Fall is Here

Fall has arrived and I swear the beginning of Fall is some of the best weather we get all year.  It's still nice and warm 70s/80s during the day, but cools off to a nice comfortable temperature in the evenings.  It's the perfect time of year for evening strolls.  The kids fall is filled to the brim with after school activities of course.  Last minute the boys (meaning I had to pay a $20 late fee) the boys decided they did want to play soccer.  The happen to be in the 8 and under league and seem to be the youngest kids on the team which means they themselves score less goals but the games themselves are so much less painful to watch and they are learning a lot from the older boys.  They are on the same team and Brinton Rosenthal and Aiden Davis, so we have been carpooling to soccer practice each week and it's fun to have their families on the side lines with us at the games.  Liv held strong in her decision not to play this year which I am grateful for.  Two sets of soccer practices and games each week is killer.  She has been enjoying cheering the boys on from the sidelines with Derek and I.

 The boys are starting to learn to play the piano in their second year of Let's play music and have been good about practicing each day after school and getting their 5 practices in every week, so they earn their prize at class.  Then, there is Liv.  She is taking a combo dance class at Christina's Corner Dance Studio and seems to finally be enjoying dance.  She is also taking voice lessons with Marcie Yachtman at Hale Center Theater Orem.  She is loving that and loves learning and practicing new songs and any change she gets to perform them.  She is still doing the Limited Edition Vocal Company at Center Stage.  She continues violin lessons and is also doing a piano Bridge course associated with Let's Play Music.  Not sure how we will keep up with all the practicing for all of this, but so far she has been managing it all real well.   Every Saturday I make out a chore list for each kid with as many chores as their age (the boys 5 each, Liv now 8).  Derek and I bribe them with various activities for finishing every Saturday.  One Saturday, we took the kids and Chase, who had come over to help with some weeding at our house that morning, to J. dawgs and then bowling. 

We bought a couple tickets for the whole family to BYU football games this fall.  The kids enjoyed getting the free stuff at the tailgate before the games and taking pictures by their photo ops. 


Liv's book club seems to be dying down...the last one only she and Hallie attended, but that didn't keep them from having fun.  They read Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus.


 Conference was great as always---all of us are looking forward to 2 hour church in January.  Liv got to attend women's conference with me for the first time which was neat.  This was a pic of all the kids filling the table with puzzles during one of the sessions which seems to be our conference tradition.