October

Trips and Activities

James and Lewis, deer hunting x2. No luck this year. They had a few fun days together anyway.

James and Joseph, Esports competition in Price

Katie's first orchestra concert

hike to the dinosaur tracks at Red Fleet

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (James, me, Joseph, Anna)

Birthdays and Holidays

Katie's 12th birthday! Anna was visiting and we had a supposed showing, so we went to the park to open presents. We had key lime pie and cookies and cream ice cream as well.

Halloween. Our main thing was attending the ward Trunk or Treat.

Weather

really nice with a few cold days. No snow yet! The leaves were beautiful right up until Halloween when we got our first hard freeze. Now, everything is brown.

Sickness

I got my bloodwork done again, and my labs look great! Yay!

I think James and I had the flu (influenza) after Halloween because we were both extremely tired for a few days (and achy and queasy). I don't know for sure.

Repairs

replaced a light fixture out front that was ugly and didn't work for 10 years. It was much easier than I expected. I wish I'd done it sooner!

Projects

I painted both of the kids' rooms since they were the last unpainted areas of the house (within the last year). It took up 3 days of time, 1 for prep, 1 for actual painting, and another to put everything back together.

I had to time to do that because...

...we didn't get to move.

Honestly, it's been rough lately. Everything went well up till the day before closing (October 14th). I got a phone call saying there was a delay with the house we were buying because the sellers hadn't turned in some receipts in time. It was Fall Break and I thought, 1 day, no big deal. Then, our realtor who's working on selling our house showed up at our door. I figured that wasn't a good sign since he lives in the Salt Lake area now. He told us that there was a problem with the financing and that this house is trickier to finance than he'd realized originally. The loan our buyer wanted wasn't going to work, and they'd have to try something else. Less than a week later, we learned that our buyer was forced to back out (not his fault, but still).

At that point, I had packed up most of the kitchen and been trying to cook all week with limited ingredients and tools. The living room was full of boxes from the kids packing up their rooms. I moved boxes to closets and unpacked the entire kitchen.

I felt like I had just barely gotten back to regular life after painting the last 2 rooms, when my parents had a health issue and had to cancel their visit to Utah for the 3rd time this year.

We've had 1 showing in the past 2 weeks (the time back on the market).

God's timing always works out, but I sure don't understand it right now. I also hate the home selling/buying process much more than I ever could have anticipated. The home we're trying to buy is still available, so we'll keep on waiting and doing small projects around here till we get to move (hopefully).