Last Soccer Games & Halloween Festival

Owen and Daniel had their last soccer games for the season today. The season schedule originally had the last games on the 10th to end before the fall break weekend, but they had one day of games cancelled cause of rain and lightening (Aug 29), so this was the make up for that. 

Owen's team played first (he's #14, oh yeah) and then Daniel. It was chilly but thankfully not rainy. 

Owen was boasting to himself about their team win on the way home, and he traced his finger along his jawline, which reminded me of the end of this BYU vs Notre Dame / Mormons vs. Catholics AI video that I saw yesterday, so I shared it with them, pretty funny. 

Hyrum got back from Iceland early yesterday morning. He spent the day recovering at Wayne's and then I was happy to see his car as we pulled in from soccer games. He was on the couch and gave his usual quiet smile. I gave him a hug and he said he has a man cold, so he didn't do or say much today, but still it was nice to have another adult in the house. We did some small talk, and he asked what happened to the chandelier light behind me. "Kids." That had been knocked over by a bouncy ball on Thursday? Then I thought "I've got 10 min right now, I'll go get the ladder and fix it." I got the ladder, took a few minutes to balance the glass bowl, but I did it. 

And then I thought I'd change the light bulb, and I now regret that, cause as I tried to remove the old lightbulb, it didn't spin out cause the whole light electrical base was loose, so as I turned it, the whole base turned, then a wire must have twisted cause there was a spark and poof of smoke, and now the lights don't work. Not the chandelier OR the ligths in the whole front room OR the lights at the top of the stairs. Yay... those are three very used lighting areas. I guess we'll be saving a little bit of $ on the power bill until we get this fixed. 

Ok, so that stinks. As I was doing and then regretting that, the kids were tearing through costumes in the basement cause they remembered there was a community Halloween festival today. So even though I'd already given my time to the kids this morning at soccer, I didn't get a break to go to the temple yet cause I had to take them over there cause I don't have any older kids to pawn this off on. H is not feeling well, Lily was at work and spare time went to her online class, Sophi in Korea, Natalie had friends over to sew/fix ballroom costumes. So it's on me. Ok let's go. 

I was proud that they made use of the costumes in the basement, though they did leave a huge mess for me. Why can they not put the costumes BACK in the bin? It takes 1 minute, sigh. So they went to the pavilion for the party. I told them I needed a minute/30 minutes alone. So I read in the car and they went. After 30 min I went to check on them. D&P, aka Ninja 1 and Ninja 2 eating donuts.

Peter got a balloon animal, a brachiosaurs. Then it was the costume contest. Each kid went up and said what they were dressed as. Toddlers first. Katharine was several things (Moana dress underneath the green Elsa dress) but she went with Elsa.

Two Ninjago brothers - Peter is Jay, Daniel is Kai.

Are you impressed I knew the characters? I didn't, had to google it. The funnest thing at the festival was seeing Brooke, one of toddler/little kid Abi's favorite people. And little Katharine about the age Abi was when Brooke was her primary teacher and their BFF-ness began. 

Brooke has a little boy that is 4 like Katharine. And the circle of life continues.

SO after the festival, I had a few pieces of candy there and back at home I wasn't able to leave yet for the temple or errands or anything so I tapped into my private stash of hardship ice cream as I continue to survive this week as a single parent (it's been nice knowing I always have a car) and then we turned on the tv to watch the last quarter of the BYU game against UCF - Univ of Central Florida. Just the last quarter, we thought...

It turned into DOUBLE OVER TIME and was as stressful as last week's game against Notre Dame, only without the win. I haven't felt that kind of anxiety in my stomach for a while. I don't think I'm built for any extra stress than my life already has. Then I finally went to the temple and did a session. Yes, that is what I should have been doing rather than watching the game. I decided I should not spend my time watching football, cause I didn't even like it. "Well someone has to do it! People are counting on this!" (Corey's quote from last week) While it was a little fun to trauma bond with Owen, I don't think I'll watch next week's game. I'll watch the BYU and Utah game ...maybe? Maybe the 4th quarter if it's close, (I'm not very hopeful for a BYU win so I'm guessing they'll be down and then I'll go to the temple instead, it's not busy on BYU game days) And after that I'm out. How does football make the world a better place? I guess people's livelihoods come from it. Is that reason enough? I trust God cares about our livelihood. Corey hasn't been working this week, he didn't get a power adaptor for his computer, so he's been present with Sophi for their whole trip so far! That is a rare treat she gets to experience!