Homecoming 2025

 

Adulting On Your Birthday

We spent Joel's birthday tag teaming different child events.  The oldest 2 had a choir concert and the younger two had overlapping baseball games.  We'll celebrate him this weekend since that clearly didn't happen on his actual birthday.

 This was also BB's last game of Fall ball.  The Rizzly Bears had a great season!  The only games they lost were to 8th grade traveling teams.  They dominated 7th grade.  They've come a long way in the last 2 years. They're first season they only won 2 games and now they only lost 2 games.

Parenting Is Always An Adventure

 Nobody tells you how wild a ride parenting is, or maybe people do warn us, but we somehow think it will be different for us.  My younger two boys have pretty much trashed our house.  We have large holes in the walls from illegal baseball being played, and doors, cabinetry, and window treatments ripped off their hinges or out of walls.  I've already told Joel we won't be fixing any walls until they are either all out of the house or it's the day before we move out.  I could go on and on about their shenanigans.  Sometimes you find ridiculous things that just make you laugh (it's a whole lot better than crying).  I've spent the last couple of days cleaning out our basement.  That's an adventure in of itself, but I found a page or two of lovely writing by my boys.  Good times.

You'd think they were raised by a pack of wolves.  I want my money back, because they didn't do a very good job.  

A Finish

 I always try to have a quilt to hand stitch while watching General Conference, because it's hard for me to sit still in front of a TV with nothing to do.  I fall right to sleep. This quilt went surprisingly quick.  

General Conference Weekend

I always look forward to general conference weekend, but it was a little chaotic and too busy this time around.  There was wrestling and botched pumpkin cinnamon rolls (I'm still too irritated to talk about it), but BB still managed to get a temple put together, and conference itself was lovely.  

Stick to Quilting

 Little Lady needed her concert dress hemmed.  I hemmed Little Man's concert pants the year before by hand, so I thought I was try the hemming setting on my sewing machine for Little Lady's dress.  I watched a couple of YouTube videos and prayed for the best.  I've decided I need to just stick to quilting, because the hemming is definitely noticeable and not great.  Oh well - E for Effort! It may not be pretty, but she won't trip on her dress, so at least it's done.

Friends Homecoming

 Little Lady went to her friend's homecoming tonight.  It was a bit of last minute scramble.  The 2 dresses we ordered sat in a shipping facility in Lenexa for a week and a half and just never arrived.  When I got home from work on Saturday we had 2 hours to find a dress, shoes, and get her ready.  Luckily, she found a dress and shoes she really liked at the first store we tried.  We ran home and got her ready.  She wasn't a fan of curling her hair at first, but it grew on her.  

She had a great time with Lexi and friends.

Asking to Homecoming

 Little Man asked Brooke to Homecoming this weekend as Spider Man.