We had a fun Labor Day weekend with some of our close friends from the ward who had moved away. Jer wanted to call this photo, "And in the morning, I'm makin' waffles"! Every waffle needs a little love right? Bananas, nutella, vanilla ice cream topped off with whipped cream.
And you can't have a waffle bar without our homemade "fancy" syrup.
Sam ran Rumble in the Jungle at the Creasy Mahan Nature Reserve in Goshen, KY.
Hard course, but Sam loves this race.
Liv and the middle school dance team performed in the parade for the Fall Festival.
As luck would have it, as soon as the parade began, the rain started!
Drew said, "take my picture on this"...and
in front of the elephant...and
on this big guy!
What are they talking about?
Race strategy, lunch plans, did we do our home teaching?
Love these guys.
Cross Country, every.single.weekend.
Go Sam go.
Ready for church!
Since we have been attending the new branch, primary has been a different experience. Primary now consists of Nate & one other boy. Technically Drew is in there too, but he is still supposed to be in nursery (since there are no other kids his age, he goes to primary, but he doesn't contribute much yet). When it came time to do the primary program, the primary president was a little concerned how two boys would pull it off by themselves. They decided to include the branch adult members in the program. Nate still had a speaking part, and he and Carlos were supposed to sing four duets together. Now usually there are only about 35 people in attendance on Sunday (including our family), but on the day of the program, we had all of the stake leaders show up too. The room was packed :) Nate has always been very resistant to participate in our ward primary program, even with the comfort of a large primary of kids. So I honestly did not expect Nate to get up there in front of everyone, and I definitely knew he was not going to sing in front of all those people...
but you know what?
He did!!! And he sang loud!!!
I was so stinking proud of this kid, I cried through the whole thing. I have prayed that we would know where our kids needed to be to have the experiences they need to grow. Being called to this branch was not the answer I expected, but even after a few months, these kids have surprised me so much.
The next Sunday, we had a hard time finding a parking place.
Apparently, it was Carrollton's annual Tobacco Festival.
The whole city square was taken up by vendors and tobacco!
It was funny to see it set up in front of the church building like that.
Liv has been enjoying the school dance team.
They have performed at a few half-time shows.
Nate got to be on the soccer team with one of his best friends.
Nap time :)
This boy loves his mom.
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