2023, October 9-15

We're getting into the spooky spirit of the Halloween season. 

Here is Hallie with a former student outside the high school Monday morning before Hallie headed on a preschool field trip to BYU. 

While mowing Gma and Gpa's lawn, Mom took another look at Eliza's injured leg. 

Turns out she had embellished the bruise with some makeup. She seems fully recovered, and she went to TKD all three days this week. Speaking of which, both kids have leveled up and will participate in a belt ceremony next week. 

Here are some images from Eliza at BUH. Eliza's first self defense class at BUH. The second picture was cooking class. This week they made snickerdoodles. Eliza said she wasn't hungry for dinner when she came home because she ate 7 cookies!

Fergus showed up Tuesday morning after his usual night out behaving oddly. By his slow limping walk, it seemed clear that he had gotten into another fight. We've seen evidence of a fox in the neighborhood, so we hope it wasn't that or at least that Fergus gave at least as good as he got. 

Because he clearly showed signs of injury, Mike took the kitty to the vet, where Ferg got an X-ray, antibiotics, and pain meds along with a lickable cat treat to soothe him on the way back home. The pain meds were pretty powerful, and Ferg zonked out for the rest of the day. 

Our neighbors, seeing something Hallie posted online dropped some yummy snickerdoodle cookies by our house. Thanks so much!

Hallie and Amanda went to a Save the Cups breast cancer get-together. In the fall of 2020 the owner of Swig soda company started Save the Cups after she had her own battle with breast cancer. This was a great way to start off Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Amanda brought Hallie back some goodies from her most recent trip to Disneyland. Here are a popcorn holder, a puzzle, and a candy apple. 

Fergus was definitely back to his usual self by Wednesday. While we have let him back out during daylight hours, we're keeping him in at night for the foreseeable future. 

Changing fall leaves are now hitting the valleys. Hallie took Kai to get groomed before sending him back to his other family. Look at the leaves from the driveway of the groomer's house. How awesome!

We come from a broken home, apparently. We kid. This sign that we have sitting in front of the house fell and split right down the middle. It got rain soaked and warped a bit, but Mike will try to make repairs, kintsugi-style. 

Kitty is such a love. 

We had some dramatic skies heading into the weekend. Friday night had a rainbow to the east and sun dogs to the west. 

Here's a view from Gma and Gpa M.'s. 

We didn't catch the sun dogs, but Mike got this sunset shot. 

Hallie's popcorn holder has found a home at work up and away from small children.

Here's Eliza riding around at BUH on Friday. In November Eliza is doing a small rodeo with BUH, and here she was passing off her barrels and pole bending.

Eliza has been friends with Dayton for many years. We were able to move some things around and get Eliza to his party. 

Folks in the neighborhood got together Saturday to watch the annular eclipse. We managed to get some decent pictures and experienced a drop in temperature as the moon passed in front of the sun.  

Eclipse shadows are a trip. 

Hallie had to go down to Nephi to get some medicine for Eliza. She got caught with all the other eclipse traffic returning home. 

Hallie and Eliza went down to Lexi's house to buy some of the pumpkins Lexi had grown. 

Later, the girls and the next door neighbors drove up to Daybreak in Salt Lake to look at elaborately decorated houses. Hallie had heard about the neighborhood decorations earlier, but apparently the Washington Post even had a story about it this week. 

By the end of the busy day, Eliza was tuckered out (well, so was Hallie).