Teenage Adventrues

We've had a busy week.  Evelyn has had her usual marching band and tutoring and school work and friends.  The kids had no school on Friday, so Evelyn spent the day at the pumpkin patch with friends.  They had a great time together and posted some cute pictures!  

Water Polo all week with our last home game on Thursday.  Since it was our last home game,  it was also senior night.  It was fun celebrating these amazing kids and all they have done!  They played well, but the reffing was all over the place.  Dan helped out at the table and so naturally it was the best run table ever.  :)  Our boys were playing with no subs at all, so they were all tired, but they played well and the girls had a rough game with the rough play, but they were amazing.  

We are dog sitting Sandi's dog Popcorn while she is down in CA doing an Iron Man.  As of right now, she is still going strong!!  David loves Popcorn and she is very sweet with him - but she is having tummy troubles :(  

Thursday night was the Trunk or Treat at the school.  David went with his friend Paxton and met up with Dan and James there.  He had a blast running all over and getting candy and wearing their costumes.  

This weekend was Homecoming.  Mountainside won their homecoming game - Evleyn was of course playing in the marching band and Dan was helping out with the pit crew.  Then on Saturday was the Homecoming dance.  Natalie and I worked to help her get ready.  Though, I'm not sure we were much help.... (at least I wasn't)  But thankfully she is naturally beautiful and looked great!  

And here she is in the dress that Anna made for her!  

Saturday was busy with water polo and marching band stuff plus Evelyn's homecoming and Dan and I going on a date.  But it was a wonderful busy

Today in church was the primary program.  The kids did an amazing job and we had a fun time partying it up after during second hour.  Ward choir is now getting into the full swing of Christmas music which is always wonderful.  Stake Choir was also amazing.  The songs are coming together so well!!  It is so neat to hear them come together and make beautiful music!!  

Competitions and other fun things

We've had a busy week.  Aaron and I have had water polo all week - plus we had a game Tuesday night.  The boys lost and the girls won, but they both did well.  

Evelyn has been busy with marching band and tutoring.  Plus she had a marching band competition on Saturday - they won their competition!  

Wednesday night, the youth had an activity planting flowers at the temple.  It was a great service project and they had a great time.  

On Saturday, Dan participated in his first Cross Fit competition.  He and his partner competed in several rounds trying to get as many reps and as much weight as they could.  Dan did amazing and he and his partner took first in their bracket!  

Dan had a great time, and David and I had a great time watching him and cheering him on and meeting some of his cross fit friends!  

After, David and I headed to the park to meet up with some friends for an informal pumpkin patch.  David had fun carving a pumpkin and playing with friends - but he was a bit groggy while we were there, having fallen asleep in the car on the way.  

After, I took David to a birthday party (yes another one) and then Aaron and I went to Parkrose to play water polo.  We had a great time!  The parents of one of my players was there at the end for a LOWPO thing after, and it was fun to see them!  Then I picked up David and grabbed some Chick-fil-a for dinner and headed home.  We did dinner and scriptures, then the kids had an activity and a dance and I went to open polo.  

Busy!!!

We've had a busy week with school, water polo, work, church and life in general.  David has a busy social life, Evelyn has marching band and tutoring and friends.  Aaron and I have water polo.  Dan and I have work.  The kids are all getting excited about Halloween and costumes,  Eileen is making mouse costumes for the stuffed mice!  David is always asking to wear his costume, but I'm making him wait.  

We had two water polo games this week - Tuesday against Hillsboro and Thursday against Westview.  We were missing players at both games which made them rough.  

The kids were off school Friday, but I still had work, plus an extra shift up at Sunset.  But it was nice to sleep in a bit.  

Saturday was crazy.  Dan wanted to use the last nice day of the year to get some jumps in, so he went up to a new jump site and spent the day jumping out of planes!  I hosted a team breakfast where we had pancakes and fruit and fun.  Then David had 2 birthday parties to go to.  Aaron was given his first assignment to help drive David to his second party since I had a scrimmage at MAC.  The scrimmage was a lot of fun and lots of people.   Plus I got to see and chat with and play with some people I don't get to see all that often - and even better, there were actually quite a few women there!  It's always nice to not be the only female! :)  Then I met up with David at his second party to hang out with the parents and chat while the kids played.  Then we had some quick time for scriptures before bed and Open Polo.  Open polo was a lot of fun and had a great turn out!  

Sundays are always busy - with Church and choir, and stake choir and Encore and all sorts of fun stuff.  The choirs are sounding good and it's been awesome working with them!  We also got to chat with Anna for a bit.  She's doing well and keeping busy!  

General Conference... and yes, more water polo

We had an exciting week!  Aaron passed his drivers test this week.  We still have to take him to the DMV to get his actual license, but the test is done and soon he will be on the road!  

We had a busy week with school and friends and sports and band.  Evelyn is tutoring her friend again this year and it seems to be working well.  Plus she has marching band stuff most days.  She works so hard and they are so good!  It's also been fun getting to listen to her practice her Encore stuff!  

David loves to scramble eggs, so on Saturday for breakfast - he cooked up some eggs for us.  It was fun having a quiet little breakfast with him!  

This weekend was General Conference.  It was a fun weekend full of amazing messages and yummy food.  Anna got to enjoy Conference at Paul and Candace's home with lots of cousins! Thankfully Paul and Candace took and shared pictures!  

This weekend was also the boys BSD water polo tournament.  They had 4 games over the couse of 2 days.  They lost them all, but there was some good growth happening!  The games were also spread apart enough that we got to listen to some conference and I got to play some water polo too.  I got to go to Parkrose to play with masters and had a great time - then in the evening, I went to Open Polo which was also great - we had a great turn out and it was a really fun group!  

James decided that during General Conference, he wanted a project to work on - and he decided that he wanted to make a wooden sword.  He cut it out, sanded it down and painted it, then sewed a sheath for it.  Then he made another one... He is making them to look like specific swords of characters in manga that he likes.  Also to match the constume he wants to wear.  

This week I took Aaron, David and Eileen to get costumes.  We all had fun looking around the Halloween store and picking out costumes to wear for Halloween.