The Everyday

Yesterday felt like fall, and today felt like summer. Marty and I both dressed in our flannels to go to Lone Creek Farms (like Cornbelly's but smaller), and within the first few minutes of being there we were roasting. I should've brought sunscreen but that wasn't even on my radar. So fully embracing the October sun burns!  Even with the heat, Lone Creek Farms was such a blast. We went with Ryan, Summer, Ronny, & Jules P. and did the bouncy houses, slides, cow barrel train rides, rat rollers, corn maze, and the pig race ride. We also watched a live pig race with little piggies and experienced the candy cannon...and there were still activities we didn't get to. We ate lunch there and had to try the fried twinkies...so yum. Love this daddy daughter duo. And Emi's little binky-mouth smile. If you look closely Emi's face is priceless in this picture.  Family :) Little girls with their dads. Emi was more excited about the "corn on the cob" than she was

Emi had dance this morning and she did so good following the teacher! I love getting to watch her dance. She's so cute! We went to the park with Summer, Ronny, and Jules after. It felt more like fall today. The rest of the day was pretty relaxed. Marty and I watched the Dodger's game in the evening. They won which means they'll go to the semi-finals! 

Today at My Gym I was surprised to find that Emi knows how to do monkey bars! She still needs a little help being held up, but she can let go of her arms one at a time and swing to the next bar. I told Marty about this, and apparently he helped her learn that last week! It's so fun watching her learn new things. The big news for us today (actually tonight) is that Marty got an interview to Columbia!!! We're so excited. We're going to go out to NYC in a few weeks and check out the campus before his interview. I'm excited we're into the stage of touring schools...but if Marty only gets (an interview at and) into one of the schools he applied to, we'd be over the moon!

It's one of my favorite times of the year...pumpkin bread season! Some things that happened today: -Emi woke up early this morning, and Marty took her so I could sleep in. It was so nice! -We dropped off dinner to my friend Annie N.'s house and got to meet Baby Eli. He's so precious. Summer P. and I threw Annie a baby shower over a month before Eli was supposed to be born, and it ended up working out well, because he was born just 3 days after the shower. Eli and Emi are birthday buddies! -I went to another one of my YWs Choir Concerts tonight for our Wednesday YW activity. I was praying all day that at least one of our girls would come to support the girl in the choir, and it was not looking promising. But one of our girls pulled through and came to support the girl in the choir (who almost never comes to activities). It meant so much to me that that girl came! Afterwards I went with some of the leaders to drop off a birthday gift to another of our YW. -It was a good day f

I met with YWs Presidents in the Stake this morning. We shared ideas of what's working in our YWs and brainstormed different ways we could strengthen what we're already doing in our wards. Emi came with and enjoyed watching Cocomelon the whole meeting! haha. Emi and I were heading to our car after the meeting, when Marty called and said that there'd been lay offs at work that morning. Luckily, he still has a job (yay!), but his work said that people could work from home the rest of the day if they wanted to. So we got to have him home for the day! After Emi's nap, she and I headed to Costco. They had Christmas decorations out, and one of them was a Bluey blow up. She was soooo excited. She ooohed and ahhhed. It was magical.  One of my YW had a choir concert tonight, so Sylvia B. and I went together. The YW did really well and the concert had fun music. Afterwards we went to another YWs house to visit with her.

Emi and I had a little change in our usual Monday schedule. We went to Chuze, came home, and instead of going to My Gym, we had Bowen and Brye B. over for a couple hours. Bowen and Emi are getting better at playing a little bit more independently (and even sometimes together) which is really nice! In the afternoon, on our way back from the mailbox, Emi learned how to jump with 2 feet! She and I were both very excited. She practiced over and over.  We spent the first part of the evening at the church. For a YWs activity we are trying to compile the new hymns into folders for our chapel. It was a great idea, but the person who's in charge of preparing for activity (me) is learning what a pain it is to make close to 1500 copies. Marty and I were trying to figure out this evening how to get the printers going at the church, and are finding it's going to take more time than we initially thought. I'm sure it will all work out, but we were only able to get 10 complete sets of hymn