November Miscellaneous

Nov 2:  Drew seems to plow through his Halloween candy the quickest.  Actually, Jason and Katie are likely just as fast, but they can’t eat a lot of the candy they get because of their peanut allergy.  Halloween is a great holiday for this Mama.

Nov 5:  Our first middle school choir concert featuring our oldest son, Jason.  Justin attended and took this short video clip of one of their songs.  Jason is back row next to a bouncy sixth grade girl.

Nov 8:  Drew making use of his fun shark “Blankie Tail”

Nov 14:  As president of the laurel class at church (the 16-18 year old girls) Abigail was in charge of planning their annual Young Women in Excellence program.  She put a lot of time and thought into making it a special evening.  It was based on the movie Coco and the theme of “Remember Me”.  Instead of displaying things the young women had been working on this year they put together a movie of video clips of each of the girls.  It was so well done and a much better way to highlight each of the young women.  The whole evening was impressive and well done.  Abigail even made Coco themed cookies for refreshments.

Nov 16:  We celebrated Grandma Fletcher’s birthday tonight by going out to dinner at Outback.  Yum!

Nov 21:  There were several weeks in October/November that the van wouldn’t start.  There were some weeks that Abigail could pretty much count on having to jump the battery when her and her friends were done at the college and ready to head home.  They got so good at it that they would start timing how quickly they could get it back up and running.  Thankfully, we have a small battery pack in the van with jumper cables so they were able to do it on their own.  We had the battery tested by two different people/companies and each time they said it was fine.  It was such a mystery.  Finally we figured out that if we took the lights off of auto the battery wouldn’t drain. 

I got this next picture from one of the seminary teachers in December with the following text:  “Kalli and Abigail popped my hood and had’er humming in under two minutes.  It was pretty funny to watch.  Some of the boys were like, “What?!  They can do that?!”

Nov 22:  Thanksgiving.  I didn’t have a single picture from Thanksgiving.  Thankfully, we had the Squires over and she took the picture below that she was able to send me now three months later.  Our Thanksgiving was just going to consist of having Justin’s parents over; however, the Squires were looking for a place to hang and we were happy to add a few more bodies so it would feel a little more special.  Dinner was great.  The Squires ended up staying until later that evening playing games and letting the kids play.

And our annual Thankful poster…

Nov 26:  I must have been making dinner for another family because I’d never make this many rolls for just us.  Such a beautiful sight!  Love me some carbs!

Nov 28:  Drew had some fun Thanksgiving activities at school this month.  Here’s his turkey hat and a cute Thankful Thursday paper in which he wrote “I am thankful for my Trke (turkey)”

It seems we’ve had this same homework assignment multiple times.  Each time I’ve avoided getting involved in the craft project and had someone else help my kiddo.  I think my Mom even helped once or twice.  This year it was Carly who helped Drew decorate his turkey.

Nov 28:  Jason had a few friends over today and impressed them with his hiding spot in hide-n-seek.