Road Trip

One of Logan's best friends wanted to drive to Indiana to visit a ... friend ... and he recruited Logan and their other best friend to go with him. The three of them spent the day driving the 6-7 hours round-trip, riding RVs around the friend's property, watching her performance, and eating out. It was a great boys' trip! It felt very college to me, which I'm not quite ready for!

Updated Bulletin Boards

I've wanted to update the bulletin boards in our ward building for a long time, and some of the girls and I finally made it happen (along with a chicken nugget taste test because, fun).

Eli made the Team!

Eli tried out for his school's basketball team last year and didn't make it, and I thought that would be the end of that. But this fall, he decided he wanted to try again. He worked hard every day in our driveway, at our neighborhood park (which he would jog to and from), and even ran drills at the church a few times with his dad. He did everything he could do, including asking extended family on both sides to pray for him. He got tons of encouragement, and people all across the country were as anxious as we were to find out if he made the team...and he did! We were so proud of his hard work, and so pleased that in this case, it turned out the way we'd hoped it would. 

Jason and I have both been to most of his games (we each went to one alone), and each of his siblings came to at least one. It was a short season (no complaints from me) and the team didn't have a great record, but it was a good experience for him and I think he enjoyed it overall.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jake and I had the once-in-a-lifetime experience of seeing one of his favorite authors (Jeff Kinney) in person! Rather than a typical meet-and-greet, it was a silly show that was 100% perfect for his audience and it was fun to sit in the middle of 1,000 giggling kids and their parents.  

Ali

Cutest closeup.

Crumbl

Our friends own our local Crumbl Cookie Store, and one weekend they put out the call that they were slammed and would pay anyone who could come in NOW to help out. Jason decided to go (to help our friend) and I suggested that Logan go as well (as a potential way to get a job- since he'd been looking for one). They went and worked for a couple of hours, and when they were leaving Jason asked if they were hiring. "We're always hiring good workers," they said...and the rest is history. Logan works most Monday and Friday evenings, and Saturday during the day. It's actually kind of the perfect schedule for a High Schooler. He likes being busy and having a steady income, and we like the boxes of cookies he brings home (as do the people we minister to, Jason's coworkers, and our neighbors)!

Happy Halloween

We had a fun Halloween, and I even got a picture of all the kids together before they all went off in different directions! We had a ghost, a basketball player, a teenage boy, and Enid from Wednesday. Jake trick-or-treated with me and then with his dad, Logan went and watched The Sixth Sense with two friends who'd never seen it before, Ali went trick-or-treating with her friends and so did Eli. Happy Halloween!

Also, Ali painted this cute little pumpkin at Young Womens.