We got a new Christmas Tree! I love it so much. Gwen playing Puck in a Midsummer Night’s dream at the middle school. She rocked it!! The rest of the cast–not so much. And her costume was the cutest by farFluffy Dash right after a grooming
Parade of Lights was particularly fun this year. I’m not exactly sure why. Maybe because we left really early so we weren’t stressed about traffic or being late. We hit up the giving machines, and then on our way to the hotel, we stopped on 16th Street at taco bell. We had all our stuff with us so Rusty sat outside. He looked homeless. It was hilarious. Then we did an escape room–all the kids loved that. Christmas Party with the SchofieldsWelp….those four months FLEW by. Heritage Halls, you’ve been good to this boy. We’re sad its all overToronto, here they come! It’s mission season around here. So excited for these two and the fun adventure they are going to have. I happened to be in Utah when the call came, but Rusty and Blake watched via Zoom. Scissor lift fun! Josh and Rusty replaced all the old tennis lights with new LED lights. It was quite the process. I bet they spent at least 12 hours figuring it all out and getting them all done. Thank heavens for mild weather. This scissor lift provided endless entertainment over the week. Including getting stuck on the grass and Cohen had to come tow us out with his truck. Sent our annual Krispie Kreme Christmas donuts to these starving college kids. Christmas Bingo in Erie! The blackout prize this year was a 3D printed Cave of Wonders candy dispenser. I was pretty proud of this one. Christmas Bingo in Provo!! Friends who make me know that at least some people with reason and intellect still exist on this planet. Christmas Bingo in Ft Collins!Dash’s favorite spotErie Country Christmas. We wrapped Blake’s drums this year so he was extra festive. This is the place State Park Christmas. It was a rainy night so we practically had the place to ourselves!My little scientist! Love this girl. She is working so hard navigating next steps after she graduates in the spring. Cougars do sports right. This game at the Marriott Center was so high energy. Josh got to Light the World at the Marriott CenterCleaning all the junk out of the shed. I’ve been waiting for this day for a looong time.
Owen’s Farewell! Ascension, Paraguay, here he comes!Last time the Banksberry bunch will be together for several years as Josh, then Claire, then Blake, then Max go on their missions! Fun story–Claire surprised her family with her mission call. They didn’t know her papers were in. They went on a cruise over the new year and she wanted to do it then. Josh and I told her she wouldn’t have wifi, so she couldn’t access her call. So, she gave Josh her login info and we printed it for her to take with her. It was so fun! And she’s going just where she wanted–Porto Allegre, Brazil.
My children have NOT been acting very nice to each other lately, so we decided to have an FHE on why it was important to treat your siblings kindly. The result…..
The M.O.M’s had a crazy weekend competing in our 4th annual Ragnar. This time we opted for something a little different. An 8 person team running trails around Zion National Park. After driving and yapping all day long, we arrived late Wednesday night to our amazing cabin at Zion Mountain Lodge. Nat and I got…
Taken from Rusty’s journal again. He makes my job so easy! Again, sorry for the stream of consciousness writing. He loves it and I’m too lazy to fix it 🙂 Sunday we landed @ SFO. The Lyft ride from SFO into the city was great. Half the fun of Lyft & Uber is getting to…
Rusty’s Grandma passed away on March 8th. We had the wonderful opportunity of flying to Utah to attend her funeral. It was such a memorable occasion, and it was so nice to reconnect with family that we hadn’t seen in a long time. The weekend started with a family get-together at Jolene’s Condo at Thanksgiving…
It’s official. Summer is over and we are back in school. It was quite the crazy morning. Halle’s bus comes at 7:32 which is WAY earlier than we are used to being ready for school. We were rushing like mad to pull everything together and were running down the street to catch the bus. We…
Thursday morning Tara and I took the car to the golden gate park for a tempo run. We were both kind of tired and maybe tired of running so the conversation was tough. We just focused on running and ended up running the whole thing very fast, faster than our goal pace. Afterwards since we…
