This Family of Five: September 2021

Thursday, July 21, 2022

September 2021

Emmie was asked to give her first talk in sacrament meeting. She did a great job! However when the meeting ended she came to our bench and was clearly upset. She was crying and telling us how horrible her talk had been. The exact words out of her mouth were "The deaf group was silently judging me!" Which just made us laugh.

September brought some changes for Ainsley as well. She was asked by her piano teacher Miss Amy, if she would like to work as a piano teacher at her studio. Which was expecially awesome because she would make $20 per hour! Ains couldn't pass up the job, but this meant that she would have to quit working at Welch Music. So after a lot of stress and worry, she eventually told her grandparents the sad news. Although, while Ainsley liked working with her grandparents, she hated working retail and really didn't like working when her grandparents weren't there, so it was a good change for her all the way around.

Ainsley and Emmie also got to work together for a bit during the soccer season. They both worked on the PAL soccer fields. Ainsley as a field coordinator, and Emmie as an assistant ref. The both only worked for the fall season but it was nice that they were able to be there toegher and earn a little money at the same time.

Owen also officially started his cross country career. His first race had about 20 schools at it. And it was crazy to watch. He was on the JV team and there were hundreds of runners with him at the starting line. His first race was a little rough. He bumped into another runner and had a misstep and rolled his ankle and fell. He ran the rest of the race with a hurt ankle. It wasn't his best time, but he did great for his first race and under the circumstances.

Ainsley also got her senior pictures taken in September. We did one photo shoot down by the river in Eagle. And on another day we drove up to McCall for some beautiful fall shots. Sadly, there was a problem with the SIM card for her McCall photo shoot. Ains and I were both completely disappointed. I'm so sad about it. But we got some great shots of her for her grad announcements.

I also took the kids on a trip to Salt Lake. Ainsley's friend Elisabeth had a sister getting married. We weren't able to make it to the reception for Sarah, but we still managed to get the girls together for some fun. Ains and I went bowling with their family, and the girls spent most of the day together.

I also took Owen and Ainsley on a tour of BYU while we were there. There was a lot of talk about BYU applications and getting these girls into BYU while we were there! These two have been planning on being roommates at BYU since they were 10.