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 After 4 1/2 years, our Primary Presidency was released for new adventures. Thinking about it, that's longer than a kid spends in high school!  Asher is 18 now, so he was 13 when our presidency was called. No changes, other than losing our secretary when she moved away and she wasn't replaced. In this time we've been through 5 Relief Society Presidents and several YW presidencies (partially due to boundary changes in 2024 that shook everything up... except us, lol). So, it's a great bummer. I will miss the calling and working with Anne Bean and Andrea Virgin. Speaking of the former, I love Anne to pieces, but one of her personality traits is some very strong opinions about, well a lot of things really.  What she considers appropriate or right can be much more black and white for her than it is for most of us.  For example, she has opions about art, like not liking images of Jesus that are more abstract without facial details, or clip-art kind of style.  Her bigg...

when you overhear your teen tell his brother...

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"Oh no, the sea pickles aren't producing light!" 😳😂😂😂 Brennan assures me it's a common minecraft thing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Typical

When they're supposed to be cleaning up dinner. https://youtube.com/shorts/UJDZe7Gae1g?si=KzhoUi4o4uDwrbQh

Autumn 2024

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Goofball, lol Kieran wrote and typed up his part for the primary program, printed it, and brought it with him into the family room. Where Catniss promptly decided she needed to protect that paper with her life. She's swatting Kieran away from his own paper. General Conference was a delight. The primary gifted all the kids a giant coloring page - plus Hollyn and myself got one. It was actually super fun! Just some pictures from day-to-day life. That time Catniss chose a lap that wasn't Hollyn's!  Too lazy to stop from falling into the couch. The day after attending the WSHS football game, I suddenly noticed this damage. We were so dismayed that someone hit us and didn't leave a note! Until later, Nate happened to notice the post-it on our windshield with the apology and contact info. Phew. Luckily it stayed in place as we drove home that night! Stake Day of Service - we helped clean up the property of someone in Sheridan. When our dryer broke, Nate brought the load outsi...

Extractionists

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These two both had oral surgery within 3 days of each other. Asher got his (3) wisdom teeth removed on a Tuesday, then on Friday he saw his rheumatologist in PDX while Hollyn was getting 3 teeth removed herself. (She was also "put under") They were able to commiserate with each other about the soreness, swollen cheeks, and need for soft foods.  

Happy Halloween 2024

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Hopefully some better pictures coming today, but here's a preview from the Trunk-or-Treat last night. Mandalorian (again. We had to find a bigger costume, lol) I didn't take pictures until after Hollyn had left, but she and Kieran chose to carve pumpkins this year, and then Nate and I ended up carving our big guy as well. Shockingly, we got the entire family, including Brennan and Kylea, to the pumpkin patch this year!  We did the corn maze, picked out a few pumpkins, and grabbed our traditional Slurpee's at the 7Eleven on the way home. Family memory unlocked!  

The Cross Country Season Has Run It's Course

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 This year Asher, Hollyn, AND Kieran all participated in Cross Country.  It was lots of fun to go and cheer them on.  We lucked out with the gorgeous weather every single race day until yesterday, Asher's final race.