Here we are in December already and it's time to highlight some of the things that have been going on in November!
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| This year all of my kids plus a couple of neighbor friends and a cousin (Katie) took most of their Halloween candy and we filled a box to send to the soldiers in Afghanistan. Some of them made a card too and got very creative. We sent the box to Curtis and he shared some candy with those he works with and the soldiers. They all really enjoyed it. |
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| I had the great opportunity to take my kids to the Boise LDS Temple open house. We also had our neighbor friend Ashlie and her daughter there with us. |
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| Jack was having a little fun with his underpants. I think he's enjoying being potty trained now. Don't worry these are clean! |
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| We had a night of spiking hair. I told Nikki hers was too long so she held it up. Jack is also sporting a shiner on his cheek that he received that week when he fell and hit the piano bench. It cut pretty good on the inside of his cheek. |
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| Nikki has been having a great time playing basketball this Fall. This was her 2nd year playing. |
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| We had some small pumpkins that Grandma Vernie gave us so we made turkies out of them for Thanksgiving and took them to Grandma Norton's on Thanksgiving day for decorations. |
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| During Thanksgiving weekend we had fun putting together a gingerbread house. I put the house together and then I let them do most of the decorating on their own. |
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| Then a few days later we made a train. They were both beautifully decorated and yummy! |
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| The train is heading for a tunnel! Watch out! |
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| Yep, even I had some. Yummy gingerbread! |
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| Our neighbor was showing Nikki his sword he had gotten when he was a kid. He grew up in California where the church was very small and his teachers gave him this as a reward/gift for getting his Faith in God award. They were an older couple and it was just their thing that they liked to do with the boys who got their Faith in God awards. |
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| The Sunday after Thanksgiving we got our tree put up! |
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I was also able to get our Christmas lights up during the last week of November. Yep, I even got up on the roof to get above the garage. I told the boys to watch so that if I fell they could go tell someone. They just thought it was cool that mom was up there. I'm just thankful our roof is not too steep. I'm also thankful for timers on our lights so I don't even have to think about turning them off and on every day. Sometimes I just love technology! And luckily I got the lights finished before it rained that day, as you can see the driveway is wet.
Now time to enjoy the month we celebrate Christmas! It would make this holiday season so much better though if Curtis was here to share it with us! |
