This was a fairly calm week, but we did have a few things going on. Frank had to work last Friday night...he got home about 2:00 am on Saturday. In spite of that, he got up fairly early and went with Seth and I to help with a service project. It was our ward's "Day to Serve" and our project was cleaning up trash in the neighborhood where are church building is located. We were some of the first people to arrive and we were assigned to help clean up trash in a large open field. There really wasn't much trash in the open part of the field, but when we went into the trees on the edges of the field we found quite a bit of trash. We were able to fill up a very large heavy duty trash bag with the stuff we picked up.
That afternoon I met with two friends to practice ukulele. Then we watched the BYU football game which was fun since BYU won the game.
Sunday was fairly relaxing...my class presidency didn't have a meeting since a few of the girls couldn't come. We've been adjusting to the time change, but it hasn't been too bad. (I think the change in the spring is always harder for me).
The weather has been quite beautiful all week, with above average temperatures. It is going to get colder again tomorrow, though. It rained last night and this morning but now it is sunny and gorgeous again. I feel so fortunate that we are having such nice weather.
We played Jenga for family night activity on Monday. I took some pictures:
That last photo was taken right before the tower fell over, so you can see how tall it got. I think we did pretty well! Seth won the game since he was the last person to move a block without knocking over the tower. I was in charge of the treat and since we had some cream cheese and some pumpkin puree that needed to be used, I decided to try making pumpkin cheesecake. It turned out pretty well, I think. At some point later in the week I got the idea to put chocolate syrup on top. It was even better!
On Wednesday afternoon I had a YW presidency meeting. We have been trying to decide how to divide the classes next year...3 classes, 2 classes, or 1 class? We all prayed about it and pondered and we all got the same feeling about what we should do, so that's pretty awesome!
I had an online tax training course on Wednesday evening, so I missed most of the YW activity. The training was going over all the changes in the tax law since last year--good info to know! The training ended shortly before Seth needed to be picked up from his activity (they watched kids for the RS, who were also having an activity that night) so I went to pick him up. The YW had not finished their activity yet so I joined in for the end. One of the girls in my class taught drawing techniques. Even for the short time that I was there, I was super impressed! She did such a good job teaching and she is incredibly talented!!
Yesterday evening I took Seth clothes shopping again and we were able to get everything else he needs besides snow boots.
The boy we carpool to Seminary with didn't make it to Seminary all week (he is really busy with a school play right now) so we had to drive Seth to Seminary every day as well as pick him up afterwards. Frank took him a couple of times and took him the other days. Most days I dropped him off and went back later to get him...it's pretty chilly in the mornings so sitting in the car for an hour is not an attractive option. But yesterday I did stay and my friend Rebekah was there too so we got to talk while the kids were in Seminary...that was fun!!
I have continued to do a lot of reading. I read another Newbery winner this week which is called When You Trap a Tiger. It is actually this year's winner. I finished it yesterday. It was really good...I even cried a little near the end! Finishing that book means I am 2 books away from reaching my goal of reading all the Newbery winners. It has only taken me 20 years! 😃 It is good to get to this point, though, because now I will only need to read one per year to keep up. I have continued to listen to audio books too. I finished the biography of M. Russell Ballard, which I enjoyed immensely, and now I am listening to a book called Whole in Christ, which is also really good.
To finish up, here are a few pictures of a naughty squirrel making a mess on one of our neighbor's front steps, plus a few more of pretty fall colors:
Yes, he chewed a hole through the pumpkin and then started scooping out the insides. I think he was burrying seeds in another neighbor's lawn too, so she may get an unexpected pumpkin plant next year like we did once!
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