2026, November 2-8

We're grateful for so much. Not a ton went on this week. We'll take the relative quiet as a good thing. 

Mike caught dramatic morning skies from his perch on Monday. We're moving into the time of year where we get lots of cloudy days. The sun does peek through every day at some point though. 

He attended Missoula's Festival of the Dead on Higgins Street Monday evening. 

He took the ofrenda he made. 

Festivities began with a drum circle and dancing. 

We then paraded down Higgins Street to Caras Park on the Clark Fork. 

In the meantime, Hallie took Eliza out to Drue's to ride Cooper. Crazy Girl rode in a tank top. Eliza realized later that she gets cold after riding. 

She took a selfie with the sakura-flowered shirt Mom got for her from Epcot. 

She also did some more riding later in the week. 

And tail braiding, apparently.

Later in the week she went out to exercise Cooper one last time.  

Hallie substituted on Wednesday for her 1st grade class. This was a first for Hallie, and she felt it went well. The classroom she works in currently has two other women who are working on the education degrees. There was no shortage of help and she was grateful for all the help she received. 

We don't have many photos of weekend activities. On Saturday, we watched two college football games at the house between helping Eliza with music homework. The better team won the Holy War at Rice Eccles to much cheering (Go, Utes!), and UM won handily at home (Go, Griz!).   

We got to visit with Diamond, Caleb, and Katara on Sunday. Yay!!!!

Landon hasn't reported anything new and exciting this week. We will see him soon and look forward to that visit.