October 2011

Family - October is always such a fun, happy month. We enjoy starting out the month by watching General Conference togehter as a family. This time, Felicity and Mom were both working on a Personal Progress goal together too, which made it even more special. We also had our first snow the first week of October.We went to our ward Harvest Carnival and Chili cook off. The Beehives were in charge of a cupcake walk so we brought cupcakes instead of our Heavenly Chili this year. Lydia did not get to go since she was working on lots of missing school assignments. They did all get to go to trick-or-treating with Shawn though. Felicity was a "gothic" girl, Evelyn was a "spider geisha" and Lydia was a Hawaiian girl.
Shawn - The Elders Quorum in our ward planned and enjoyed an activity where they went target/skeet shooting with a bunch of different guns. It's the first activity they've had in awhile and I think all the guys enjoyed it!

Lauri - I had been having numbness and tingling in my left hand since June, and since I had a couple days off work, I had carpal tunnel surgery to correct it. Shawn took the afternoon off so he could take me in and bring me home. It was amazing that the numbness and tingling were gone immediately! It will take a couple of months to regain full strength back in that hand, but I was able to go back to work the next Monday. Instead of a Super Saturday Relief Society crafts activity our ward had a Thrilling Thursday. I provided supplies for recipe binders with "scrappy" covers and was able to make some earrings and zip-close baggie pouches. Well, technically I only made one of each, but brought home the supplies for others. Bryan and Gina came that night with their kids and I took the next day off work to watch their kids while they went to the Rexburg Temple for Gina's little brother's wedding. I took the kids to them after the ceremony and ran a quick errand in Rexburg and a few more back in town. It was nice to have the day off and fun to spend some time with David and Alyson. The next night the girls watched David and Aly while the grown-ups went out to a yummy dinner :)

Felicity - Felicity is playing cello in the middle school orchestra again this year and played in their Fall Concert. Shawn and I thought the 7th graders (Felicity's age) sounded way better than the 8th graders! Felicity also went to a couple of stake YW volleyball activities. Not enough girls are interested to play with organized teams, so they just invite everyone to come and then teach and play with whoever is there. Felicity also went to her first school dance which was held right after school. She just went with her friends and she said no one was really dancing, but she was excited to go and I think she had fun.