We are back from a two day trip to Moab. Yesterday I thought maybe I could do a quick morning hike and then we'd leave, I could just go Grandstaff again. But then I remembered I didn't bring shoes, and that would be too cold to do in flip flops. Sophi wanted to get back so she could work and earn a little bit more money before she leaves for Korea. I told them I'd be ok to leave as soon as the sun was up. I didn't really expect them to take me literally. I didn't set my alarm last night, I was actually looking forward to sleeping in, but Sophi knocked on my door at 7:15 am! She said they (SNOD) were up and packed. Ok, I guess I'll get up. I packed Peter and Kat's backpacks last night. So we got in the car, made sure the apples and bananas were within reach, and we headed out. We made it to Spanish Fork before needing to fill up with gas. We got gas at Costco, but first we went in and I treated everyone to churros. Back home at 12:50. Unloaded the car and unpacked stuff. Corey and Lily both worked hard while we were gone. Lily worked on her class, good job, and Corey got good stuff done before they leave for Korea Thursday morning. Natalie started to work on a "Sally" outfit for Katharine to wear on Halloween, so she can match Peter (Natalie made his costume last month).
I don't think Kat has ever seen the Nightmare Before Christmas or knows who Sally is, but whatever. Natalie worked at completing the look tonight by painting Katharine's face blue with acrylic paint, ugh...
Katharine fell asleep before scripture with that on her face, and she got her face sweaty against the leather chair, and the paint rubbed off on the chair. I woke Katharine up by starting to wash it off so she doesn't get a paint mess on her pillow or blankets tonight. Kinda hard to take off... I'm going to ask Natalie to go a little lighter on the make up, or let's actually use make up and not paint. While I think it's also too bad that they can't just use costumes we already have, cause we have two huge bins, I'm proud of her for being creative and working on developing a skill. She identifies as a seamstress and she's learning on her own, so good job. She doesn't need any encouragement on being creative. It's in her blood. She is always doing something - makeup on her face, dressing up, I need to do a master list of all her creations. When she started Young Women in Jan 2025, her YW leader asked for a photo of Natalie to use for something in the YW room, and I had to use the family photos from 2023 cause, for the life of me, as I searched through two years of photographs, I could not find ONE normal picture of Natalie. They were all of her being over the top dressed up or making crazy expressions or being a big weirdo. Oh yay, here is a classic one that showed up when I searched in 2025, this was what I was working with when her leader asked for a photograph of their newest little Young Woman...
I was searching with words like "tape" "nose" but that took forever to find that. We'll call it
Ugly Fancy Nancy. So we'll put that at the top of a master list of Natalie being creative, and maybe I'll come back and add to this over the years. A few to add to it from this past month are from this past Sunday, when she did another skeleton face paint job:
Can you figure out this one? I'm not sure what I think of it...
And on October 4, she made braces for herself from earring backs, internet helped her learn how to do that.
Frizzy hair and glasses to complete the "nerd" look. You are very creative Natalie! I'm sure she'll surprise us with another creation very soon.
"Natalie is creative" - MASTER LIST
I stopped in my wheel tracks when I looked over and saw those red leaves against that blue afternoon sky. SO SO pretty. I'm still loving fall -
Favorite trail, favorite friend, and favorite season.
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