Dancing with Daffodils

 It has been a dozy of a week or two. Back to early October, Brandon and I went to Curtis's home cross country meet and that was fun to cheer him on. It is a hard sport to watch but he ran fast and did a good job and it was a beautiful day to be outside. I got finger printed for subbing and helped Michelle with some power washing and decorating outside. I played pickle ball and watched Brandon's baseball game and Lily went to the homecoming football game. That Saturday was so busy! Lily was supposed to have her senior pictures on Columbus day but it was going to be rainy so right after her Nutcracker rehearsal we met up with Bethany at Greenwell and did her pictures. It went well and was fun and the weather held, which was great. Then we rushed home, she got ready for homecoming and then we met up with Adi and Claire to take some pictures around our neighborhood before they left to go out to dinner and go to the dance, which was fun but Lily said they didn't play music she ...

Pickle ball last week was super fun. I love ping pong but for some reason I have resisted getting into pickle ball but I really enjoyed it. We played for two hours and I had no idea so much time had gone by. It was fun to hang out with some ladies from church too and be competitive.  Saturday was our stake service project that Josh was kind of in charge of and it went super well. We had a free garage sale so we all donated stuff and a few of my neighbors did too and then Saturday people could just come take what they wanted/needed. I picked Curtis up from his long cross country run and got there a little after 10 and it was slow but steady for the next two hours with people coming in. There was still a lot of stuff but the estimate was that we gave away about 90 percent of what was donated so that's awesome. It required very little man power, no cost and was flexible in how you could participate so I think it was great. Then I took Emma shopping and since it was rainy we just hung ...