Fall break

It's been admittedly a little anticlimactic.  There was nothing big or exciting, but I did learn how to play backgammon.  So there's that.

We went to BYU to visit Braeden and help him cement his plans for next semester.  He likes the moral support.

We were hanging out in the law building, laptops open.  Mark was across the way.  We spotted a person dressed like french fries so Braeden indicated to Mark to take a picture.  Then Mark texted Braeden this.

Brothers.

Friday night we watched Hello Dolly at the Hale Theater.  Amazing.  After we went to McDonald's for hot fudge sundaes and as it turned out chicken nuggets because we have children that are always hungry.  A group of kids rolled in, dressed to look tough (or as tough as it gets in Utah County).  They said "Hey" to Mark and he did that head nod thing that boys do to acknowledge each other.

Braeden said, "Of course, the neighborhood toughs come in and they know Mark."

My mom said once when Mark was a preschooler that he should be a politician because he walked around shaking hands with people at church.

Saturday night we watched Wall-E.  We were in the mood after Hello Dolly.

The kids borrowed the van for the weekend so Emma, the star girl, could go in the canyon for the Orionid meteor shower with her friends and so Braeden could take a group to a corn maze.

I was mostly sick with a mild cold all weekend (that prevented me from being enthusiastic about getting up at 5:00 AM to go to Arches National Park on Saturday like Adam and Mark wanted to do).  Instead, they made me chicken noodle soup for lunch.  There was a bit of a chicken bouillon mishap and the soup was salty but it made me feel better.  Adam said maybe what they really made was soup concentrate.

Also Saturday Emma texted me this picture:

She was part of a mock disaster drill and had makeup to make her look like she had brain trauma.

It broke my heart.

Then she sent this picture:

Adding some abrasions to the brain trauma.  Lovely.

The smile did help me feel a little better.

Yesterday our college darlings came for dinner and Braeden asked if he could invite one of his roommates.  The answer will always be yes.  The more the merrier.  I tried a new recipe which was a flop.

Maybe the answer should always be OK, but it may not be very good.