2023, November 6-12

All in all, we had a rather quiet week at home. 

The parents went to chat with Landon's school counselor for his annual 504 plan update. We saw this cement sack which is where the name of the Springville Red Devils comes from.  

Here is Landon eating a plate of chili for dinner. He tends to eat what is in the can/box contains rather than the serving size. Servings are optional to this growing boy.

Hallie saw these turkeys in the area around BUH. In addition, she got some good views of the fall leaves and sunset near Bartholomew Park. 

Ferg is such a love. Here he is suckling on Hallie's coat. 

Later in the week, Hallie saw deer at BUH. 

Coming back from Yates Place on Wednesday, Hallie and the girls saw a flag they couldn't identify, so they called Mike. At first he thought it was a Brazilian state, but then he discovered it was for the NYPD. 

Coming home from TKD, Landon and Mike saw a string of bright lights in the sky. This blurry image belies the separate little lights that turned out to be a string of Starlink satellites.

Every so often, Mike gets brave enough to take a selfie. Hallie wonders why he's squinting. 

He's been doing Duolingo for over a year and updated his avatar to match his new look. Eliza says his hair isn't brown enough (or maybe the beard has more gray than Mike would care to admit). 

Maybe this is a better rendering (Go, Utes!). 

We're making progress on the puzzle Hallie got from Amanda. Landon's friends helped partway through the week, Mike helped later on, and Amanda came by on Saturday (with homemade Nanaimo bars!) and helped some more. In the end this puzzle will be circular. It takes a bit more thought than a lot of other puzzles. 

Hallie and the highschoolers made fancy snowflakes this week to decorate the classroom. Thanks to Grandma M who sent her the idea.

 

One of Hallie's favorite Barista/Friend Cassie was substituting at our local Starbucks. When Cassie makes Hallie her protein enriched drink, Cassie thinks it is funny to put all of the sprinkles/sparkles/syrups on top that they have. Here is Friday's festive drink.

Here's Hallie at the school play where she saw Amanda's parents coming to watch another grandchild. If you want to come see Newsies we highly recommend it and you will run into Hallie either taking tickets or working the concession table.

Here's Eliza and the other rodeo riders from last week's rodeo. 

On Saturday, the local supermarket had a birthday party for its bakery department. We danced for cookies and got discounted donuts. Hallie was actually happy and having fun. 

Sunday morning, Ferg warmed up to Eliza. We had five of the six of us cuddled together on the couch at one point. 

Later in the day, Dad and E went up to Michael's for the holiday craft. It was kind of a letdown because it was basically a blank card with a cutout circle and crayons for the craft.  

We ended the evening with s'mores. After being outside for two hours it eventually was cold enough we decided to call it done.