What a delightful month, I remember feeling October was too much before our trip, but after getting back I feel so grateful for my life and all the beauties we experience here and all the people I love!
- Warmish weather persisted and I had some beautiful Saturday long runs with Fiora. Jared bought me new running shoes this month and they are perfect.
- We got our family pictures taken by Jesse and Kelsy for a Christmas card this year and because it's been nearly 2 years since our last photo shoot.
- I made it through my Regional Training committee assignment (a lot of work!) in Park City and learned a lot from that.
- I got to babysit Elsie Raymond my sweet niece 6 months younger than Juliette for an evening.
- Jared killed an Elk and I helped him butcher the meat and make beef jerky.
- We celebrated my mom's 69th birthday and Jared wrote her a suno song, "A composition for Kathryn" she loved it!
- Weston came to visit one saturday and he convinced me to go roller skating with him, wow is that tough!
- I was on the RS activity committee for the ward chili cookoff and won 2nd place overall on my chili! He is so good at it now.
- I also managed to get a flight to Mesa AZ to attend my uncle Lloyd Rappleye's funeral Oct 24, which was a major tender mercy for me and I was so happy to be there with my family.
- I was invited to do a sourdough demonstration for the Young women in our ward and had a fun time teaching them how to make sourdough, they loved the loaves I left them.
- We also celebrated McKay's birthday a few days early as we were to be travelling on the 28th.
- And finally FINALLY the landscaper started our backyard project I'd hoped would be done before we left for Egypt Oct 27 (spoiler it didn't get done until Juliette's birthday Nov 11).
- Last but not least, Jared participated in the Antelope Island buffalo roundup! What an experience! I didn't know such a thing existed. Glad he is safe, he is a tough manly man!
