September Activites

September is the month of football and canning and still working on the house as a Labor Day activity. We first started out though with a garage sell that Maddie is famous for. It became an extended family activity including a lemonade stand.


We went to BYU's first home game against Boise State the second week of the season and BYU won that game in a come from behind fashion just like they had done the week before against Nebraska.

 The next week Mark and I took Dad golfing. We had planned to go to Wolf Creek. It had rained hard for a couple of days but was clearing up the day we were scheduled to go. It had even snowed on the mountain peaks the evening before. As we came into Ogden Valley there were some beautiful low clouds hanging over the Valley. We ended up not golfing there since the would not allow carts on the course because of how wet it was and went back over to play at the Barn.

The next day was Friday and uncle Archie was receiving an award from Weber High and being inducted into their hall of fame. Others inducted the same night were Olean Walker (former governor) and Marlin Jensen (former church historian) so he had good company. Jed read an introduction about his dad at the ceremony.

Then it was off to Fremont to watch Nathan play for Fremont and to watch Payton dance at half time.

The final event was going to the David Archuleta concert. He had two concerts which were both sold out. We went to the second one. He had been sick and the show was cut short on Saturday from what we had heard. He mentioned he was still under the weather at our show as was trying to save his voice so he had his younger sister come out during breaks and read things he had written. He did the whole show and an encore. He mentioned about the experience of recording Glorious which is at the end of the Meet the Mormons movie. He talked about being called in by his mission president and told about the request to have him record and that he had to make the decision now as arrangements were being made to record in Chile. We thought about Tom and Renae Warren who are our friends and were his mission president and going to have to ask them about that when they get back.  It was really enjoyable and he was so down to earth and so humble about his talent.