Back to School

This was a big exciting week for us.  Eileen started Middle School - still at Quest - but she's officially middle school with a locker and different classes and electives and such.  As a big - middle - school kid, she started school on Monday - and she was so excited!!  

Tuesday was mostly just hanging out at home and doing a bit of clean up.  The Elders were scheduled for dinner, but were late because of some issues they had with appointments going long.  So while they came and ate - it was after the kids had gone to bed and we had to re-heat dinner for them.  

On Wednesday, the rest of the kids started school leaving James and I to ourselves again.  They also were excited to start school!  This was the second picture I took - the first one they just wanted to show off their back packs....  They had a blast, then after school was piano lessons.  Anna quit lessons - so it was just the 3 kids who had lessons.  We are going to have to move lessons to Saturday now so Eileen can do her swim team after school.  In the evening was cub scouts, young men for Dan, and Choir for me.  We were getting ready for our concert on Thursday.

On Thursday after school, we packed up picnic dinners and I took all the kids to my concert - Dan met us there after work.  And they listened to the fun outdoor concert (with just a little rain) and ate their dinner and had fun playing with the kids of other choir members.

Friday Eileen was going with the rest of the 6th graders to a ropes course.  Eileen however is a little afraid of heights.  Despite that she did all the activities even though they were scary for her!  I'm so proud of her willingness to face her fears and do hard things anyway!  Not even all adults are able to do that - She never complained about it - she just did it!  In the evening, we had some friends from church over for games.  We played a fun party game that they brought (I don't remember the name) but it was all about being silly and laughing at yourself.  Then we played Love Letters and Mille Bornes while waiting for brownies to get done.  Then I made a quick grocery trip for the kids.

Saturday we had our family trip to Cherry Creek Reservoir.  Veterans are free for the month of October, and the girls needed to plan a family event.  So the girls planned and packed and made lunches and snacks for every one and got it all ready and then after Eileen's flute lessons, we headed to the lake!  The kids had a blast - we sunscreened up repeatedly, but still came home with a few sunburns (especially Daddy!)  We all had a great time playing in the sand and playing in the water and eating yummy food and playing together.

In the evening, We got the kids dinner, then Dan and I left Eileen and Anna in charge and finally went out on our anniversary date.  We got dinner at a great little Chineese place, then we went to go see the new Star Trek.  We ran into the Doxy's there and had a great time watching the movie together!

Today was wonderful.  We had a nice walk to church.  Sacrament Meeting was great.  I got to teach both my usual Sunday School class and then the Beehives during 3rd hour - both lessons about the family being eternal.  Both were great discussions.  The beehive class was a lot of fun!  It was a bit hard to keep them on topic, but still a great class and a lot of fun!  The Bishop's stopped by before choir to drop off a water bottle that Christina had borrowed.  Dan watched their kids for them while we were at choir, and they gave me a ride there and back.  Then we read scriptures and put the kids (and Dan) to bed a bit early :)  Now it's my turn too!