November

This was a great Thanksgiving weekend.  I took Wednesday off from school and got the house cleaned with really lowered the stress factor in my life.  The weather is a little warm for my taste--especially for late November.

Thursday was a wonderful day filled with great food and great company.  We had 24.  Claye had to work and Amber has to stay home because Carter was sick.  We sent them home food though so all they missed was our excellent company.

Friday Sam, Gary, Susan (Rich’s daughter) went to see the movie Lincoln.  It was excellent even though we did have to stand in line for too long.  Abraham Lincoln was the perfect man for his time!  After the movie, we all went to Rosa’s to eat.  Gary, Chris, and Sam headed home so Chris could work on Gary’s new computer.  Stephen, Rich, his girls and I headed over to the temple to see the lights.  Now it was about 70 degrees outside and there were people there with jackets and hats.  I don’t know if they were doing it because they were looking at Christmas lights and if they were really cold.

Now that this weekend is almost over, the craziness begins!  Tuesday night is our Relief Society Party.  Sam has more than seven concerts between now and December 19.  He has a solo in the PCC concert and they are going to be on TV Tuesday night on channel 12.  We’ll see if he makes the cut for TV.  His jazz group is singing for our Relief Society party.  I can’t wait!  I also love to go hear Chorale sing at the temple.  There is nothing like Christmas lights and music together.

Lily is very excited for Christmas.  We plugged some Christmas lights on.  She screamed joyfully, “Christmas!”  I can’t wait until she sees the lights at the temple.  Kate smiles all the time.  We love them both!!!  This picture is Rapunzel and her friend the elephant on Halloween. The wig only lasted about 20 minutes.  But it was cute while it lasted.  For the longest time, we only had Rapunzel.  Lily was off to preschool somewhere.  Rapunzel’s dad was Flynn Rider and her poor mom was Lady Gothal. (The villain in Tangled.)  Now we have Lily back until she decides to be someone else.

Have a joyous and festive December.  We will!!  Dinner at our house on Christmas Eve and Claye and Rakay’s on Christmas.  I don’t want it to come too soon though.  We have the whole month of December to enjoy!