Alex went on a couple of work trips in September.
Weston had a fun friend birthday party, which was steam punk murder mystery. Weston had to go in costume as a steam punk adventurer.
I cut my own hair the beginning of September and then cut it shorter again the next month. I didn't really want a short hair cut unless I could maintain it on my own. I didn't want to keep paying for maintenance cuts every few months. Savannah looked cute for her school picture day. She did a new painting of Kai. She loves the dog!
A highlight for the month was having the missionaries over for dinner. Elder Parks had just started his mission, with his home ward being my sister's ward in TX where her husband is the Bishop. I got to show him the video Audrey had recently posted of the choir singing. He recognized the soloist and got a little piece of home. Owen's seminary class had fun making a pyramid one morning. We discovered Weston's plastic spoon collection (from school), which he was carrying around in his backpack. So weird. It was pretty cool to see the dew drops on the spider webs. It wasn't cool walking head on into one of those webs another day (when I didn't see the web). When I discovered that I also had the giant SPIDER from the web on my hat, I flung my hat off pretty quick! Blah.
About the middle of September, our clothes washer broke. We did some loads by hand before we got a new used washer. The dryer still works. Shortly after the washer broke, our fridge also stopped working, so we also had to buy a new used fridge. We're not sure how long these used appliances will last, but we didn't really have money to buy anything (with our Utah housing woes). It was funny that we immediately covered the whole fridge with chore charts, reading charts, and magnets again - also a little weird.
Anyway, Weston's mini fridge came in handy during the transition. This was a little amusing, because we picked up the mini fridge a couple months earlier off the side of the road. It said "free" and even though I said we didn't need it, Weston insisted that he needed it and wanted to bring it home and put it in his room. I guess it turns out we did need that mini fridge for a bit - another of Weston's "prophecies." He's had a few other times when he said or had some random little prophecy. He asked for toilet paper for Christmas 2019 (right before the 2020 toilet paper shortage). He said he wanted to visit Ukraine "while it still lasts". A couple months later, Russia invaded Ukraine. He wanted to buy Ford stock with his "Covid money" but Alex didn't let him. And then Ford's stock prices went way up (should have listened to Weston on that one). We say he has the gift of prophecy, but it just comes out at random times. He can't predict the future or the stock market, but sometimes he says or does something that has us marveling.
I did a lot of yard work, cleaning, organizing, and decluttering in September. I made a lot of progress, but it also felt like I was just doing manual labor all month - which was tiring.
September wasn't a great month, but I also enjoyed Owen practicing singing for his solo for his choir class. He doesn't like the way he sounds, but I enjoyed hearing him practice.
