Landscaping

The landscaping is done and I think it looks pretty nifty!!

And here is our employee Jorge, coming back from doctoring the cows.

Halloween Party

Went to a Halloween party on Friday night.  My friend wanted me to host it with her and I had been dreading it but it turned out okay.  I'm not very costumy.  I don't have any good ideas for costumes.  I decided to order a nurses cap from Amazon and called it good.  Craig got to wear my stolen green hospital scrubs from back when I was working there.  We paired it with a white lab coat and he added his own touch - a prescription pad and pen which was actually a plain pad of paper.

He kept pulling it out to write prescriptions for people he thought needed one.  "Eat more Halloween candy."  Prescriptions like that.  I wish my doctor would write me those kinds of prescriptions.

It was a fun time.  We met some new people.  The new doctor in town came with his wife.  We sat by him and I introduced him to my husband, whom I said was also a doctor.  Dr. Jeffers, believing me, said "Oh really?  What kind of a physician is he?"  I said "A fake one."

It was a fun time.  

Brigham and Ellie performed in the Twelve Dancing Princesses this week at the theater in Preston.  They were SO GREAT.  Brigham had one of the leads as the beggar prince and Ellie was one of the beautiful princesses.  She was so pleased, it was the first time she's had a more major part.  She looked so beautiful up there.  And Brigham is always so much fun to watch.  He's a true natural.  

Barn Update

New pictures of the barn.  It's really beginning to take shape.  Soon we will have walls and a roof.  

  

Ellie's Cross Country

I am so proud of my girl.  She wanted to do cross country this year and I was like, "Really??"  Not that I said that out loud.  I just haven't considered our family to ever be very good runners.  Biking?  Yes.  Skiing?  Yes.  Swimming?  Yes.  Running?  NO.  I can barely run out to the mailbox and back.

She had practice all summer long and was so faithful.  After the first week she was talking about quitting and how hard it was, how she was no good, how she was the slowest..... I didn't want to discourage her, but I knew that the verdict was in and that the Campbells just were not good runners. 

She didn't quit.  She woke up early.  She reminded me about taking her to practice.  She came home and zonked out on the couch.  She took care of her own uniform.  

And she got better.  She wasn't the slowest anymore.  

Yesterday was her last meet.  Before starting, she said that she really wanted to get a medal this time. They give medals to the first twenty girls across the finish line.  Looking around at all the girls lined up, I said, "Maybe we should make your goal more about finishing within a certain time."  I thought there was no way she could get a medal.

But she did!  She came across the finish line SO FAST and got her medal!  

I am so proud of my girl.  She is a hard worker and she goes after what she wants.  She doesn't quit.

Maybe the Campbells ARE good runners. 

General Conference

Last weekend we went to Salt Lake with the three older kids for General Conference.  Hayes had to work until Saturday evening so Grandma Lynn dropped him off at the frontrunner train and he met us in Salt Lake late that evening.

Craig and Brigham leaving the hotel for priesthood session

Ellie had saved some money and wanted to donate it to Primary Childrens so that's what we did while  Craig and Brigham were at priesthood session.  We rode the Trax train up to the hospital.  We were seated on the train by a group of men who all seemed to know each other.  They were laughing and making jokes.  One dropped a five dollar bill out of his pocket and another one picked it up and put it in his own pocket and insisted that it was his.  A big laughing argument ensued about who the money belonged to, with Ellie and I chiming in.  During the joke, we explained that we were on our way up to Primary Childrens to donate Ellie's savings.  When they heard that, the whole group of men on the train started pulling money out of their pockets and giving it to Ellie to include with her donation.  It was incredible.  Until that point, I had been looking down on Salt Lake - it was too dirty, too many homeless people, too crowded, it took to long to get where you were going.  That experience changed everything.  It was wonderful.

After we got back from Primarys, we met Craig and Brigham for dinner.  We waited 90 MINUTES to get a table at the cheesecake factory.  It was okay but someone had spilled something under our table and it kept splashing up onto my ankles.  

Brigham and I waiting for our table.  It's Brigham's life goal to ruin every picture I take of him by acting like he is mentally handicapped.

When we got back to the hotel, Hayes was waiting for us and he insisted that Brigham go back out with him to get something to eat.  The rest of us went to sleep.  The next morning we all went to the morning session, which was wonderful.  It's good to actually attend the conference once in a while.  The feeling, the music, being with the saints....It's great.

Such a good conference.