Fall Fun

 We had an outdoor movie night for YW! I'm grateful to get to work with these girls. I am learning a lot!

I got to help with a few things for Les Mis!!!! Which Katelyn and Owen had been devoting hours each week to since the middle of August. So I got a few little sneak peeks of rehearsals:

This is One Day More, Katelyn and Owen are on the risers in the back. Even without mics or costumes, the set under construction, it gave me chills!

Costume sneak peek- Katelyn, Sulice, and Andrea trying on factory girl outfits.

Emma and Maris did the BYU race!  Emma ran the 400 and did well even though she was sick and had no energy- she went out strong and only struggled at the end because she felt sick- she literally laid down the rest of the day.  But she really wanted to do it, we had been practicing!  I was proud of her for taking 13th I think?

Look at her go!! She started out right in front!

I was so proud of her for finishing!!

Maris races like she was MADE to be a runner!!  She did amazing in the 800, shattering her practice PR by like 30 seconds!  She took 5th in 3:34.6, as a barely 8-year-old running against 7, 8, and 9 year olds. So amazing!

I also ran the 5k, and was thrilled to win my age group, I was the 7th woman!  And 4 of those ahead of me were high school runners which should't count haha. 21:48. I'm amazed I can still pump out 7:07 minute miles!!

Whitney had fall break in October and the other kids didn't, so one day after taking Emma to school, we went on a hike up Whiting Canyon in Mapleton. It was beautiful!!

Whitney loves photo shoots, so I was happy to oblige her haha.

On the last day before the first freeze, I harvested everything from the garden. All those pretty flowers and vegetables, and look at that giant watermelon!!  It grew under my magnolia bush!

I tried this for the first time-- brought my tomato plants inside and hung them upside down to ripen.  It worked for the small tomatoes, I got probably 30 more tomatoes in the next few days.  But the big ones didn't change at all!

I helped my new friend Ruth Walquist take pictures of the Les Mis cast for the program/senior posters. She took this one of me to test out her portrait mode and filters on her iPhone. So now I have this cute headshot haha.

They made one of these for each kid that we could share on social media/buy a yard sign of. So cool!

So here's Owen and Katelyn's famous pictures!

And last but not least, here's a few pictures from Katelyn's phone from this summer that I just stole from her; I'm too lazy to go back and put them on the right posts!!

On Eric's birthday, Whitney had a game up at Copper Mountain in West Salt Lake Valley. So I made him a watermelon cake to take along!  Literally cut a watermelon in that shape and brought candles haha.  it was perfect, it was hot so it hit the spot! And then here's Kate with the girls in her FSY group- late one night haha!

And 2 more from FSY- Katelyn with some kids from her group (Company?) and with her 2 roommates one night when they made a fort! Fun times that made her excited for college!