I was about to hit the sack, and realized it's the last day of the month!
Another busy one, but we've been able to stick around home this month, which has been really needed and nice.
Nils had a birthday! We had a few friends over for dinner and s'mores the night before his birthday (Saturday), and it was delightful. Roasting marshmallows is magical. Roasting marshmallows with fun friends is even more magical!
His birthday was on a Sunday, and he had to bishop all day, but he did manage to get in his weird combination of favorite snacky foods.
Young Men's camp happened, and they did all sorts of things. I think that's Nils rappelling; I recognize his clothes. :)
Aani and Ava found a praying mantis after church last Sunday and played with it for a really long time.
Nils and I fulfilled a years long wish of mine on Monday: riding the ski lift at Sundance up to the very top and eating nachos at the restaurant up there. It was great fun. Perfect day date. I love nachos. I love Nils. I love riding ski lifts up the mountain in the summer.
This morning, we floated the Provo River for a Young Women activity. We had all kinds of adventures. No one was injured too badly, let's just say that.
Bishop and Stake Presidency member riding in the bed of the truck with the cover on to go fetch the other cars at the top of the river. It's a long story.
Look what arrived! We did a live stream and everything.
After a summer that felt like a blip, school started for these two. Freshman year for the Flave.
Senior Year!
Nils and I got our teeth whitened. That was fun.
We have all manner of pestilence right now at our house. Mice, voles, spiders, mayflies, mosquitos, you name it. This hawk has been hanging around, and we love her because she eats all the things. We named her Hawkie because we are incredibly creative.
We've also had quite a lot of hail storms, and crazy microburst rainstorms this month.
Things are good. Life is busy.
Once sentence update on the kids:
Anders is working for us now as a production assistant and it seems to be going well; he's good at a lot of the things we need help with.
Addie crochets a ton, made a legit quilt this week because she decided she wanted to do that, and is wrapping up the outdoor pool season.
Aani is also finishing up the outdoor pool season, has only a couple of classes at school and is on the waitlist for hair school.
Ava goes to school like a normal kid, just started fall tennis season, and is impressively always up for anything and everything.
Okay, time to go to bed for real.
