So September Sucked.
My mom died.
Despite that terrible and horrible fact...and as hard as it is to believe...life went on. How dare it? But it did. School, seminary, and activities were still happening and we went on. We had some very hard days in September but we also found some pockets of joy in it as well.
Dance Team was going strong!
Homework was back and nobody was thrilled about it. This is what our kitchen table looks like nearly every afternoon.
Ailey and Bryn decided that they didn't want boring lunches anymore so they started planning creative lunches and food prepping on the weekends. Go for it.
(Let the record state that Reilly and Kam ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, fruit, and pretzels every day of their school lives and never once complained. These are some high maintenance girls. LOL.)
Reilly and I decided to schedule monthly lunch dates. There are several places we like to lunch at that are near her work. This particular day she had to take her car into the shop so we had all afternoon to shop and play. We had a great time! I am excited to have more one-on-one time with this grown up daughter of mine.
Cross Country started up for Bryn. This year she was again running for her school team and her city team. XC took the biggest hit after my mom passed away. Bryn missed a lot of practices and several meets. She missed both qualifying meets for All-City because they were happening when we had family in town and things going on for my mom's services. Brynnie was a TROOPER about all of that. She didn't complain once even though I know that she was pretty disappointed missing out on All-City. But at all the meets that she was at... she kicked butt!
XC meet for school.
XC city meet.
This year Bryn's coach was our friend Tim. He used to be our bishop before our ward divided. He was a great coach and Bryn really loved having him coach her. Tim was also Kam's seminary teacher last year. LOL.
We had all kinds of weather for Bryn's meets... sun, rain, and SNOW! Yes, it snowed in September. Ugh... if things weren't depressing enough...it freaking snowed in September for several days and it stayed around for about a week on the ground. The news said that Spokane only had two months this year without snow. July and August. HOW DEPRESSING.
We went to the Fair! This year Reilly and Kameron planned to go with their love interests so it was just the four of us. We had a lot of fun seeing all of the sights, riding the rides, and eating all of the fair food!!
Our favorite food this year was scoops of cookie dough. It was delicious in all of its flavors!
Our favorite event was a crazy Pirate High Diving Show. It was AWESOME! The show itself was super cheesy but the divers were diving from 80 ft. high platforms into a tank of water. It was pretty impressive!
Ailey loved the giant Ferris Wheel as usual. LOL.
We had a great time!!
Bryn took a field trip with her activity day girls to the temple. They got a tour of the grounds and learned a lot. My friend Amy sent me all of these beautiful pictures.
We had Back-to-School Night at the high school and Ailey's ProStart class catered the event and it was delicious! Ailey also looked super adorable in her chef's jacket.
Ailey is also in a cooking club after school. Local chefs come and teach the kids all kinds of cool cooking techniques. She LOVES IT. Ailey wants to be a dietitian and is so into all of this stuff!! And... I finally got the mysterious recipe for the punch they serve every year. It is SO GOOD!
Ailey got new Dance Team pictures:
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| Ailey is on the front row...5th from the left |
Kameron finally finished up all of his dental work. His tooth implant was finally completed and the crown put on the morning of the day that my mom died. The week after Labor Day Kam went to Priest Lake with his girlfriend and her parents. He had a great time! He spent most of this month working hard, completing all of his mission paper work, and getting all of his interviews done.
The week before my mom died I found out that my BFF (from childhood and Springdell), Naomi's mom, the beloved Mrs. Winkler had passed away. Tyler and I were planning to leave the next day for Utah to attend Mrs. Winkler's funeral the day that my mom died. How very weird was that? My last conversation with my mom was talking about Mrs. Winkler and how many of our Springdell neighbors are gone now. The timing of both Naomi and I losing our moms a week a part was super strange although it did help to be going through all of this at the same time as one of my dearest friends.
The rest of the month was consumed with grief and family and plans and all that comes with something like this... it was a hard second half of September and October was brutal as well. We are now 5 days into November and things are still hard not just with losing my mom but with something else that is hard and scary that came up in October. We are hanging in there but life hasn't been easy and prayers are still very much appreciated.
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