I made friends with a woman from India, whose son is in Nora's kindergarten class. We both tend to help out at the children's class culminating activities. She said she moved to American from India three years ago so I asked her if she knew how to cook Indian food. She answered, "yes, would you like me to bring you some?"' and I said, "what I'd really like is to learn how. Would you teach me?" And so we exchanged numbers and within a few days we set up a time to meet together at her house and cook lunch. We made a vegetable Korma and it was amazing! I believe we're going to go to the Indian market together next and then we plan to cook together again sometime soon. It really was a dream come true to watch and be cooking with someone from India. Thanks Jaya!
This is our cute neighbor Saige that we've known since she was a toddler (we were neighbors in our last house too, and we moved to the same neighborhood again). Saige is a very special little girl. She has a seizure disorder and although she's 7 years old, she's mentally the age of a 18 month old. My entire family loves Saige and we love those rare ocassions when we get to watch her if her parents go out, and we love that she gets to sit with us every other week during our Sacrament meeting at church.
The APA kids had a short day last week and Elisa Ludwig and I made a quick trip out to her new cabin because she had to run some things over and I was happy to join her for the 1 1/2 hour drive so we could get some good talk time. We were a little late coming back and so we had to cram all our kids in her car for just a few minutes, until we got to my van which was parked down the street where we had met earlier that morning. Quite the good looking bunch!
Scott finished the electrical and plumbing the inspector came and we put insulation in the ceiling and now we've hired a contractor to take care of the dry wall, mud, tape and texture. And wow they work fast! They will be done with their work in less than 2 weeks! And then it's time for us to paint!
I snapped this picture on a walk I took while Elisabeth was in her group piano lesson class one Saturday morning. I love the mountains and the trees that are changing colors! So beauiful!
Charles just finished up his football season and he loved it! He mostly played on the defensive line. He enjoyed games and practices, even though they were long and multiple times a week and it was really good conditioning for him. And I am so grateful he didn't get any serious injuries!
Scott and I go on a date just about every weekend. We go to the temple once a month, we go out to eat maybe once or twice a month and then we might watch a movie once or twice a month at home with a treat, or get one from Kneaders or, when it's nice weather, we like to do something active like bike or hike or play pickleball. On this particular day we rode bikes around for a bit and then we rode over to some outdoor pickleball courts had played a match. He won, but it was close! We love playing pickle ball.
Afterwards, we came home and I visited with Scott while he installed a light in the basement, unfinished storage room, because drywall was going up in two days and he would lose a lot of natural light.
This is a fiber board that we had them put under the dry wall in our theater/rec room to help soundproof even more. I'm questioning now if maybe we should've had them do that everywhere in the basement. But we did do insulation everywhere and the theater room will be the most used.
Our friend/neighbor Mark Haggin went out to visit his mom in CA and he brought these dolls back for each of the girls; his mom was going to get rid of them so this was perfect!
And since he figured Charles wouldn't want a doll, he brought him a BYU beanie (which he wears all the time, like while he's cooking pancakes in the kitchen) and a BYU cup. Thanks Mark and Stacey!
The APA kids had a whole week off of school for Fall Break (Elisabeth just Thursday and Friday) so I took them to the rec center swimming pool. We were there for nearly 2 hours, until someone pooped in the pool and they had to shut it down for a couple hours to clean it. But that's okay because we planned to stay for about that amount of time anyway. We all showered off really well after.
We are pretty sure Annabelle broke her nose for the third time last week. We had our friends the Hague's over Sunday night for cookies and all the kids decided to go play in our guest room with the lights off. Well someones head accidentally met with her nose and it bled a lot, swelled up and turned purpleish blueish for a few days, and it was hard to breathe out of for a couple of days. That night we took her to our neighbors house who is a doctor and he felt it'd be fine, wouldn't need to be adjusted, so we just told her take it easy for a few days and it seems to have healed itself pretty nicely on it's own. Poor Annabelle. With her nose brakes, collar bone brake, foot brake and dislocated elbow, she seems to have gotten more injuries than our whole family combined. But she handles it well and recovers quickly.
Look! The dry wall was all hung in one day!!! Amazing! In our previous house, we had to hang dry wall on the ceiling of two bedrooms (because they had drop ceilings before), and just those two ceilings probably took Scott and I weeks.
