Happy 47th birthday to Bob!!! He got a super awesome Wookie Robe for our upcoming Star Wars marathon (thanks to the Riberas!)
I made him his favorite ice cream sandwich cake/pie thingy
We had a very relaxing Thanksgiving with just the 4 of us. I made all the goodies but forgot to take a pic. We went to see Scorch Trials which was utterly terrifying…
Marisa went down to St. George for Thanksgiving.
Kayla went with Brandon to Shelley, Idaho.
Finished off all the apples
I made the GWAEA paper this week in my Star Wars shirt
Ponderizing this week:
This week felt really long, by all of us apparently…
Went to ropes course, friends football game, and climbed R mountain! (From Kayla)
This week Alayna had her Young Women in Excellence. She did a beautiful job sharing how much she loves her patriarchal blessing and her experience getting one. She also wrote out her testimony. She has grown up so much!
This week we had our annual Anamosa Veterans Day celebration. It’s a huge deal for the whole city. All the veterans come for the assembly and then are honored in a special luncheon. It was a great program with an Anamosa veteran’s family being presented with the medals he earned and never received. I always cry when the flag is brought in by veterans and then the veterans each salute it as it goes by. I’m grateful for parents who taught me what freedom really is, who has sacrificed for that freedom, and a deep respect for all military personnel.
It was also SO cool to get to see the Chinook land at our middle school and see it up close. Reminded me so much of my dad!
Our high school students made a video about not texting while driving for a contest and we made the finals. All week we were voting and getting everyone in the city to vote. We find out after Thanksgiving if we won the $100,000! (We dressed up as Jake from State Farm (the sponsors of the contest) one day for the press and yes I am in the pictures!
Our Ponderizing…please keep us in your prayers. 2 great possible job opportunities for me next year will be posting soon and I will need divine help to get them if its right for me.
(Clearly someone got hungry while waiting for him to wake up so we could sing Happy Birthday…)
Both Alayna and Tyler were home sick this week. Alayna has been watching Cupcake Wars and has been feeling inspired. Which is awesome, because we totally benefit!
I got both book fairs set up, including doing one dressed up as super woman!
More amazing pumpkins came in (check facebook), but I had to share these:
(every jewel was put on by hand!)
Took bosses kid trick or treating..
