Monday, I had a Zoom meeting with the other CHILD 330 instructors. It ended up just being me and the other instructor who started last Fall with me, so it was a short meeting. I’m already getting into a good routine with my classes this semester. My students are awesome! I have three students who had babies within the last two weeks. I’m not sure how they’re staying on top of everything, but they are!
In my attempt to better love fall, I decided to get a couple more fall decorations. I found these at TJ Max.
Then I went to Seagull Book. They had a special event going on-kind of the sister celebration they used to do during General Conference. I entered in some drawings, and I got to choose a free gift with a purchase. I bought the grey sign and got the pumpkin sign for free! Having cute decorations makes me so happy!
I got another African Violet this week! I ordered it online from the same greenhouse my other one is from. This one has pink blossoms. They are supposed to have blue speckles, but so far they are just pink. They’re very cute though! I named her Gertrude. 🙂 I love that I finally found a plant I can keep alive (crossing my fingers this new one gets settled in well).
Mark stayed busy with class work this week, but also found time to go grouse hunting with Dr. Conover. They didn’t see any though.
Friday night, was our ward camp out! People could start setting up tents at 4:00 and dinner was at 6:00. We weren’t staying over night, so we got there about 5:30. We were the only ones there!! The couple who planned the camp joked that we could each have our own crock pot of soup. Luckily, more people showed up in time for dinner! We had so much fun visiting and stayed for the campfire. It was FREEZING. I’m glad we didn’t stay all night! We loved singing primary songs around the fire and seeing the bishopric’s silly skit. We love our ward so much. They’ve become a second family and it’s going to be hard to leave them when Mark graduates. Luckily that’s not for a little while longer!
A sister in our ward, Sister Lyons, posted on Facebook that she wanted to do a fun challenge. Every week you watch The Great British Baking Show, bake one item from the episode, and then post a picture on the Facebook group she made. I decided to join the group!! This week, I made mini cake rolls. It was convenient that I made my first cake roll last weekend! I did chocolate cake rolled with mint flavored whipped cream (it’s definitely easier to roll a cake with cream cheese). I then covered them in chocolate and sprinkled Andes mints on top. They were pretty messy, but tasted good.
Saturday morning, we packed a picnic lunch and drove up Logan Canyon to Temple Fork. The leaves are starting to turn beautiful fall colors. We found a nice little place to pull off and played with my bow and arrows. We’re pretty sure we were in the exact same place where we took engagement pictures and I had to walk through cow pies in my wedding dress!
My first shot was really good! I progressively got worse the longer I went though. I wish there was a place closer where I could practice more because it’s a lot of fun. Mark did great! His arms are much stronger than mine, so he makes it look easy!
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