Soccer, Allergies and Unwelcome Tenants

Hello and Happy October :)

FALL COLORS.  Autumn is officially here!

October is one of my favorite months in New England.  The leaves are changing, and when it's sunny, it is just breathtaking.  Time for up and down weather, nice-one-day-and-frigid-the-next!  For example, we have some beautiful sunshine right now, and it will be in the 70's this afternoon.  Last weekend, in contrast, Kara had a soccer game and it was cloudy. and windy. and in the 40's. Brutal.

CONFERENCE. We had a nice conference weekend...every 6 months we get a special broadcast from Salt Lake. "General Conference" is when church leaders and our prophet speak to us and give us counsel and encouragement.  It's always an uplifting weekend.  I come away wanting to be a better person.

Teresa, at BYU in Provo, Utah, got to attend the Saturday afternnon session, at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City!  That was an unexpected treat. One of the girls on her dorm floor got tickets from her parents, and a group of 7 of them went together.

ALLERGIES. Cleaning is sort of a necessary evil...I enjoy "Spring Cleaning" better than "Fall Cleaning," only because in the spring we have summer coming up to look forward to.  But the fact remains that the dusty corners that make Kara and I sneeze so much, need vacuuming in the fall as well.  She has allergies worse than I do, I think, but we both have itchy eyes and runny noses much of the time.  Our bunny Max has 2 shedding months of the year, and one of them is right now.  There's always something in the air :(

WINTER TENANTS? I only bring up "Fall Cleaning" because while I type this, I am staring at a spider in the corner of the window.  Fall also chases the spiders inside, who think they can set up shop and live with us in OUR house for the winter.  They are very wrong.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER..  Oh, I will include some soccer pictures of Kara, too...I tried to get creative and take some with slower shutter speed.

She's #3, in case you can ever see her number.  She plays "Sweeper," which is the last layer of defense before the goalie.  She protects the goalie, and hopefully the rest of the team protects her so she doesn't have to work so hard!  She's also reffing youth games on Saturdays.  Her schedule makes me tired but it's really just a couple of months...soccer is over at the end of October.

Have a great week!

Kari