Tuesday Thoughts

I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week. Of course we still haven't decided what we are doing. Tiffany invited us to Logan to have dinner with them but I don't know how work will be and if there will be enough drivers. We are on call and sometimes R is called in latter in the day so I'm sure sure if we should be in Logan. I plan on buying everything to make dinner anyway because I love the Thanksgiving feast and even if we go to Logan I would be it the following day on Sunday or something.

My sister Kris called yesterday to say they were heading to Salt Lake to talk to a lawyer about a car accident she was in a while back. The person at fault's insurance company is screwing her around so they are taking it to the next level to at least get the money the have had to pay out of pocket for insurance and stuff. We meet her and Shaun for a late lunch/early dinner at Ruby River Steakhouse. It was nice to visit with them, I haven't seen them for some time. Of course my kids were not the perfectly mannered children especially since Shaun was teasing them and they were tyring to tickle and kick him.

I had a parent teacher conference with S's teacher. Teacher had good things to say about S; that she is a good worker and doens't talk as much as I was afraid she did and also that S is very social. S is a young kindergartener and her teacher said there a alot of young summer birhtdays in her class this year. She said S is doing good for her age. We made a goal to work harder on her weekly sounds. I have a parent teacher conference with Z's teacher this afternoon.

My sister Katie is heading the Emery County this weekend for a visit so Friday after school the kids and I will head down also. Tiffany will come down early Saturday morning. My kids are excited to see their cousin Mariah and all the other cousins. Since Mariah lives in Colorado we just don't see them as often. Katie has started selling tupperware so Kris and Denise are both having tupperware parties while Katie is visiting.

I have seen some Christmas trees up in peoples windows already. I am tempted to put mine up just to get it out of the way. I started thinking that I don't know how I'm going to be able to keep my tree up with A. She is Miss Tornado and is into everything. I just don't know how she will leave the tree alone. I'm tempted to get a small tree and put it on top of a table so she can't reach it. R probalby thinks it will be fine, but she will play with everything and pull it off.

Weekly Menu

Weekly Menu

Monday:
Dinner at Ruby River Steak House

Tuesday:
Chicken Rollups
Fresh Canberry Salad
Green Beans

Wednesday:
Chicken Alfredo
Salad
Garlic Bread

Thursday:
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Canned Peaches
Carrots and Randy

Friday:
Emery County

Saturday:
Emery County

Sunday:
Emery County

Happy Veteran's Day

Fresh Cranberry Salad

Fresh Cranberry Salad

2 packages fresh cranberries

12 oz. each - chopped about the size of rice

4 cups sugar

4 cups grapes, halved

1 cup chopped pecans

2 cups whipped cream (no sugar added)

Mix the chopped cranberries with the sugar and put in a colander. Seep all night. Throw away the liquid sugar stuff. Make sure the berries drain rather than set in the liquid. Add grapes and nuts. Whip cream and fold into fruit and nuts.

Sunday Blessings

Z had his sleepover Friday night and they had a good time. The boys stayed up way to late so of course I had a sleepy Z yesterday. I should have planned a fun family Saturday because all Z's friend's were busy so he had a boring birthday day and spent part of it being mad at me because his friends couldn't play. When R came home from work last night he took Z and S to see the Bee Movie and I stayed home with A and folded laundry and working on my Young Women lesson.

My lesson went okay today although we got done a little early. I'm sure the girls are happy to have extra time to hang out between classes.

My visiting teachers were just here and we talked about Elder Ering talk on keeping a journal. I am not so good at this but my visting teachers gave me hope. I really have great visiting teachers and I love to visit with them.

I am on the activity committe in our ward and we have a meeting in an hour for our ward Christmas Breakfast at the beginning of December. I don't want to be in charge of decorations so I'm hoping to either do advertising or the food. R is still at work so I have to drag with kids with me which I'm sure will make the meeting super fun for all involved. Maybe we'll sit in the nursery so the kids can play.

I picked up our disk of family pictures from Tammy yesterday. They turned out so cute and she made us two family Christmas cards to choose from and a baptism invitation for Z. I need to sit down and order the prints I want and start working on our family Christmas letter.

Happy 8th Birthday Z!!

Finally Friday

Who knew these little guys could stay up so late??? The boys from he slumber party are still going strong and I'm pooping out. I told them in a half hour they at least need to watch a movie and be quiet downstairs so I can go to sleep, I've had a long day. Overall the party has been fun for Z and his friends. We had pizza and a Dairy Queen ice cream cake and they opened gifts. Z loved his new Nintendo DS and I gave him a game he has been wanting. I lead him to believe he was getting a new suit for his birthday and he was not excited about it at all.

I can't believe Z will be eight tomorrow. It seems like time goes so fast and the next minute it seems to crawl along. Z will be bapized December 1st and he is so excited. I'm pretty sure he doesn't totally understand the whole baptism thing but I didn't either. He has a small testimony and as he grows so will his testimony.

S was quite the nurturer tonight taking care of the boys and making sure they had what they needed. She so cute about it and it was so hard for her to finally go to bed a few minutes ago. S thinks she should be able to sleep with the boys and do whatever they do.

I'm going to try to get them to bed so I can sleep.