Weekend Update

We had a great Thanksgiving...except we are still eating the turkey. We were up late both Friday and Saturday night so the kids were asleep last night at 6:30 and Phil and I lasted until 9:00 and then gave up and went to bed.

Friday the kids made gingerbread houses over at Nana's...Cannon's survived the trip home and Miya's did not.

The kids didn't mind so much that one got destroyed because it meant they could eat all the candy off the house before it got old and nasty.We got to spend some two-on-one time with Lyla and she loved laying by Phil with her blanket and fingers watching football.

We did a ton of yard clean-up on Saturday and the weather was so nice and warm for us. I was just in a t-shirt and worked up a sweat raking leaves and loading the truck with all the pruning branches and bushes.

Sunday morning we managed to find all the Christmas tree decorations and get it up before we went to church.

Thanksgiving

Well I figured I shouldn't let this day go without posting the things I am most thankful for: (in no particular order)
1. My Family
2. Gospel
3. Good Friends
4. Warm and Safe Home
5. Food to eat
6. Free Country
7. Outdoors
8. Health

Bowling Birthday Party

We headed up to Seattle for a little girlfriends birthday party on Saturday and the kids had so much fun. I am not sure why I have never taken the kids bowling, but they loved it. Miya liked it so much she kept sneaking down and bowling for other people while everyone else was eating cake.
In our Ward up in Seattle we had only a handful of kids in all of Primary so they became more like family than friends and Cannon and William had such a great time seeing each other again. There was some fake karate that turned into really karate rather quickly and once we got that stopped they just started hugging each other...that almost turned into wrestling, but we threw in a distraction of flexing muscle photos.Lyla liked the bowling until the cake came out and then she happily sat down and ate a large piece of cake all by herself. She would not get down from her set until she had licked off the last crumb from her plate.


Miya is now making big plans for her birthday party coming up next month.

Kindergarten Field Trip

I got to go with Miya's class to the Children's Hands On Museum in Olympia on Friday. It was crazy with all the kids, but they were all so cute and excited. When they first got into the building they were running around crazy because there was too much to see and do. There was some serious channeling of energy and division of kids so they could see and do everything in there. It was a great place and Miya LOVED it. I had Miya and two of her other girl friends in my group.

I have a hard time not discussing everything we are doing and asking lots of questions when I take my own kids places. I think the other two girls we wondering why they got stuck with the mom that couldn't just let them play. When we were at the art table and working with the sculpting clay I had them look in the mirror and we talked about symmetry.

When we were playing in the construction site we had to sort the rocks by size and discuss what we would build with these rocks.

At the water table I had to stop them from building the dam and talked about current and get them to make a channel.

In the ambulance and the hospital site we looked at x-rays and discussed names of bones. When we got back together as a class to go to the lesson on wind some of the little boys were so sweaty from running around crazy and I had to laugh at how this same field trip will be so different next year when I am running around with Cannon and two of his buddies.

Concert

For my birthday in September Phil bought me tickets to go see Jason Mraz at the Paramount in Seattle. This was all before we knew he would be having surgery on his knee at the end of October. We still went out and hit the concert. When we got to the concert two guys at the end of the row offered to let us have their seats so Phil could put his leg straight, but he refused. They were really tall guys and he felt bad having them sit in our seats. So Phil squeezed in and sat sweating due to the pain for the first band. Needless to say we didn't enjoy that very much.

I thought I rotated the picture before I posted it, but I guess I didn't. This really isn't a position you want your knee to be stuck in for 45 minutes if you just had surgery a few weeks ago. The two guys left to move up with some friends for the rest of the concert once Jason came on stage so we took their seats. The rest of the concert was great. We forgot our camera so we captured everything with the wonderful phone camera, but you can tell we had a wonderful time.

Jason Mraz has such a great voice and sounded just as good in concert, if not better, than on the radio. He plays the fiddle too and did a few folk songs that he learned as a kid growing up in Virginia. I love the new tradition of giving gifts that keep on giving. It is always fun to get to go out on my birthday and then have something fun to look forward to in a few months.