The Feger Family: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

heard of Thumbtack?

You can review me there. (And lots of other places. I'm learning how important reviews are!)
With this website, you request a plumber, house cleaner, photographer, or whatever. Service providers who have set up a profile will then be notified that they have a potential local client. They can see the specific request, and if they want the job, they will contact that lead (potential client) and the client gets to pick. It's actually another reason that I could use a smart phone - I get texted that somebody in the area needs a photographer, so it would be best if I could be one of the first to respond, no matter where I am. I just started a new phone plan, my friend is one of the founders. It's $49/month for unlimited everything w/ no contract for Tmobile's 3G/4G service. I have been fine w/o data by calling people with smart phones when I need the internet and am out, but it's pretty much time to get with the times and buy a smart phone. Now have the data plan but am still looking for the phone. I actually got 2 months free and now my bill after that will be down to $29/month. Anyway, here's the website. www.solavei.com/tiffanyfeger. They use underground marketing, or word of mouth, so consider yourself ahead of the world since it just launched in October. Exciting!

I'm already planning how to work even smarter and how to profit next year with the photography business. My accountant brother told me about paying quarterly taxes, so I'll be doing that too. If only I had an in house accountant who could research cell phones, answer emails, and keep my books for me:)

Monday, October 29, 2012

Friday in October

It's beautiful outside!

My friends went to the beach. I considered it. Then I didn't feel like Wonder Woman, so I made the better decision to get some things done AND plan in the sand and water.

At home.

Witch hats!

A boat!

Tball (with uniforms finally)

My boys got to play outfield together.

Dylan hit with out a tee.

Isaac ended up using the tee, he doesn't mind though.

Dylan played 1st base a couple of times.

And so did Isaac!

The coach is great about rotating the kids around and taking the time to teach.

The boys slide AFTER the game instead of in it. Fun either way.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Pumpkin Patch! With Uncle JT

My littlest brother is going to the Philippines for 2 years. That's crazy. It's not crazy that he's going on a mission for our church, all of my 3 brothers and 1 of my sisters have gone. What's crazy, is the whole idea of a mission, and that it's considered normal! He has saved up all of the money himself to pay for the whole thing himself. He'll leave BYU where he's getting great grades and is on a dance crew. He's not even going to be able to dance or practice there. He just gave his ukulele away to our cousin, he won't be able to practice that either. He's going to live with a stranger, a couple of them. He's going to have to eat local food, and he's not that adventurous when it comes to sea food. He'll do fine with learning the language, teaching what he knows, serving strangers, loving everyone, embracing the early to bed/early to rise routine, but it's still amazing! I wonder if he has even had any second thoughts. Probably not that have sprouted from his own mind, just when others might have asked him. He masters whatever he has put his mind to and has great self control and wonderful examples and goodly parents and a testimony of the Savior's plan for all mankind and impressionable cute nephews who will write him so he has a lot going for him.

He came home for the summer to be a lifeguard before he left. His mission call said he didn't report to the Missionary Training Center (MTC) until Halloween, and since he was just seasonal at the pool, he had time to hang out with us for a couple of months! He taught some of my friends' kids swim lessons and went to a flippy gym and danced and studied a lot. I went to a movie with him and he babysat for me a lot. I'll miss him for more than his helpfulness with the school car line though. Sometimes I called him to just play with us.

Since he'll be at the MTC on Halloween, we went to a pumpkin patch with him one afternoon.

I took balloons that were left over from Tyler's morning photoshoot. I like green and purple (if only I had a girl) for pumpkin patches since orange is so boring. This balloon about flew away until Jonathan flew up to get it! He was holding Tyler and still was able to jump high enough to catch it!!!!

I'm not sure what look I was going for with the kids and balloons and pumpkins.

So I tied the balloons to a pumpkin for another lucky customer and let the kids be themselves.

Tyler rolled this one off by himself. I don't think he had a plan for it. Confusing.

The 3 older boys here took a lot of time to pick through the pumpkins. Jonathan asked them to find various superlatives ones, like best dressed, tallest, most likely to scare away goblins, etc. (Probably completely different ones, but they were searching!)

Tyler started sorting the baby pumpkins.

Dylan found his perfect pumpkin.

And so did Isaac. We bought them.

I'm so happy that Jonathan was there to give his pumpkin carving advice and assistance. Steven is usually the one to cave the pumpkin with the kids but we usually wait so it'll be fresh for Halloween night. This, on the other hand, is SO much less stressful. We checked carving a jack o lantern off of our list with more than a week to spare! So what that it rotted in a day in the hot weather.

Tyler found all of the toys laying around (and ones in the toy box) and put them into his push truck Darren made.

I had made crock pot chicken for tacos. It wasn't that delicious b/c I hadn't heated the tortillas. (Matt, one of my brothers who served his mission in Mexico told me that NO Mexican EVER eats a cold tortilla.)