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Life got busier for K with the start of club volleyball.  This year she is practicing twice a week instead of once a week like last year and is also doing conditioning once a week, which she didn’t do at all last year.  I am so proud of her being able to have Acro, Young Women’s and now volleyball 3x a week and still keep up with her homework and have the energy to do things like have fun at her school’s fall social and have her best friend over to spend the night.  K is such a strong girl and I wish her the very best this volleyball season and am looking forward to seeing her perform her Acro routine at the Holiday Show next month.  K also went to a special showing of the Harriet Tubman movie as part of her social studies class. Hubby is also plenty busy with not only work (as always) but he is currently the Sunday School President and the EQ 2nd Counselor — and with the changes recently made to the duties of the bishopric and EQ, he is basically the ward mis...

K and I got to start off October right by going to the Jonas Brothers concert in Denver.  It was a blast!  We enjoyed the opening acts and it was a great blend of old and new Jonas music plus Cake By the Ocean, one of K’s all time favorite songs.  They did a great job and my watch warned me that the sound was over 95 decibels and that I was in danger of hearing loss but it was totally worth it. A couple days later M got to spend the night at a farm with her 4th grade class and absolutely loved it.  She was in her element and was totally fine without having a parent chaperone (for the first time).  I’m grateful she could have such an experience.  While she was gone D and N had their parent teacher conferences and it was so fun to hear how much their teachers enjoy having them in their classes.  The next week when K and I went to her first middle school conferences it was fun to hear teacher after teacher saying what a joy she was to have in their...