Wednesday, February 28, 2024

November 2023

 November was kinda packed!  

The beginning of November I made LeGrand take me to Asheville to Vintage Market Days to check it out - we had a fun day!



We joined our friends for an awesome hike...the weather was perfect!











On November 15th was our 21st anniversary, the weekend before we had a couple nights away in Charlotte and I got to check off a bucket list item at the P!NK concert --it was SO AWESOME!







Halloweeeeeen

The Library at Loa's school had a pumpkin contest, they were supposed to create their pumpkin to represent a book...she was so excited to design hers after the book 'Dragons love tacos' it was right down her alley as she loves Dragons - - the librarian was so impressed, and she was thrilled to be the winner of an Amazon gift card!


Lytzi modeling her costume weeks before Halloween :)

The ward hosted a fun trunk-or-treat the weekend before Halloween, because it fell on a Tuesday night this year, of course it was a fabulous time - - so SO nice to enjoy good weather and not have to bundle up for the snow like we are used to!




The night of Halloween we met up at the Christoffersons and went trick-or-treating in their neighborhood, the kids had a blast and got loaded with candy!...and this is the only picture I took - Cruella got tired of her wig, so LeGrand took over :)




 

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Fall Festivities

 We started off October with a fun Fall festival for the Ward, it was held at the Tolmans and was so much fun!  They had a pie eating contest and talked a bunch of the men into it...of course, LeGrand won, ha ha - he can't help it but win these food eating contests!







The minivan hit over 200,000 miles and started acting funny, I just kept feeling like it was going to give up the ghost any day...but I really loved that thing so I just kept pushing it forward (also, because I REALLY didn't want to have to buy a new car until we got a job).  One day as I took Loa to Horse lessons it started acting real weird, so I had LeGrand meet me there and follow me to the dealership...turns out we had to put $1700 into it to keep it running but really the transmission was starting to go out so, it was time for a new car!




I said goodbye to this trusty Honda and settled on a VW Atlas after way too much time spend looking at cars and researching...after having it for a few months now, I like it fine but it honestly isn't my favorite car. It just doesn't seem as comfortable as the van and I feel like all the digital stuff just isn't my thing, ha!

We joined our Soccer loving Moss friends to watch a USC Upstate soccer game!


The Birds invited us to join them for Scarowinds...it was a little chilly but we had a blast!











Thursday, February 8, 2024

September Shenanigans

The nice thing about the weather staying warm is that our Summer fun got to continue through September!  The Birds had a fun birthday party where the kids got to do plenty of swimming!  Even I took a few trips down that wild slide :) 





We also got to enjoy a fun Birthday Party with all of the Moss clan...the kids swam and played their hearts out!




We took a little day trip up to North Carolina and found us an Orchard to visit...in the fall there's an abundance of Orchards with all of the cider, apple donuts, frozen cider, apple pies you can get your hands on- yum!







The stake had a fun Mud Run activity for the youth...Laexin and Loa both had a great time!









Our friends, the Wilcox's started a little chapter of BYU Alumni in our area and we all got together to watch one of the games...the kids had a great time with their own game of football.


We live in a great little neighborhood that gets together often, we finally made it to one of the bbq & swim evenings...the kids always love to swim!


Loa started English riding lessons.  She is really struggling with this big change, leaving all of her friends and having a hard time figuring out how to make friends at her new school.  She LOVES her church friends, but unfortunately none of them go to her school.  I had the clear impression during church one Sunday that I should put her in riding lessons, it was later that evening that she came in once again crying about not wanting to go to school. I felt like maybe giving her something to look forward to would help with the challenge of all of the changes.  I avoided it for a while because of the cost but after the impression at church I decided to just bite the bullet and do it.  She loves riding and it has helped for her to have something to look forward to.






Linqs school had a morning where the parents could come have breakfast with him.


More fun in the water...a big lake party at the Birds has become one of our favorite things!











We finished out our September with a trip to a Sunflower patch with lots of friends from the ward.