Most of November

Monday Nov. 2nd

The deer liked to come and eat what was left of our tomato plants.  

Thursday Nov. 5th

Relief Society Craft Night-- we made a simple wooden nativity that was really cute.

Friday Nov. 6th

Jim and Garrett flew to California to see a BYU game with Josh.  The game was Friday night and they stayed with Josh and Tanya, then came back Saturday night.  It was a short trip, but they had a fun time.

Saturday Nov. 7th

I had Paige babysit while I took Maggie and Lydia to see the new church movie, "Once I was a Beehive."  It was a cute movie!

Hanging out with the California McKibben's for the day!  

Garrett and Josh

They went to a Monarch Butterfly preserve that looked pretty cool.

Garrett, Josh, Caleb, Hannah and Luke

Garrett said that Jim struck up a conversation with one of the guides and talked and talked about wildlife and stuff.  

Sunday Nov. 8th

We went over to the grandparents' house for dinner and Grandma was teaching Noah how to play Angry Birds (I think) on her ipad.  

Thursday Nov. 12th

The kids didn't have school on Wed, Thurs or Friday, so we booked a trip to Great Wolf Lodge for Thursday and Friday.  We probably got there around 3 or 4, got checked in and then hit the pool.  

We ate pizza for dinner and then the kids got started on their MagiQuests.

It was so busy that we had to wait in line to use the wands in some places.  

Pixie Hollow

Noah howling like a wolf.  He has a thing for wolves.  He's too funny!

Friday Nov. 13th

Great Wolf Lodge is not the place I would pick to spend my birthday, but it was still fun.  My birthday trip would come the next day...more on that in the next post.  

We had to be out of our rooms by 11, so we hung out in the lobby for a bit while the kids were on their magiQuests.  Noah was eating leftover pizza for a snack.  

Then he got his energy back and started howling like a wolf again!  

Eating lunch a bit later before getting into the pool again.

Bella in the wave pool

with Maggie and Lydia.  The wave pool is everyone's favorite.

Paige and Noah slurping some slurpees.

We left around 7:30 and drove home in the dark in a down pour the whole way home.  The kids had a fun time!!  They'd love to come back every year, but I'm good with the every 2-3 years schedule we've got going on.  

Friday Nov. 20th

Bella was student of the month, so I came to take pictures of her.

Waiting for her turn

Mrs. Sheller saying all sorts of nice things about Bella.

Her two teachers, Mrs. Sheller and Mrs. Gutierrez

This is what they said about her.