2020, September 7-13

Labor Day afforded us a shorter week at school. We started bright and early with gym practice and ended by watching Harry Potter battle Tom Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets. 

We had fires in Springville Sunday night. They caused a bit of a fuss but no damage around where we live. We've received quite a bit of smoke from the fires in California as well. 

Hallie looked after Lily on Labor Day while the kids did gym in the morning. This freed them up for play with friends in the afternoon. A few weeks ago the gym enforced a mask mandate, and so here is Hallie all masked up to hang out with Lily and to watch the kids.

On Tuesday, we needed to take the van into the shop, so Mike took everyone to school. Hallie got to witness our new good bye ritual, yelling out "I love you!" to Landon as loud and annoying as possible as he crosses the road to school. He has no first period class (yay gymnastics for PE!), so usually he's all by himself walking to campus. This is Eliza's favorite thing to do, and she was not with us when we dropped him off, so Mike took up the mantle.

Mike's laptop is suffering from a swelling laptop battery, so he needed to get a loaner while it gets repaired. Getting a new-to-him laptop is a mixed blessing that caused a few work hiccups this week.  

Hopefully his old laptop comes back! It'd be a shame to lose these stickers. 

Eliza got hold of Hallie's camera and played with its filters. Eliza doesn't get to practice with Morgan anymore, and so they cherish the few minutes they have together on Wednesday evenings.

She also made a comic for school that we had to figure out how to get sent due to issues with Mike's laptop and our printer. Technology is great except when it isn't.

We honored the fallen on September 11, and in the afternoon Eliza and Hallie brought her former schoolmate Dayton and his mom to Eliza's riding session. Dayton even got to go on his own ride!

Dutch Bros. opened in Sandy, so Hallie went up there and got tasty drinks, car fresheners, and stickers on Saturday! We have seen pictures that there will be one opening in Provo in not too long, and we will be glad not to have to drive so far. 

The kids were impressed by this yellow Corvette they saw while driving. It's the little things.

Eliza and Dad finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, so we had movie night at Hogwarts. Good fun for all! Also, Hallie and Mike finished their summer binge watch of The Big Bang Theory, thanks to many weeks' worth of checked out DVDs from the library, and (thanks to Netflix) the parents finished Reign too.