Miscellaneous September

We painted the laundry room and Luke and Matthew’s bathroom in two days time.  We picked the same light blue that is in our kitchen and master bedroom.  I love the way it turned out.

I just love these pictures of my dad.  I wasn’t there but thought I’d include them in my miscellaneous pictures. : )

Fluorescent day at the High School, a field trip for Luke and Ryan at School in the Woods, and my little cub scout getting his Bobcat Award.

Love these crazy boys that Matt gets to hang out with.

Our YW basketball practice fell through so we built pyramids instead.

Katie got asked to PROM while on a super cute date with Brandon Hansen. He had planned an elaborate homecoming ask throughout their date. First they went to Goodwill to find crazy clothes to wear ice-skating. When they bought a few things the cash register worker handed Katie a Silver star. ⭐️ Then at the pizza place when they delivered the pizza to their table, Katie got another silver star. ⭐️ Then they went roller-skating and when Katie got her roller-skates the worker handed her another silver star. ⭐️ Katie could definitely tell that something was going on and that she was likely being asked to homecoming.  When Brandon dropped her off at the doorstep, there were silver stars on the door. The stars said:

1. starlight star bright

2. First star I see tonight

3. I wish I may I wish you might

Door: Be my date on homecoming night.

It was really cute. He put in a lot of time and effort getting that all prepared as did his mom and sister Zoey.

After church one Sunday.  Funny that inadvertently, Katie and Megan dressed the same and had curled hair, and Emily and I dressed the same with straight hair.

Headed to the Richins house to celebrate Hanna’s birthday.

New York City Girls Trip–Central Park and the MET

It was fun to walk through iconic Central Park.  We walked down the Mall and ended up sitting on a park bench in the shade for quite a while.  90 degree weather made us pretty tired.

One last group hug before we said goodbye to Liz and Ally who had an earlier flight home. 

We walked through Central Park and enjoyed some time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

We wandered the streets from the MET, along 5th Avenue and back through Times Square to our hotel one more time – stopping briefly for an encore of Sprinkles cupcakes and ice cream.  After three days wandering around we really felt like we knew how to get everywhere.  We grabbed our bags and took a taxi to the airport – which Emily was very excited about since it was on her New York bucket list.  What a great trip.  What a great city.  

New York City Girls Trip–Walking to Church

We decided to sleep in a bit and recover from a few late nights.  We got up and got ready, packed up and left our luggage with the concierge and  left the hotel at 10:30am to walk the half hour to  church.   A picture by our Joe Allen restaurant (from the first night) on our way to church.   

The church building was on floor 3 of the Church building.  Floor 4 was the Temple.  Fun to see it.  It’s always fun to go to Sacrament meeting in different places and see how it’s the same and yet different.  This ward must have some Broadway singers in it because the volume and power of the hymns was really amazing.