Brad got to sleep in a little on his birthday, woke up to THE COOLEST sign created by Kelly in "only" ONE HOUR the night before (her words). It was amazing! Then he got to have Creamed Eggs on Toast for breakfast and then opened presents before watching General Conference. I would say it doesn't get better than having your birthday on Conference! He probably would have loved to go fishing on his birthday, but at least he didn't have to get all dressed up and go to church. He seemed to have a nice day. We would randomly break out in "Happy Birthday" throughout the day. 10-7-18
COLUMBUS DAY
Molly and I went to music makers for our first day of Halloween songs (Molly liked the animal ones better). After music makers we stopped and picked up Grandma Hatch and then met up with Grandma Ruthie, Aunt Jen, and Aunt Becky. It was cute to hear Molly talk about having "TWO wahmahs!" We had a great time, ate yummy Mimi's Cafe food. Good times. That evening was Brad's basketball tryouts. This was a rough day for him. I'm so irritated about how things are run in the basketball department at KJH. I know I just sound like a bummed mom, but seriously. 10-8-18
FHE
Jack taught the lesson, he had us all draw something on a piece of paper, then he went around and told everyone that they did a good job on their drawing except for one person and he pretended to make that person feel bad about what they had made. This was his object lesson to teach how it's better to be nice to people and say things that make them feel good. How cute is that! Thought of it all by himself! We had cookies for my treat- even though I didn't eat any. We played Button Button for the activity. It was so fun to watch Molly figuring out how to play this game and finally get it the last few rounds. She would get all excited and scream and jump up and down... so cute!! 10-8-18
CHARITY'S ANSWER TO CHRISTMAS DANCE
I got a text earlier in the day from Jac asking what Charity's address was, so I wasn't too surprised when we were doorbell ditched that evening with a cute answer to the Christmas Dance. I LOVE that he used the bucket and same theme, just with Cocoa Crispies as the "dirt" and a GIANT gummi worm. Pretty fun stuff! I am loving the high school life as a parent :).
BRAD CCR
We went in for Brad's CCR on Thursday. I like this meeting because it gets the kids thinking about their future. It's fun for me to talk about what their strengths are and hear what they think as well. I like our counselor at the Junior High. She is good at letting them be themselves. The only thing I didn't like was when she was telling him that it might be better to take easier classes so that he can get better grades to get into BYU. I know BYU doesn't weight harder classes (I think it's DUMB, but I know they don't) but why do we want to tell kids to be mediocre?? This is a smart SMART kid who can really do things when he applies himself. Why not motivate him to try hard and push himself, challenge himself a little. It frustrates me. But whatever. It's up to each of these kids anyway. 10-11-18
MY CRAZY DAY
My crazy day was Thursday. It was really only a half day, but it was FULL CRAZY. We had Nate working on the food for the Kaysville Stroll all day, then Race Cats races while Kelly was at her game- her game that she shot and made a buzzer beater shot! THE ONE GAME I DIDN'T GO TO!- and then had to race around getting Brad to his concert early, Noah to scouts (thanks to Cathie Nybo for taking him so we could get to the concert on time), and then back to WATCH Brad's concert. Then over to the Stroll to help Nate and Kelly clean up. Charity did end up going to Volleyball in the middle of it all. And thankfully, Luke offered to stay home with Jack and Molly- such a blessing! Doesn't sound all that crazy when I write it all out, but I was dying! If only these things could be more spread out throughout the week. Everything always happens at once. 10-11-18
RACE CATS RACE
This was our first Race Cats race- it was at Nichols Park. We got there very early, got bibs on, played on the playground, watch the first two age groups go and THEN it was Noah and Erika's turn. They had the 2008 and 2009 birthdays race at the same time. That was nice for us :). It is always so much fun to watch them run! They are so good! I loved seeing Noah come in so soon after the first place runner, in 5th place! Then I turned to Emily to say, "Oh, I guess we'll see all the boys come in first" and before I could finish saying it- there was cute Erika- running around the corner to the finish line! I couldn't believe it!! I hadn't seen any other girls come through, but she was second in the girls! I was SO IMPRESSED!!!! She is such an amazing runner! It was a lot of fun to see them race. 10-11-18
KELLY'S GOAL
Of COURSE Kelly scored her first goal of the season at the ONE GAME I couldn't see! As bummed as I was that I didn't get to see it- I am pretty proud of her! F'real here we come :). 10-11-18
KAYSVILLE STROLL
Everyone had really sold us on the Kaysville Stroll idea, when we were doing the market. We weren't sure how it was going to go, being October and cold and all, but Nate braved it! It's not fun to not know how things are going to go and the unknown is stressful for all of us, so I felt really bad that I wasn't going to be able to be there to help Nate set up and sell. But Charity was with him and I heard all about them hauling things down the street from a block away and from the looks of it- they only hauled the bear minimum. But by the time I got there, they were pros and had made themselves at home right next to the wood shop guy. I'm not sure why they didn't put us with the food on the end, but whatever. I was glad I got to be there for a little while after Brad's concert, and help clean up, but it was a bummer it wasn't a more productive night for him. I think he broke even. Which is good, but also not. 10-11-18
BRAD'S CHOIR CONCERT
