Other Happenings in October and November

I participated in an adult women's pickleball league in the fall. I played with my neighbor, Annemarie, who is pretty good at pickleball and doesn't like to loose. We lost against 2 teams in the regular season, but did well during the tournament play. In the end, it came down to us and the 2 teams we had lost against. But neither of their teams were able to play during the final week of the league and tried to get us to reschedule for the following week. Unfortunately, the following week was bad for us, so they ended up calling it a 3 way tie for first in the end, I think. We got these snazzy medals. It was a lot of fun, though.

Danny had an event at the convention center and they had a family night so I took the boys down there. They got to make and shoot off rockets, build lego cars, shoot nerf guns, plus a number of other things. I couldn't stay the whole time with them because I needed to pick Ashley up, but they had a lot of fun.

Alyssa picked out their school outfits one day so I took a pickture of them since they were looking so stylish.

BYU basketball season started again. We took the kids to one of the early games. 

I took Ashley with me to My Fair Lady at the Eccles theater. She had recently read Pygmalion in her English class, so she was very familiar with the story line. She also has really started to love musicals lately, so she really enjoyed the outing.

We raked up the leaves on the Friday after Thanksgiving because snow was in the forecast for that night. The kids jumped in the leaf pile for about 5 minutes before they were bored with it.

And the snow was very much unwelcome for the adults in our household, but the kids were super excited.

We had Connor come stay with us for a few days after his volleyball tournament in SLC. Alyssa loved having time with her cousin. We went to an escape room while he was with us. It was a CSI theme and we were supposed to help the detectives solve the crime. We figured it out with a few minutes to spare.

Ashley spent the week of Thanksgiving in California with her cousins. She got to do a lot of fun things while she was there, but mostly she just enjoyed being with cousins and wearing shorts and tshirts. We had a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home with us, minus Ashley, and Gawbie and Grandpa.