November Happenings

November started out with  me getting my tonsils out, yuck!  It turned into a more than two week ordeal that was NO FUN. I knew from what the doctor had said that it would take at least two weeks to heal, he wanted be prepared to have help for two weeks because I wasn't supposed to lift anything, including kids.  Of course because of my high pain tolerance I thought for sure I would be back to good in no time --boy was I wrong, it was literally one of the worst things I've experienced.  For a whole week I could eat hardly anything but some cream soup, yogurt & pudding but mostly just popcicles because that's all that sounded good.  I had to be on my medicine to even be able to swallow but the medicine made me really drowsy and kinda out of it.  I spent about 10 days mostly just sitting in the recliner. Thank heavens LeGrand was off work for 10 days.  I didn't even feel a slight improvement in pain until after a week, it was really miserable.

When LeGrand went back to work my parents decided to come up for the weekend and help out - it was nice to give them a reason to come visit since its been almost a whole year since they've been up. While they were here they helped me get my Christmas decorations up - I don't usually like them up until after Thanksgiving but since they were here to help it was nice to get it done. Papa even took the kids on a walk to pick out their own trees so we got to have two mini live trees for them to decorate, they loved it!

We also went to dinner and I had my first real meal, it was rough to get it down but nice to eat some meat :)  of course the kids love to play on the video games.

And Laex had a couple of basketball games we watched

The same weekend my parents (Nov 18th & 19th) were here, LeGrands parents moved to town.  We're not really sure why they chose to move here except they've always lived by one of their other kids and I think his mom feels like she 'owes' it to us to live by us.  It will be different having them here, we aren't used to family so close but I'm sure the kids will love it.

For Thanksgiving LeGrand had to work, he was able to get off early and we went to Shylo's house in Ogden, we had a yummy meal then we stayed the night in a motel in Layton. On Friday the 25th we did a little shopping, met up with Kenz and Jed for lunch where we got to meet baby Dellah, we also shopped at city creek & checked out the candy windows downtown, they were fun.

On Saturday the 26th we got the Christmas lights put up on our house, yay!  It's a bit nerve wracking with a metal roof and LeGrand clowing around up there telling me how slick it is BUT we finished without incident and I'm making a new plan for next year :)

During November we had unusually warm weather and got lots of rain - we caught this awesome rainbow one day.

Halloweeeeeeen!

We love all of the fun events around Halloween in our little town!
On the 27th the Grace Elementary had their annual Halloween Carnival and Baked potato dinner - the kids love getting dressed up to go to the carnival. -Laexin hit the Jackpot at the Soda ring toss and won 28 cans of soda...It was a fun night!

They even had a LIVE fishing pond...which means we came home with 2 trout :/

Then on Sunday the 30th we had our Halloween dinner since I knew Halloween night would be busy - we had Meatball mummies, Spiderweb dip with chips, Candy corn fruit cups and Swamp juice.  The kids loved it!

Halloween landed on a Monday --I'm Laexins room mom so I helped with the school party

 Halloween night we went to our favorite Halloween party house and had chili and got lots of treats then did a little trick-or-treating around town.

***I can hardly believe it, but this Halloween weekend marks 1 year since we've been back in Grace - on one hand we still really yearn for Washington and on the other hand we are so content and happy to be here in Grace!

Fish Farm

 There's a fish farm here in Grace and LeGrand home teaches the people who run it.  We were delivering treats one Sunday and they asked us if we wanted to go check out the fish - of course the kids were so excited.  The farm is situated in the black canyon and it is beautiful!

The kids loved feeding the fish!

 Laexin thought it was awesome to get to catch one of the bigger fish!

Abby's Baptism and a Youth Temple Trip

We were so lucky to be a part of the baptism of our sweet friend Abby!  This girl is so Amazing - I've loved watching her get so excited about the gospel.  She loves YW's and we love having her - she was so ready to be baptized and was so excited about her first trip to the temple.

 A week after her baptism Abby joined us on our Youth temple trip to the Oquirrh mountain temple.  It was a beautiful day and awesome experience.  I love working with the youth in our ward - I feel like it's the best job in the church.  We have such amazing, strong, faithful youth and had an awesome time on our trip!