This was Brad's first concert as a Choralier! It was so fun to see him perform. He looked so little up there with the 9th graders! I forget how much growing boys do in that one year. But I'm so proud of him! I love that he stuck his neck out and tried out for such an impressive choir and that he has put his heart into it! I loved the songs they sang and loved that I knew what he was singing because he's talked to me about the Pentatonix ones and how much he likes them. Erika and I were happy to see Grandpa and Dawn there, fun to have their support at something like that. He was excited to walk to Fiiz with his friends afterwards and stopped by to get some cash from us at the stroll on his way over :). Good stuff. 10-11-18
DEACON CAMPOUT
Nate, Brad (even though he had his birthday, he wasn't TECHNICALLY a Teacher yet, so Nate let him go :) ), and Luke all headed out Friday afternoon for their monthly overnighter. They seemed a little nervous about how cold it was going to be. I was nervous for them too. The rest of us juggled people so that we didn't have to squish in Nate's car for all the things like getting treats, Kelly's psychology experiment at Winco, and picking up Charity from work. Kelly and I also squeezed in the project of painting one of the walls in their bed room. We're going to have to do it in sections because we don't have a large enough chunk of time to just knock it all out! Not to mention the room is just CRAMMED with stuff!! But we did it! Looks great! It always surprises me how much a fresh coat of paint can really liven the place up! Now I really want to do the living room! Not sure why I'm choosing now to do this project when there are about a million other things I'd rather work on, but hopefully it's something the girls appreciate and enjoy. Then we had a fun movie night. The boys all ended up having a good time. So did we! 10-12-18
ERIKA'S LAST SOCCER GAME
Erika had the hottest games and the coldest games this season! Ended the season on a 8:00 am game! It was pretty cold, but that didn't stop Grandpa Hatch from coming! I was a little surprised to see him, even though he said he might come. It was a lot of fun to have him there because I was cheering solo, with Nate, Brad, and Luke gone camping, Charity watching Molly and Jack who were sleeping in and Noah just stayed home :). Erika scored two points! She made a really awesome play with a teammate who was actually taking the ball down on a fast break and Erika ran up to help her and the other girl kicked it right to Erika, then Erika kicked it right in the goal! It was awesome! I loved that they was working together, doing what they'd practiced! The other goal was a fast break for Erika. She's great at those! And it's way fun to watch :). It was a good game. She's really anxious and excited for Spring now! 10-13-18
CHILLAX TOURNAMENT AT ALTA HIGH AND JAROM'S SEALING
We didn't have the van, and Erika had her soccer game, so Kelly rode with a teammate and the rest of the kids and I headed down after Erika's soccer game. Charity stayed home because of car space and because she wanted to go to the Temple for Jarom's sealing. We were bummed we didn't get to go to Jarom's baptism, but it just wasn't in the cards for us that day. The kids and I got to Sandy right when Kelly's first game ended. Which was good because she needed a ride out of there :). But we had a couple hours to kill. I took the kids on a little tour of my old neighborhood and Draper park. They had a lot of fun playing. It's always funny when there's a lot of time to kill. I never really know how I'm going to kill it. And unfortunately, you always have to get a little too creative for the first part of the time, and then right before you're done killing it, something big happens that suddenly takes up more than you have. That happened to us when Jack pooped his pants! We had to race around looking for a store that sells pants and underwear and wipes- this was the grossest part of my day. Sorry, Jack, but there's a reason I potty trained you!! I did feel bad for him, because he had just put off going and then the bathroom was too far away at the park. He tried his best, I really don't blame him, but after sitting in the car for 20 minutes looking for a store.... well, you get the idea. It was messy. Luckily we finished cleaning up and got back to Kelly's game in time. We all watched and cheered her on even though they were really struggling out there! Both games that we saw we kinda got killed. It was sad. Before the last game we played at Storm Mountain park for a few minutes. The second game, I had signed up to sit at the table, so I had the kids all come up and sit on the turf next to the table. I was nervous about how that was going to go with Molly, so during the time between games, I downloaded a bunch of toddler games onto my phone. That ended up being the perfect solution- she didn't make a peep almost the entire game! Everyone else did really great too- with a few trips to the snack stand of course. We were sad we lost, but tournaments are always fun anyway. We made our way back home stopping in Salt Lake to have dinner with what we thought was going to be all the Maynes family at Chuck-a-rama, but when we got there learned that they had switched restaurants and were going to the Sugarhouse Sizzler. Well, we were not about to drive BACK that way and we were all hungry and tired, so we just had dinner by ourselves. It was actually a nice and pleasant time. I liked it. I mean, minus the fact that it was Chuck-a-rama. Nate and the older four were pretty wasted from the day at the temple- Nate said they waited 40 minutes in the sealing room because the Sealer didn't even know he had an appointment that day! Kinda nuts. The kids had wanted to do baptisms, but didn't think they'd have time for the hour wait- turns out they would have been just fine. Which was a bummer, but oh well. 10-13-18
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