicy Spell - not good. 

It was rainy all weekend which is perfect conference watching and stew eating weather. 

Don’t mind the mess in the back. Disney dinners are a messy venture. 

Conference sockies!

I worked on my temple puzzle Laura got me for my birthday. ❤️

Started off busy but ended up being an amazing weekend. 

10/1-10/4

 On Thursday Alecia and I went to the temple. I’ve been finding it challenging to commit to a temple day because I’ve been feeling like a Martha, cumbered about by much. I don’t really know why, other than that I was out of town a lot this summer. Anyways, I know I never regret the temple, and I didn’t.

I ran my cheer and ballet duties that night and Frankie to piano, then had a meeting with the Baltimore coordinating council. It was actually a good meeting and I have my training material for when I train our coordinating council. 🤗

On Friday I actually got everything checked off my list. 🎉 And there were some doozies on there that I’d been transferring to the next day every day because I didn’t want to do them. Matt and I dropped a mattress at the dump and had a Burger King date then went to Frankie’s game. We got there early and we’re gonna walk, but then got enticed by the absolutely beautiful new ymca. I wish it was closer, I could totally be enticed. 

The Darrow’s came and we sat with them and the Kinney’s and it was fun, even though our team lost by like 30 points. 

It’s tough to cheer for a losing team, but she keeps smiling.. 🤷‍♀️

On Saturday I found out my pretend friend passed away from her als. Obviously I knew it was coming and she was ready because she was miserable, but it’s still awful. 

Speaking of people we miss. ❤️

On Saturday morning Frankie had her cheer brekkie. I took my griddle and made pancakes there because fresh pancakes are bomb. Then I stayed to help clean up and one thing lead to another and me and my 2 new cheer mom friends got to watch their practice. 

That meant that we didn’t get home till 12:15, and then Frankie had her last Andy’s drive at 1:00, so we put off conference. 

That morning I woke up before 5 because apparently there was a big fight at the hospital and a big family got into it with 3 security guards and then ran and the police helicopters were looking for them. At 4:45am and ongoing for 30’ish minutes. I get why it was necessary and it’s fine but it was loud and obnoxious. 

We watched the 4:00 session and it was wonderful and then later we watched an hour of the 12 session. Then the girls talked me into an 8:00 target run, which isn’t actually late, but feels late. 

I grabbed a shot of Delaney in her conference socks. ❤️

Today everyone slept in and I made pancakes and it was lovely. 

I also had a FaceTime date with Emmett. We all FaceTimed yesterday but it’s so hard to talk to one person, and I want to keep up with him. It was cute and he was chatty and didn’t want to get off, so that’s good. 

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.