Thanksgiving Week

11/24: The girls wanted to go jump on the trampoline and had to put lots of winter gear on. They're having fun out there and don't mind that the trampoline is covered with leaves.

11/27 {Thanksgiving!}, from FB post: Watching the Macy's parade with my girls. For the first time ever, we didn't have a homecooked Thanksgiving meal. We went to Cracker Barrel with Kiki's family. It was nice for Kiki and I to not have to cook but I sure was missing my mom's huge, awesome Thanksgiving feast! Kiki's fam is coming over in a bit to watch the LSU game with us and we'll have roast beef poboys and pies. I have so much to be thankful for! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
 Some family photos before we were seated at our table:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 During dinner:

 

Kiki and her family went home for a few hours to relax, and we all took naps, then they came over to our house to watch the LSU game (we beat Texas A&M!) and we had roast beef sandwiches, and lots of snacks, including Kneader's pies--coconut, and banana cream, yum!

11/28: Makenna loves to look at rotten teeth on Google Images on my phone. Little weirdo! So gross! She always says, "They need to brush their teeth and go to the dentist!"

11/29: We went to the Lehi Santa Parade and tree lighting, where we had cookies and hot cocoa and heard children's choirs.

 

 

The tables turned today and Jared had to take the girls to church by himself, heh heh. I just started taking some new medication and is making feel so sick!  I hope it passes soon!  Our Christmas season starts tomorrow, as we are planning on decorating the tree and taking the girls to get Santa photos some time this week.  Maybe we'll go and pick out a real tree, too.  So much to do in December!  And I've already been working on their birthday party! :D

Poor Whiskers! :) And their first friend's birthday party!

Here are some pictures from 11/5 that I didn't post last time--the girls were giving Jared a check-up, then did the same for Whiskers:

11/12: Just brought the twins next door to play with their friendboy. Brrrrrrrrrr! My phone says it's 29* out there!

11/13: Silly kitty! Tongue sticking out while napping on my chest. :)

11/13: So I was probing the twins for info as to what they'd want from Santa and guess what Makenna asked for? Drums! They got into the storage space under out stairs yesterday, where we keep our Guitar Hero drums, and now she wants her own. :D

On 11/14, I went and had an MRI done on my back.  I thought they were gonna do one on my back AND neck so now I'll have to talk to the dr. and go through the whole thing of trying to get the insurance to cover an MRI on my neck.  So frustrating.  Plus, it's been over a week now and and I still haven't heard any results or anything!  Aaaargh!  I'm so fed up with health insurance these day.  I also have a prescription that hasn't been approved after over a month!!  Anyway...

11/15: Ha ha!  I hadn't even thought yet about what our kitten is gonna do to our Christmas tree. It's not gonna be pretty! He is gonna go NUTS with it, no doubt. Need to come up with some sort of plan...

11/15: The girls attended their first non-cousin (a neighborhood friend) birthday party.  They were SO EXCITED when they got the invitation and asked about it at least once a day for over a week from the time they got the invitation 'til the day of the party.  It was a Little Mermaid party and all the girls were asked to wear princess costumes, so the twins were happy to be able to be Elsa and Anna again.  "Ariel" showed up and played games with the girls, sang songs, did face paintings, sang happy birthday, ate cupcakes, helped open gifts and signed autographs.  The twins had a blast and REALLY can't wait for their birthday party! :)

Jared flew out really early Sunday morning, 11/16, to go back East, so it was one of those Sundays where I got to take the girls to choir practice and do church with them by myself.

11/17: I babysat the girls' friend, Jason, and his little brother and the girls had fun playing with Jason.  They played some games, including Twister, which was pretty fun to watch, hee hee!

Notice Avery dress-up clothes: A pumpkin costume skirt, a butterfly cape, and Minnie Mouse ears, ha ha!

11/19: More kitty torture, ha ha! First, the girls were playing with him in the princess castle, sending him back and forth through the little doorway--I took that photo with the video monitor camera before I went in there and told them to stop. Then, I have some baby stuff out in the foyer so I can take pictures and try to sell it all; they put him in the baby bassinet and were covering him up with a blanket. Our poor, sweet kitty is such a good sport!

 

11/19: The girls got to go play at Jason's house again while I went to my therapy appt., then they got to go play at Kiki's house while I went to Bunco the next night.  They love playing with Jason and Carma and Wyatt. :)

11/22: Someone refused to nap today and now she's sleeping at dinner time! Ya like the little nest she made for herself using couch pillows and blankets? There are even some papers under her, ha ha.

