All for One! And One for All!

Trunk or Treat: Our ward hosted a trunk or treat at the middle school. Sweetheart suggested being the 3 Musketeers. Hurricane wanted to be a ninja. After being told how cool it would be to a Musketeer (and that he wouldn't get to trick or treat if he wasn't), he thought it was a great idea.

We made tunics and hats. We bought swords. After the trunk or treat, we watched the 1993 movie "The Three Musketeers." Hurricane then thought it was a really awesome idea. Underfoot was excited to have sword. I threw together a quick costume of a bathrobe and a towel wrapped around my head. The reactions were fun.

Spooky Run and Make a Difference Day: The school's Spooky Run was hosted at the same time as a community clean up project. Underfoot, Hurricane, and I ran in the race. Sweetheart moved dirt and rocks at the community clean up. Underfoot ran the 5K in about 45 minutes with his friend and friend's family. Hurricane and I ran together. It is the first time I've really ran since starting physical therapy. Hurricane and I both made it in 50 minutes. After the race, we went to the clean up and moved rocks and cleaned up trash.

Work: Sweetheart worked a lot this week. He has a deadline for a large project in December. Since he will be working so many hours, we've determined he will come home early 2 nights a week - one for family home evening and the other on a random day during the week.

BYU Ballroom Dancers: One of the late nights that Sweetheart worked, Underfoot and Hurricane went on a date with me to watch a performance of the BYU Dancers. We all enjoyed the show very much. The boys were memorized. Hurricane needed to go to the bathroom in the middle of it and didn't want to leave to go because he liked it so much.

Ethics Class: I continue to keep my counseling license current and attended a 6 credit ethics class.

Clubs: Underfoot made ice cream in his STEM club this week. They talked about gas, liquid, and solids. The ice cream was more of a milk shake.

Butter: Hurricane's kindergarten class made butter. He asked if he could make it at home. We made it for family home evening. Sweetheart said it was the first time he'd had homemade butter that he could remember and thought it was very good. Later in the week, Hurricane attempted on his own to make chocolate butter with Hershey's syrup. It didn't work out very well, but he tried.