School pictures happen way sooner in middle school and high school. For middle school, the pictures happened the week before school started. That way, you have your student ID card ready to go for lunch. For high school, school pictures were in the second week of school.
Time for a photo dump of all the pictures that deserve to be seen but don't need their own post.
Ali and I drove to Heber to spend the day with my Mom. It ended up being an emotional morning because she told us her wishes for her funeral, who she wanted to speak, what songs, and what musical number. It was hard to talk about it but it was stuff that we needed to talk about. Then she wanted us to get out her jewelry and pick out a ring. She told us about each piece of jewelry. Ali and I didn't want to choose anything without Betsy and Katie being there. We enjoyed looking at it and it was a special time. Definitely a heavy day though.
James's mission farewell was a few weeks before but we had to do it early because of Labor Day and Ali and Dan going out of town.
Erin Shephard, my good friend and Ryan's mom, brought flowers. They were beautiful and roses, my favorite!
Lynnlee and I participated in the Mud Girl again. We participated in it last year with girls from our ward. We thought the ladies in our ward would do it again but they didn't. It's ok though. We had fun doing it together. We plan on doing it next year and having Sienna join us.
The obstacles were the same and we had to rely on other girls to help us through some of the mud pits because it is to wet and slippery to get out of the mud pools and over the mounds. It was fun being challenged. We got nice and muddy.
James missed going to the concert so he could go to the temple with friends. He would have enjoyed the concert but going to the temple was way better prep for his mission.
Katie's family bought concert tickets to see Muse and then couldn't use them because they had gone back to Texas. She tried to sell them but was unsuccessful. They were in the pit and really expensive tickets. I think she paid $257 per ticket and she had 5 tickets. She was selling them for $150 each. We did not have the money to pay either amount. Since she couldn't sell them, she ended up giving them to us because they would have just gone to waste. The concert was amazing and being in the pit and being that close to the stage made it so much better. It is hard to want to go to another concert again unless I can be next to the stage.
Tag and Sienna went to 7th Grade day which was the day before the first day of school. It helped calm Sienna's nerves. She was nervous for middle school but she was feeling better about it after that.
