October was a wild ride, but we survived. Here’s my attempt to catch-up via
crummy cell phone pictures…
October
6: I’m
pretty sure our house has been in a near constant state of disaster ever since
school started. There seems to be
messes everywhere. I’ve been so
close to calling in professional help – no joke. I feel like we’ve been drowning in disorganization. I don’t put away laundry or clean up
kid's rooms – that’s the kid’s responsibilities. Which means things usually look like this…
This is several days after we returned from Utah
and Abigail still hadn’t unpacked her suitcase.
October
7: Drew
was featured on the YMCA website for his awesome craft skills today.
Jason had a fun scout activity at the Cedar River
Watershed in North Bend. I was
able to catch the end of it.
It was neat to see Rattlesnake Ledge from the other
side of the lake. That’s quite a
climb to get to the top, but the views never get old.
October
8: Just
getting a drink in his choo-choo undies.
Drew is still running around in just his big boy underwear most days.
Justin and I went out on a date tonight – a little
shopping in Tukwila (with returns of course) and then we finally settled on
dinner at Famous Dave’s. I was
excited because I knew I had a free dessert coupon on an old receipt – turns
out I’d been carrying around that receipt since 2011! We decided on Banana Pudding – a surprising variation for my
chocolate-loving self – it was divine!
So worth the five years!
October
10: Several
months ago one of the T-Mobile Tuesday freebies was a free t-shirt. The designs were a bit tacky since
their purpose is of course to advertise for T-Mobile. We got a couple for our family and then Justin sent a shirt to
two friends – Benjamin and Tolman as a joke. Benjamin finally got his t-shirt today and sent Justin this
awesome text.
October
11:
Another Tuesday – another T-Mobile freebie. This time it was two cookies per line at Subway. Yum, yum! Thanks T-Mobile!
October
17:
Justin’s official deadline was today and after working lots and lots of
overtime the last several weeks he left work early so we could celebrate. He brought home pizza for us gobble up
before heading to the movies to see Stork. We had a few free movie tickets and a free popcorn. (Abigail was at volleyball practice and
had to miss the fun). The movie
was really cute and it was so nice to do something fun together.
October
19: Last
month at pack meeting each boy was given a small brown bag filled with random
knick-knacks and an additional list of supplies they were encouraged to use
from around their house to complete the “Genius Project”. Their assignment was to create something
from those items. The more items
you use from the list the more points you get. Jason’s “Genius Project” ended up being in the top three
tonight and his reward was the RIP trophy pictured here – yippee! Jason was pretty stoked to have
won. We definitely didn’t put
together the most creative display, but we used every possible item on the
list. Way to go, buddy!
October
20: The
older seminary classes started a “Feast Friday” tradition a few years ago and
Abigail took it upon herself to start the same tradition in the freshman
class. We sent out a signup for
the families to pick a week (or two) to bring in food for class on Friday
mornings. This was our week and
Abigail requested homemade cinnamon rolls – I sent her this picture today
before I’d frosted them, telling her it was killing me to make such deliciousness
and not get to enjoy them all myself.
The sacrifices we make for our kids!
October
21:
Megan’s Mom sent me this picture of the girls playing at the football
game tonight.
This was their last game of the season that the
band had to play at – hooray!!
Despite the smile on Abigail’s face she hasn’t enjoyed pep band at all
this year. Her schedule has
already been so packed that having to give up five Friday nights and a handful
of additional rehearsals after school hasn’t been fun for her. Not sure if she’ll play band next year
as it also conflicted on several occasions with volleyball.
October
22:
Tonight was homecoming. Abigail was originally thinking she would go to the dance
with friends, but thankfully we were able to come up with a fun alternative and
avoid the whole whoopla of a formal school dance. She’s too young for all that in my opinion anyhow.
The original plan was for the girls to go bowling
in Bellevue. The girls did some
shopping at the mall while we waited for a lane to open. Turns out the prices for bowling go way
up on a Saturday night so the girls decided in the end to skip the expense of
bowling a game and eat and shop instead.
Since I was just the chauffeur, I waited in line at Cheesecake Factory
for an hour while the girls had fun walking around the mall.
After dinner we came back to our house for a movie
and an ice-cream sundae bar. Fun
times for a great group of girls!
October
25:
Enjoying a quick snuggle with my babes
Justin and I watched a few “classics” from my youth
this week (thanks, T-Mobile Tuesdays!).
The first, “Little Shop of Horrors” which was much more bizarre and
disturbing than I remember. But as
we watched it I knew there was a point in my life I’d seen it so many times
that I had much of it memorized.
The other movie was this past weekend – one of my
favorites, “Some Kind of Wonderful”.
I loved that movie so much that I even bought the soundtrack. Can’t believe this was the first time
Justin had seen it. I still think
it’s pretty great.
