First off, Happy Birthday to Jenn! It sounded like you were able to do a little celebrating and that is good. Seeing the leaves falling in my yard reminds me of last year at this time when the girls took leave down to Arizona. How fun was that?! That was also the first time we heard about this Nick fellow. Who knew that in a few months from that time he would be a member of the family? Good times!
We were sorry to miss playing with the Springville cousins, especially since we don't get that chance very often, but we were unexpectedly thrown into having company. For those who may not know, Garrett's brother Quinn, is going to be living with us for a few weeks while he attends a rehab in Ogden. In order to make it more comfortable for him, Garrett's dad consented to helping us finish a bathroom and hopefully bedroom downstairs. After three crazy hectic days with hosting Garrett's parents, Quinn, and Garrett's brother Chris and his two girls, we are proud to announce that we now have a working toilet, sink and bath downstairs! Now that the not so fun steps are done, we can work on putting up walls, painting and fine tuning. Looking at it, it seems like not too difficult of a process. 50 steps and you have a bathroom, BUT you usually forget to take into account when you mess up (like drilling into the main sewer line, hooking up the hot water to the wrong piping, failing to tighten everything so when it turns on water spews forth all over) that it takes an extra 50 steps to fix the mistakes you made. DIY always takes a long time, but isn't it so satisfying?
It looks as though fall is in full swing. We had our first hard frost Friday morning and the whole day was chilly. I'm about ready to stoke up our fireplace. (Don't tell the government officials or we may get fined or something for polluting our air). Addy had her first piano recital with Anarie, and she did a fantastic job. The kids had a fun Halloween and did the traditional door to door trick or treating since our trunk or treat didn't happen. They had fun dressing up (I truly hope to get some pictures on here). Addy was a cowgirl, Emerson a chomping T-Rex, Eliza was a panda, Henry was an O Henry! bar and I was a BabyRuth and Garrett a Garrettdelli bar. Pretty fun!
My ponderizing quote for the week is taken from the Lectures on Faith:
"When a man works by faith he uses mental exertion instead of physical force. Faith works by words, and with these its mightiest works have been and will be performed."
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