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Pumpkin Farm-Russ, Allie and Jacob 10/20/10

 It's been well over a week since we've updated.  Tara went to church this week, her first time back and it was so wonderful to see everyone in her ward.  Our support from our ward has been amazing. There was lots of encouragement and thoughtful mention of prayer and worry in her behalf.  She taught her class and enjoyed seeing the kids.  She was rather pooped after the second hour and Russ took her home.

 Courtney finding her special pumpkin.  Good job Court 10/10

Tara had her post-op appointment and was given the green light to start getting back into normal life for a couple of weeks.  She has another surgery scheduled for the second week of November for thoracic outlet.  This is the surgery she would have had if they hadn't found the aneurysm.  This week was representative of  getting back on track with errands, her first big shopping trip to Walmart, and car pool.  It's amazing how busy we can get without even trying.  She also made it to the gym and did about 15  minutes on the stair climber, of course at a reduced level.  It was bitter sweet knowing where she has been.


It's tradition that we go to the pumpkin patch and pick out our pumpkins we've done this for the last 5 years or so.  We know someone that has a large farm and we actually cut them off the vine.  The kids look forward to it-we had one less child because Syd was helping a friend with an Eagle Project.


Yesterday evening we all went to the 4A State Girls Soccer Game.  It was up at the Rio Tinto Stadium home of the Salt Lake Real.   It was  Timpanogos vs. Bonneville.   Many of Courtney's club players play for  Timpanogos.  It was an excitting game and we enjoyed watching and  Court loved seeing her teammates play.  Bonneville came out on top 2-0, but not without great effort by Timpanogos.  They had several  shots and opportunities of scoring, but it wasn't meant to be.  The funny thing with soccer is you can give  your heart and soul and dominate the whole game and not come out on top.  It makes for exciting play.  We are looking forward to playing club again-and have some tournaments coming up.