365+1 Week 43

As you may have noticed, holiday's, my birthday, and fall clean up around the house has kind of put the photo posting on hold!! Never fear though, I have still been taking photo's- here are the photo's from two weeks ago for your enjoyment and I will be back tomorrow with last week!!

Photo's #295-301:

This Sunday night was our Young Women in Excellence event.  As part of the program I had my Beehive class do a runway fashion show to display the skirt sewing project we had worked on over the last month.  This is the skirt that I made- having wanted a chevron print skirt for some time I figured "Why not make it now!" and I just love how it turned out.  All the girls looked great and it was a blast MCing the event on the fly!!

First time back on the old tread mill this season.  Paul and I purchased this trusty rusty 11 years ago, nine months into our marriage.  A week later I was surprised to find out I was unexpectedly pregnant! Sadly, 12 weeks later, things took a  turned for the worst and ended in a painful miscarriage, and was promptly followed by another equally devastating pregnancy sorrow.  My heart was broken beyond repair. After a couple months of despair, doubt and fear, this tread mill nurtured my feeble heart back to the living. It helped me rebuild my lost self esteem, confidence and knowledge that my body could do hard things, and achieve whatever I desired it to do.  Is it silly to have such an emotional response to a piece of plastic and electronics? Maybe so, but it will be a sad day when it decides it is done supporting me along and helping me move forward one step at a time.

"Jack o lantern" was my prompt, but we had not carved any yet! So this was the best I could do!! They are such cute little guys, sitting up there on my shelf all happy and smiley!!

Play date with a school friend.  Liv and her sweet school buddies like to take turns going home to each others houses after school.  Today we hosted her bestie and they had a great time playing games and giggling together for hours.

"In My Town" First snow of the season! The girls were out of school and kept thinking they could go out and build a snow man or make a snow angel.  They had forgotten just how much snow is needed for those things and sadly it was all melted by that afternoon.

Today (with the girls out of school still)  was the semi-annual-great big-closet-change-out.  Every fall and spring the girls clothes have to be rotated. Summer things have to go to make room for the winter wardrobe.  It is a completely daunting task!! I kind of detest it!! But the girls look forward to it because what was old is now new again.  In the end it was great to purge out all the items outgrown and worn out. Piles were packed away until the next girl fit it, some were bagged up to send to family and others were shipped off to the donation center.  All the coats, hats and scarves made their way back to the closet, but only after a few hours of Eva placing them on her fav's so they could be stylish cute and cozy to!!

Sneak peak of our Halloween costumes next week!! We went to a neighborhood costume party and had a complete blast with all our friends.  We took these lemon coconut cupcakes (a current obsession of mine) and had a spooky good time, young and old alike.  Thanks again Gutke's for hosting!!! (Please disregard the dirty old pan that was somehow selected to display these darling cupcakes!!)