November

 Christmas tree hunt! We have been going to the same area, up Mirror Lake Highway, for four or five years. This year has the least snow ever! There wasn’t none. We always go the same weekend and some years there have been several feet of snow. Not this year. This morning we’ve finally had our first snow of the year. On November 30th. It’s wild. 

Spencer brought his fly rod and fished while we searched, haha! 

Genevieve put some ornament boots on Remi. Haha! She was like stop torturing me! 

Beautiful Christmas tree this year! Nice and full. We found one that had essentially a second tree growing up from the same root, which makes it extra thick. We’ve had some skimpy trees in the past. This one is lovely. 

Bill and Chloe and I rode Trax up to downtown to see the Christmas lights at Gallivan Square and Temple Square. It was beautiful as always. 

On Temple Square they had a bunch of trees lit from below instead of wrapping the trees with lights. Really cool looking and so much simpler to set up. 

We stopped in the Conference Center to check out the new artwork and decorations. 

This tree was massive. But it could have been twice as tall! It was a poinsettia theme. So pretty. 

I finally got some of my friend’s ceramics art. She and I were roommates my freshman year of college and she’s so gifted at ceramics. Her website, juniperandlark.com, has such beautiful pieces. I got this flower and she sent the plate too! I got some Christmas trees too that are adorable. I need to take a picture of them. I want about ten more flowers!

My one picture from Spencer’s Disneyland band trip.

Chloe has gotten into the loose jeans trend. So cute. 

Genevieve and her “pet” cockroach. 😆

The poinsettias from Spencer’s band fundraiser were so pretty and so unique. 

In process of refreshing this old pantry into a shelf for Chloe. The doors are long gone, and I was going to donate it, but she asked me to redo it for her room. 

Chloe’s lucky day. My wool sweater got dried. It used to fit me like this, hahahaha. 

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I tried to get a good family picture for the front of my album. I’m so amused by Aaron’s “picture face” and Genevieve’s interpretation of standing close together. Good times. 

Fall Break

 I took most of fall break off. I had some budget work to do, but the rest of the week I was able to be off, which was really lovely. We mostly stayed home, but we did get our one day with Grandpa Doug to go on a hike on Antelope Island. For all the years I’ve lived in Utah, I’ve never gone to Antelope Island, which seems pretty ridiculous. We had a great time. We summited one of the mountains there. It was steep and fast, but fun. 

Bill and I have been working on a couple home projects. One, our storage room turned exercise room. Two, built in shelves in our under the stairs Harry Potter closet. I got a ton of progress done on the shelves. This was an amusing trip to Lowe’s for some trim. I could have driven the van, but I took my car instead and ended up getting 12-foot long trim. I made it work. Hahahaha!

The detail work is all that is left for this section. 

Yesterday was another band competition. I helped out moving props and ended up on the field holding one of them to make sure it didn’t blow away. This competition was at American Fork HS. It had quite the beautiful view from the stands! 

A few shots from behind the prop. 

Spencer is in the middle tower. I love their show so much. They haven’t gotten as high of scores as they feel they deserve, but they’re putting such good work in and it’s incredible to watch. They bumped up this year into the highest, most competitive division, so the competition is intense. It’s so cool that we have this opportunity by virtue of the high school we attend. 

September and October

It’s been a bit since I posted any pictures. Last week I wound down the tennis season. This is one of Aaron’s matches.

Spencer has been hard at work with marching band. He’s had some wild experiences. The his is a competition at Utah State. It was good and raining the whole time. 

The costumes this year are kind of wild. Definitely not classic marching band uniforms, but they go really well with their program. 

They look so good on the field. 

I headed out to Dover at the end of September for my nephew’s baptism. Mom and Grandma came with me. I just stayed for the weekend, but they stayed for ten days. It was a great time. We went canoeing. 

The baptism was lovely. I played piano for it, which was nice. 

I took Chloe and Aaron to a Classic Skating night this last week. Always a good time. 

Bill and I took advantage of having the day off this Monday while the kids had school, huzzah! We hiked to Lake Blanche. It was gorgeous. 

Bill and Spencer went hunting yesterday. No luck, but they hiked a lot! 

Chloe and I went to a Daybreak Pumpkin celebration. It included giant pumpkin racing, a farmers market, cardboard canoe racing, portapotty racing, haha! We found some fun stuff to buy and laughed a lot at the races. 

I kind of love our Halloween decorations this year. Genevieve had opinions about what we should have done I think it turned out well. 

 

Lots of fun activities

 Red, white, and blue day for band at the football game. 

Latest paint by number done. Maybe I should have taken the picture on a less vibrant background, haha! 

Bill and I went to the Queen Tribute concert in Daybreak this week. It was fun. And more fun than the concert was running into my old roommate from get this, 22 years ago! She recognized me faster than I recognized her, but it clicked after chatting for a few minutes. We lived together just for one summer. Such a fun blast from the past. 

We got to go to a Bees game this week too. Actually two! This one we had great seats some friends shared with us since they couldn’t go. The tickets are a little pricier than I’d like, so we actually haven’t gone to one yet. This was super fun. 

My sister in law had some friends cancel going to a concert with her, so she invited me and Genevieve instead and we had a great time Saturday night at Genevieve’s first concert! 

Marina put on a fantastic show. 

This was amusing. We came across some ducks walking down the road towards us instead of crossing. Bill actually hopped out and herded them across so us and the white car could drive through. The ducks were pretty cute! 

We sat on the grass with a bunch of friends at this baseball game. Didn’t see as much of the game, but we had a great time with all our friends!