November 2018

November was filled with...

the start of Green Canyon Basketball games.

Jadyn's art exhibit night @ Spring Creek Middle School.

I had a "car-nic" with Lydia one day at school.

That's what she called it because we had our picnic in the car. haha

I made up a schedule years ago that includes a special one-on-one date with one of the girls, so two a month.  One with Shane, and one with me.

November was Lydia's month with me and she chose Fredricos for lunch.

Lydia lost another tooth. haha

These two continued being awesome doing Baptisms.

Busy days of dance for Lydia and Jadyn.

And Kenna went on her first date... sort of.

The cheerleaders are in charge of "Sadies" (the girls-choice dance).

Kenna and her friend Irelynd were the only girls in the group who were not taking dates (since they're still 15).

But they were planning on going stag anyway because they had to help with setup/cleanup.

Then one of the girls... Taya... got sick.

No one knew at the time HOW sick she was, it's super serious and scary.

She's STILL down at Primary Childrens with a severe brain infection 6 weeks later.

Heartbreaking.

She had a date with Case... and the coach asked Kenna and Irelynd if they could go together with him so he wouldn't have to miss the dance.

That was fine by us.

They had a fun time together, especially because their group was huge!

What a lucky boy haha

There was Thanksgiving.

Obviously sweet Sadie had very little downtime with our big family.

And Sydney is a crackup.

These guys are pretty great.

I'm definitely wishing that I had taken more pictures though.

Our tree adventures were without any incident at all.

No one cried.

No one complained.

No one froze.

We just found our trees and cut them.

We were super happy to have Tayler and Jaden with us this year.

Jaden thinks they should get a fake tree, but I'm guessing Tayler will NEVER let that happen!

Then spent the rest of the day decorating.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!

I took these four girls to the Nutcracker.

(Jaden and Shane were just fine that they weren't invited.)

It's been YEARS since we have gone.

Jadyn BARELY remembers even going.

We haven't gone since the year Saige announced that she, "actually HATES the nutcracker."

In her defense, she is VERY offended we keep bringing that up... because she doesn't HATE it, it just isn't her favorite tradition.

Honestly Saige I'm glad we stopped that tradition too... because it's not ACTUALLY my favorite either.  It's all very pretty and Christmasy... but I totally know what's coming up next! haha

So... that good long break that we took, helped us to enjoy it more.

And then we ALL agreed that we don't need to go EVERY year. hahaha

So we have to stop blaming it on Saige I guess!

Shane spent the last week of November in Nauvoo.

Thanks November.