Sunday, October 26, 2025

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. 

Sunday, October 19, 2025

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.