 

 

Today (11/23): I played the flute today with the choir for the first time in years. I was so nervous that my fingers were shaking and my lips were literally quivering. I hope everyone just thought it was vibrato, ha ha!

So I found a set of kids' drums on KSL Classifieds and went and picked them up the other day, woohoo!  And I've gotten most of my Christmas shopping done already (online, yes!).  I also finally got the girls some snow pants from an online indoor garage sale page.  They can't wait to use them.  They are so disappointed that the only snow we've gotten was just a dusting.  They want to go to Grandma's and play in her snow. :)

Jared will be home on Tuesday, in time for Thanksgiving.  It looks like we'll be having a different Thanksgiving than we've ever done.  More on that next week...

I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Not too much to report for this past week but thought I'd go ahead and post, anyway.  We ended up babysitting the neighbor boys (the girls' friend, Jason, and his little brother) on Monday.  The girls were taking a nap when they got here and they slept longer than anticipated, especially Avery (I guess they were still catching up from the busy weekend), so they didn't get to play with Jason all that long.  He wants them to go play over there on Wed., so they'll be excited for that.

Tuesday was dance class; while they both went in, Avery was on the floor at one point, covered with her blankey, which she was supposed to leave on the side of the floor and not dance with it!  What am I gonna do with that girl?  :P

Wednesday, we all went to the dinosaur museum.  It was actually Jared's first time going there with us.  We all had fun.

Avery had all of her dinosaurs sticking up out of the sand :)

 

 

That afternoon, I went to PetSmart and came out to my car to see this (mine is on the right and was parked there first):

 

I stood there flabbergasted for a couple minutes and thought that I would have climb through the passenger side but then I saw a sweet old lady come out of the store, headed our way. I was very kind and polite and asked if that was her car as she came closer. I told her I couldn't get my door open and that it looks like she came very close to hitting me. She said the sun was in her eyes, blah blah blah (it was to our backs), but I told her not to worry about it. I was really nice and didn't want to make her feel too badly about it but I hope she's more careful from now on! You wonder about some people driving out there!!!  She was able to pull forward, instead of backing up, thank goodness! I was quite nervous as she pulled forward, though!

That night, I asked my family if they wanted sloppy joes for dinner and Makenna started rocking back and forth on the couch and said, "It's a holiday! It's a holiday!" Ha ha! That's probably because we had sloppy joes at the town Halloween party and she loved it. :D

Oh, and that day (the 5th) was the 3rd anniversary of our temple sealing! :D  Here are some photos to reminisce:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 11/6: I bought Elf on the Shelf! I am so excited!!! This is gonna be so fuuuuuun! I'm seriously so giddy with anticipation, ha ha! I've anxiously waited for the twins to be old enough to do this. Starting the day after Thanksgiving, y'all are gonna get sick of seeing pics of all the fun stuff our elf is gonna do, ha ha ha!

Friday: I went to the church that morning around 10:30 to do our R.S. craft weekend.  I was there until 3:00!  When I got home, Jared and I did some stuff around the house (even though my back was KILLING ME from sitting in hard chairs working on the crafts for 4 1/2 hours!), then I got the girls packed and ready to go with Jared.  They went up to Hoytsville and stayed at Grandma's house so Jared could help his dad get all the honey from his beehives.  They got 10 gallons!  The girls had a blast "helping" grandma in her yard and feeding cows, etc. on Sat.  And Jared took them to visit a high school buddy that evening.  Meanwhile, I went back to the church for a couple of hours to finish up my crafts that morning, then I went and bought new tennis shoes.  After watching some football by myself in peace (RARE for me, ha ha!), I went to my friends/neighbors' house to watch the LSU game.  Jared and the girls got there at halftime, with the girls smelling like cow poop, ha ha!  They were exhausted by the end of the game so Jared took them home as overtime started.  LSU ended up losing.  Waaaaaaaaaaaah!  It was a super close game the whole time. I HATE losing to Bama!  Blech!!!!


Today was just another exhausting Sunday, with choir practice this morning and a taking care of nursery kids.  The girls went right to sleep tonight--go figure, since they only had a short nap yesterday after playing all day at Grandma's, staying up 3 1/2 hours past their bedtime last night, and not getting a nap today!