Last Saturday our ward had a Trunk or Treat / Halloween Carnival; the YM / YW were in charge so it was pretty busy for me. We got there early to set up our carnival games (and Seth was helping to set up the haunted house). During the carnival itself, I helped run the "cupcake walk". All the kids seemed to have a good time and it was fun to do that for them. The youth all did a great job helping.
My girls!:
Meanwhile, Frank spent the day in NC helping / visiting with his parents. He had a busy day, too.
When we got home from the carnival, I stayed up pretty late watching the first half of the BYU / Virginia football game. I just couldn't stay awake past halftime. When I woke up Sunday morning I checked the score and I was thrilled to discover BYU won the game by quite a bit, since BYU was actually behind at the end of the first half. I probably saw the worst part of the game for them which is too bad but I enjoyed watching all the highlights.
On Sunday we had our usual church meetings. Since it was a 5th Sunday, all the youth met together and I helped with the lesson...just a short part of it. Frank left NC for the drive home fairly early on Sunday morning so he arrived home around 2:00, while we were at church. It's nice to have him home again! That evening was Halloween and we debated a bit about whether or not we would hand out candy (we had plenty of leftovers from the Trunk or Treat). We finally decided to turn on our porch light and to answer the door if anyone came, but we didn't open the door or sit outside like we usually do. We don't get very many trick or treaters in our neighborhood anymore anyway. Last year, with all the Covid stuff, we only had 2 or 3 kids come by. This year was better, as I expected, but we still only had about 25 trick or treaters come. Seth enjoyed handing out candy to the kids who came.
When Frank came back from NC, he brought a quilt that his mom made for us. She made it a few years ago but it wasn't big enough for our bed so she took it back and added more to it so now it is big enough.
The rest of this week has honestly not been all that eventful. Frank has been pretty busy with work, Seth with school, and me with YW stuff and household chores, but we haven't done much out of the ordinary besides taking Seth shopping last night to get some clothes. He is growing like a weed and needs lots of new things already. Last night we were able to find him some new Sunday shoes and a white dress shirt. We still need to get him a new coat, winter boots & gloves, some long sleeve tshirts (he's basically grown out of all his long sleeve shirts since last winter), and a couple more pairs of jeans.
For my YW class activity this week we learned how to knit. We were going to learn how to crochet too, but we ran out of time. The YW president knows how to knit and we both know how to crochet. (Actually, I used to know how to knit, but it's been so long that I've forgotten everything I ever knew). The girls were good sports and really tried hard to learn...and did pretty well for their first attempts!
I was supposed to have a presidency meeting yesterday but we ended up having to postpone it until next week. However, I had some things I've been wanting to discuss with the president, so I we talked on the phone for about 45 minutes. It was a good productive discussion though!
I did quite a bit of reading this week. I finished the book for book chat (The Midnight Library)...it was really good; had a good message. Then I started reading another Newbery winner called Hello, Universe, and I finished that book last night. It was a really good book too.
Mostly I feel like I got caught in a time warp this week because I don't feel like I got a lot done besides the basic chores and I feel like I should be getting a lot more accomplished. The days just whiz by and I don't know where they go!
As I mentioned above, the weather got a lot colder here the last couple of days. I turned the heat back on on Sunday and we've had freeze warnings the last 3 nights. It's getting into the low 50s during the days and down below freezing at nights. It has been mostly sunny so it looks like it's going to feel nice until I go outside and realize how cold it is! It's not really too bad though and next week is going to be a bit warmer again. All things considered, it's pretty nice weather considering it's November. It's just harder to get out of my warm bed in the morning when I know it's going to be cold out there. The leaves are turning colors rapidly now and lots of leaves are starting to fall also.
That is everything I can think of to tell you about us this week.
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