"Hey, I met some Mormons"

Thursday was one of those night we were triple booked.  Britton was supposed to help out at the cub scout pack meeting as a requirement for a merit badge, but that was the first thing crossed off the list.  He also had a soccer game at 6 p.m. across town and a required orchestra concert for both he and Jenna at 7 p.m.  Since his soccer game wasn't scheduled to end until 7:15 and he was supposed to be at the school at 6:30 and the locations were 20 min apart we had to do a little juggling.  His orchestra teacher said if he was there by 7:15 he would be fine (but Jenna still needed to be there by 6:30) and his soccer coach said he could leave during the game if he needed to.  So after running around and having his concert clothes at the school to change into when he got there he made it just in time to perform with his orchestra class.  Here are Britton and Jenna after the concert was over.

 

Britton's soccer game on Saturday was in Spanish Fork.  Since the girls and Jameson aren't fans of driving for combined 5 hours to sit and watch a soccer game, Adam and Britton set off around 9 a.m. for a day of travel and soccer fun.  Jenna, Korinne, Jameson and I headed out to the Homecoming parade for our local University.  In the 6 years we have lived here this was only my 2nd time attending this parade and I've been missing out.  It was such a fun parade!  We always have some kind of soccer commitment on the day of the Homecoming parade, but I'm definitely going to try harder to get there in the future.

 

Who doesn't love "The 'A' Team" playing the fight song on chimes in parade formation?

 

 

Or a guys fraternity roasting marshmallows with their fire breathing dragon and then handing them out to kids along the route?

Or a live band or two playing down the parade route?

Seeing the University marching band, cheerleaders and mascot and all of the different groups and organizations was very entertaining.  Oh, and the kids got A LOT of candy.

I love living in a college town where the community really supports the school.  With the beautiful fall colors and the fun atmosphere I couldn't help but say to myself, "I really love where we live."

Jenna has been asking to get her ears pierced so we decided to go and have it done while the boys were away.  Here she is getting ready.

 

She looked like she was going to pass out when they were getting ready to actually do it.  She may have been feeling a little regret with her decision at this point.  On the video she didn't even flinch, but said afterwards that it hurt more than she thought it would.

After hearing about everything that could go wrong and how much care they require for the first 6 months and seeing it happen, I don't think Korinne will be asking to have her ears pierced any time soon.  :-)

After Adam and Britton got home from their soccer travels we went to the 5:40 showing of "Meet The Mormons" at the theater.

 

 I told the kids to remember this moment because it would probably be the only time that all of us would be at the theater for a first run movie for a very long time. :-)  I was worried about Jameson, but surprisingly he did pretty well. We laughed, we cried, we thought it was really great and thanks to a movie gift card Britton got from his birthday a while back and the matinee price tag our donation to the American Red Cross wasn't as substantial as it could have been.  It was especially fun to see someone we knew well from our time living in Atlanta.  Fred Parker was a member of the Stake Presidency when we lived there and was featured in the film talking about his good friend, "The Bishop".  He is such a great man and it was sure nice to have a little blast from the past.