The Varsity team made the playoffs and their first game was against Desert Hills. They had 1-1 against Desert Hills so they were hoping to have a good game. It didn't go their way, however, and Desert Hills won.
It was a challenging season with new coaches, a new system to learn, a high ankle sprain, and a new number. But Courtney did a great job keeping her head up during all the challenges and made the best of things.
Now we get to focus on the club soccer season and track. It never ends.
"Who wears shin guards during practice?" That's what Courtney asked me after she showed me her bruise. One of her teammates kicked her in the shins. Here is how her bruise has progressed.
I told her the purpose of having shin guards is to avoid something like this but she just rolled her eyes. Oh well.
Bryan has been hired as the Mesquite, NV City Attorney! We are really excited about this new opportunity. One concern was the commute down. We didn't have a car that wouldn't cost a lot for gas to go down and back. Bryan did a lot of research and found an electric car to buy. It's a Hyundai Ionix and is fully electric. It has a range of about 125 miles, which works because the round trip to Mesquite is 82 miles. Since we have solar panels, and we aren't using all the electricity we produce, it won't be much of a cost to drive the car there and back.
It was delivered and Bryan began trying to figure out how to drive it the most efficient way he could.
It has been a rainy start to October. I saw this double rainbow as I was running errands. I didn't get a very good picture of it, but you get the idea. It's cool to see the beauty in the world.
We have honeysuckle next to our front steps at our house. I love the smell of the honeysuckle when the flowers are in bloom. This year, we didn't have very many flowers and it wasn't as green as it has been in past years. I realized one day that I hadn't trimmed it in a couple of years. So I took the clippers and went to town. It was disgusting! There were molded leaves and all kinds of insects. I didn't get it all the way cleaned like I wanted to but after 2 hours, I thought I had made a big enough dent that I was ok with stopping.
Ethan likes to talk to us while he is cuddled under his blanket in his bed. ;) He took these pictures as we were chatting with him. It's fun to have family pictures when we are talking to him. haha!
