Dream Job

On the last Friday in September we were able to watch our niece Rachel get married in the Spokane Temple. The children stayed at the White's house (5 minutes from the temple) during the sealing, but we hurried out of the temple so that we could pick them up so they could see the happy couple as they came out of the temple hand in hand as husband and wife. Rachel was a beautiful bride and she deserves to be happy for making correct choices in her life. She is a good example to our children. 

We took pictures at the temple while waiting for the wedding photographer to take pictures.

Does the dress look familiar? This is the dress that Makayla wore to Alan and Amber's wedding.

It ended up being a very cold day (51 degrees and raining off and on). I had to take a picture after Benjamin offered his coat to his little sister. Such a gentleman, just like his dad.

We went to school for school pictures on Wednesday, and as we were leaving I couldn't resist taking a picture with the fall colors in the background. 

Marianne being a big tease (as always).

Saturday morning there was a cross country invitational meet where Mindy and Maddy both ran (at separate times). Mindy is really improving. The sixth graders usually run separately from the 7th and 8th graders, but yesterday they were all combined in one race. Mindy ran her best time and even beat girls on her team older than her (she was the only sixth grader there). She got her best time yet!

Maddy has been dropping her time at each meet. Maddy also PR'd (personal record) at the meet yesterday. But that is not the most exciting news of hers for the week. The most exciting news for the week is that she got her dream job. Last winter she worked as a ski instructor at the ski hill. She did well and mostly enjoyed it. It was tiring and cold and didn't end up paying very well (she only got paid when she was teaching a lesson. Some days she would go up there and not even teach a lesson). She had to let the ski hill know by Oct 1st if she wanted to return this year. She really didn't want to, but she wanted a job to earn money (she really wants her own cell phone w/texting which would cost $20/month to add her to our plan). She heard about a job opening at Akers United Drug (a Ben Franklin Craft store that has a pharmacy in the back and sells other merchandise as well.) This would be a walk in the park compared to working outside in the snow! She turned in her application, but didn't hear anything for a couple of weeks. She filled out her paperwork for the ski hill and was ready to fax it in when she got a phone call to schedule an interview... for Oct 1st. Well, she was hired on the spot and has been floating on cloud nine since then. They are willing to work around her last 2 weeks of cross country, and with drivers ed on top of it all, she is going to be a very busy girl! She can handle it, though. 

We enjoyed watching conference at home this weekend. Barry normally would drive up to Colville for priesthood and was excited to hear that it would be online. They did end up showing it at our church building, so Barry went there and said there was quite a turn out.

Have a great week!