2020 Blue Jeans Week 43

It was a good week!  Wedding plans moving forward.  Engagement pictures taken.  Excited to see them all done!  Hiking pics from my college kids.  Enjoying the fall colors.  Great cross country race here!  Boys made it to state!  Ben had a birthday.  It was a good week.  Take a look....

Mr A and Miss A love hiking and sent this cute picture from their hike last week.

Getting engagement pictures taken.  Excited to see them done!!!

Miss O and Miss E had lots of fun tagging along while they took the engagement pictures.  Glad they can be part of it!

This amazing guy of mine had a birthday this week!  Sure love him and so glad he is mine!

Hiking picture from Miss O and Miss E enjoying the fall leaves in the mountains!

Regional cross country race.  Our weather turned COLD!  Boys in their masks in their pre-race huddle and prayer.  Love this tradition!

Mr J running his awesome race!  Top 10 individuals make it to state and top 3 teams.  Mr J made it both individually and with his team!!!  Woohoo!

So proud of this kid!  He gave it his all!  We were all bundled up and he ran in this.  Burr! State race next week here we come!

Mr J and his awesome team that all qualified for state meet!  Hope it is warmer next weekend!!!  Wish us luck!

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2020 Blue Jeans Week 42

SUPER exciting news!  Miss A is engaged!!!  We are sooo happy for her and excited to welcome Mr A to our family!  They are getting married in December, and COVID makes things very small and simple, so that is nice.  It is going to be a wonderful thing!!  Take a look at our exciting week!

Our last home church was this past week.  Since end of July we have been able to attend in person church every other week.  We had to split our congregation in two, but this next week everyone is allowed to come because we have enough room to social distance family groups and with wearing masks we can get everyone there.  Exciting to go back to a little more "normal" with church!

And this was our super exciting news this week!!!!  Mr A proposed to Miss A!!!!  We knew it was coming.  They have been friends for a long time and then dating for a while, so we are very excited for them!  Grateful for the pictures!

So excited!  Mr and Mrs coming December this year!!!

So cute!  Sure love them!

The beginning of great things!!!

Our cross country meet for the week was league.  We have won for the last several years, but last year got 2nd by one point!  So we were looking to redeem ourselves.  Mr J had an amazing race!  Best time of the season.  #2 runner for our team and 5th place overall.

And Our boys won!!!!  League Champs again!  2nd place team wasn't even close!  Awesome group of guys!

Got our flu shots this week.  Not quite as exciting as everything else going on, but important!

And Mr J in the band performing at the football game this week.  They sounded awesome!

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2020 Blue Jeans Week 41

Had a wonderful weekend watching General Conference for our Church which is a worldwide televised worship service that we have every 6 months from our worldwide church leaders.  So good!  Exactly the messages of peace we needed to hear.  Life is a test.  It isn't meant to be easy, but we can have peace, joy, and comfort no matter what our circumstances when we focus on Jesus Christ.  It was just what we needed to hear!  It was a good week.  Take a look...

We always have the same snacks out for General Conference weekend--cocktail peanuts, candy corn and Reece's pieces.  I sent these same treats to the girls so they could have them while they watched it at college too.  Family traditions!

Our traditional conference weekend breakfast is aebelskivers--or round Danish pancakes that Ben makes.  They are a tradition passed down from his Dad when Ben was a kid.  They are yummy!  I love them with Nutella and sliced bananas.  

A photo from two of my girls this week, they are getting out and enjoying the fall leaves and the colors in the mountains.  They enjoy hiking together.  Lots of fun!

Did you see Mars this week?  We checked out the big telescope from the library again so we could see the red planet a little closer this week.  It was pretty cool.  We also saw lots of falling stars while we were out star gazing.  Always a cool experience!

Cross country race for the week.  Last regular race of the season.  Mr J rocked his race, #2 runner in for his team and 4th place overall.  Looking forward to next week's League meet and hopefully winning as a team!

Got out a puzzle to start this week.  We have had this one forever, since before we had kids.  It is one of my favorites to do.

And got this picture from Miss O this week.  For a group date night they decorated pumpkins.  Love the different designs.  Masked one is cute.  Sign of the times!  

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2020 Blue Jeans Week 40

It was a good week.  Great cross country meet, decorating for Halloween and some fun times outside.  We are still plugging along here.  School here is going well.  Cases here are low.  I am grateful for my faith in Jesus Christ that gets me through. Sometimes things are just so crazy, but He is a constant source of love, comfort, and peace during the crazy.  So every day I thank Him for our blessings--large and small!  Take a look at our week...

Mr J has been working and saving all his money this year to eventually get the new Apple watch.  It came this week, and he was sooooo excited!

Mr J getting his watch all set up with his phone.  Amazing what these little things can do!  He is excited and very happy with the result of his hard work and savings!

Fall is coming!  Getting decorations out for fall/Halloween.  Not sure what Halloween will be like this year.  We rarely if ever get trick-or-treaters where we live anyway, and I won't have any of my kids trick-or-treating this year.  We will celebrate how we always do by carving pumpkins and decorating pumpkin shaped sugar cookies.  Yum!

Mr J's cross country race for the week.  I love their pre-race huddle and prayer.  Great group of guys!

Mr J had his best race all season today!  He has been their #3 runner, but today he was their #2 and got 4th place overall.  Their team got 1st place!  Exciting day!!!

Mr J and his amazing cross country coach which also coached all of his older sisters AND was my cross country coach too.  Yes, he has been doing this for a long, long time, and sadly he says this year is his last, but I am so thankful Mr J was able to have him as a coach the last few years!!  Too bad he can't stay 2 more years to get Mr J through school!

Enjoying a beautiful evening in the backyard playing some badminton.  Admittedly, I am not very good, but we still have fun.  These boys have good attitudes and put up with me :)

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