Apparently I Only Blog When There's a Sister Update.

But I'm ok with that, I think their lives are more interesting and exciting than mine anyway. So here they are!

RACHEL

Last Week:

• Drove back from NC with CZ. I checked my local craft stores for more Halloween items when I got back and they had NOTHING. Completely sold out. Thank goodness we got so much shopping done while at Annee's!


• Saw Midnight in Paris with my friend Kirstin. It was so cute! I've been reading David McCullough's The Greater Journey about Americans in Paris in the 1800's so it all tied in very nicely.


• Went to lunch with Ken on day at the mall by the office. Ran into CZ also having lunch at the same time. That was cool!


• Had a full-day training in the office on Wednesday. Turns out Steve was the teacher! That was cool too.


• I sewed the felt garland and finished cutting the paint chip garland.


• Went VTing and was visit taught.


• Went to Truckeroo on Friday afternoon. It was AWESOME. So convenient having all the food trucks in one place! Ironically, there was no truck selling Mexican food like tacos, taquitos, quesdillas, etc which is the original of all food trucks. Wish one of those existed.


• Setup the gym Friday night while listening to the sad BYU game.


• Saturday it snowed pretty hard. Random for the area.


• Ward Halloween Party! Everything went really well. People were happy with how everything looked, and very surprised that we went to so much effort. The dry ice Ken brought was a huge hit with the kids. Everyone was shocked that we made the tombstones from scratch. I wonder if we'll be asked to help with the Christmas party. If so, maybe we should make a giant gingerbread house from cardboard... That could be so cute right?


• Sunday was the primary program.

Next Week:

• Not a ton going on this week. I haven't mentally wrapped my mind around the fact that it is November!! October FLEW by. We need to sit down and plan out the month.


• I'll be in training all week at a nearby hotel. This means I should be able to be home each day by 6pm.


• My goal this week is to run every day. Highly correlated to the success of the above point.


• Ghost Walk in Alexandria on Halloween. Wonder if we should wear our costumes... It will be freezing.


• Rotate out our dead plants and put in the new mums and pumpkins I have for November.


• Pack up Halloween decorations and pull out Thanksgiving ones. I want to make this Thanksgiving advent tree.


• Birthday dinner with Ken at J. Gilberts on Friday. Finally getting around to this! Other than that, we should eat out zero times. Our Eating Out envelope is at $0 so I really want to stick to this goal!


• Cook a turkey dinner on Saturday.


• Dinner at Steve's on Sunday I think?

IE LI

Last Week:

• Ran twice. We didn't do our nine miler. We are doing that on Monday.


• I did pilates once.


• Stephen's preschool praise and celebration thing.


• Preschool Halloween parade. Stephen was Spiderman and he kept his character the entire time. He kept his hands on his hips and did his shifty-eye thing. It was really funny.


• It snowed on Saturday! I was kind of sad about it. Our kids loved it and played in it for a while. But it was so cold and our heater isn't working!


• Mei Li lost her first tooth. She diligently wiggled it for over a week, and it came out painlessly while eating some chips.


• Went visiting teaching twice.


• Brought dinner to my friend.


• Cleaned the house really well.


• Kept up with the laundry all week, but of course the washing machine broke on Saturday.

This Week:

• Nine mile, five mile, and ten mile runs.


• Halloween!


• Look for a couple of tall things to put on my mantle to fill in the sides around the mirror.


• Continue to sand down other mirror.


• Stay away from Halloween candy.

ANA

Last week:

• Finished Jack's iPhone costume right in the nick of time! He was super excited to wear it and get all the attention...so not my child.


• Tried to figure out Will's "schedule.". So far all I've figured out is he doesn't have one.


• Got two 6 hour sleep stretches at night last week. Thought it might be his new "schedule" but the next night proved us way wrong. Like up every 90 minutes all night long wrong.


• Only went to the doctor twice. Things are looking up!

This week

• Month end at work. I am super nervous to have to work as much as i will have to this week. Like pit in my stomach nervous.


• Say goodbye to my mom. She has been heaven sent this last month. I don't even want to think about how much of a spaz I'm going to be without her help.


• Get lunches made before I go to bed each night so Jack and Zack will have an easier morning while I'm busy with Will.


• Figure out how to better read William's crys. Right now I just hear one, and it's loud.


• Only one doctors visit scheduled next week (and it's for William and not me). Try my hardest to convince my body to keep it that way.

CZ

Last Week:

• Drove back from NC with Rachel Monday morning just in time to make it to work at Anthropologie where they kept me until 11 pm. It was a long day.


• Worked again at Anthro Tuesday and Wednesday nights.


• Broke my phone. I don't want to talk about it. Went a few days with a really awesome $20 pay-as-you-go phone. I was scared to leave my house because I was sure I'd get lost without the map of the iPhone that I've come to rely on so much. I started out each of my days mapping out where I wanted to go and getting the routes from Mapquest. It was a small victory every day when I made it home at night without having gotten lost.


• Visit taught one of our girls, unfortunately couldn't get ahold of the other girl.


• Ran what felt like a million errands and got an oil change, I guess all in preparation of starting work the next week and realizing that I would soon no longer have any free time.


• Went back to blonde! It was kind of a sudden decision, but once I made it I wanted to move quick so that I wasn't suddenly changing things after starting work.


• Made one last trip out to Morgantown before starting work. Participated in some Halloween festivities with Jon and his friends and got to enjoy some Mountaineer appearances Jon had to make. I got to be a judge for the childrens' costume contest at WVU's Family Fun Day.


• Got stranded on my way out of town Sunday evening when my car broke down. I went a little bit into panic mode since I needed to be at my first day of work Monday morning. I had left myself plenty of time to get back early Sunday evening had their been no issues. A friend came and looked at the car and couldn't tell what was wrong with it but said it definitely couldn't be driven back to DC. Jon and I rushed up to the local rental car places only to get there right as they had closed. Looked into flights from Morgantown to DC but they were pretty expensive. Jon saved the day by driving me back to DC and helping me get to work the next morning on his way back out of town to get back to his Monday classes.

This Week:

• Start work! I know I've been waiting around forever for work to start, but it still feels like the time sped by, it's kind of crazy that it's already time to start!


• Find a solution to my car problem. I currently have a rental car which is a good immediate solution, but I need to get the car looked at to find out what exactly is wrong and what it will take to fix it. Hopefully it isn't as bad as I've built it up in my mind to be.


• Try to exercise at least a couple times. I'm a little worried I'm not actually going to be ready for my big race in Richmond...


• Really all I've focused on for this week is starting work, so we'll see what else the week brings.

ANNEE

Last Week:

• Ran 22 miles!! Last long run before the marathon!


• Henry turned 12. Spent Monday afternoon finding him presents. Darin went one direction, I went another. By Monday night we had a plan.


• Tuesday sent Henry to school then we had to find a few other gifts. Got home in time to cook up two dozen chocolate chip filled cupcakes before Henry got home! Later took the whole family out to chili's for dinner.


• Wednesday had to do some housekeeping damage control, then locked myself in the garage to make Ruby's costume.


• Thursday early morning run followed by a Costco run to get the rest of the food for the ward trunk-or-treat. Followed by a massage. Followed by parent-teacher conference. Followed by dinner/homework madness. Followed by book club at my house. Stayed up til 3am finishing the costume.


• Friday morning went to church to set up the trunk or treat. Came home to make Henry's costume. Straight over to the elementary school for the girls parties. Straight home to change into costumes and grab last minute items to take over to the church.


• TRUNK-or-TREAT!!


• Saturday, slept in. George's double header was cancelled due to rain. Total blessing!! Ran, did laundry, fed people. Then made costumes for the rest of the afternoon for me and Darin for a family Halloween party later that night.

This Week:

• No school on Halloween. That was okay because I feel like I could sleep through this entire week! Didn't wake up until 9:30. Spent the rest of the day returning things purchased throughout our frantic week last week and getting ready for Halloween night. Oh yeah, and helping 3/4 kids enter a writing contest which had me typing a story until 12:45 on Halloween night! Due date was today.


• Thought I'd just spend Tuesday getting caught back up on life. Instead got called in at the last minute to sub for a teacher who had to leave with her sick kids! I'll be subbing tomorrow too.


• I'd love to make it to the temple this week. But it's not looking real promising.


• Can't think of anything else right now. I can't even keep my eyes open!!

PS - Sorry for the super lame formatting, I'm on an older version of IE and I can't figure out how to change anything in Blogger.