Thanksgiving Weekend Fun

We are still running every which way, but having fun doing it. We were able to visit family for Thanksgiving and I really needed it. I was getting homesick for Venice and that hasn't happened since we moved to Hurricane, so it was about time. I forgot my camera once again, so no pictures only details. It was so cold the whole time we were in Glenwood and Venice. I thought I was going to freeze to death. The one morning it was -5 degrees.

While in Venice and Glenwood, I went Thanksgiving Day shopping at KMart and Black Friday shopping at Wal-Mart. I got nearly everything I went for. The only thing I didn't get was the Bourne series of movies for Branden, but they were gone within a minute of being opened. Oh well! I must say we are very blessed in our lives and I'm truly grateful for that.

Thanksgiving day was so much fun! My mom and I went shopping. After that, we cleaned up the Venice School House and made pies. We ate our feast at the school house. Following that, we had roller skating races and a mini baseball game inside. Everyone had a great time. We then headed over to Glenwood and spent the rest of the evening until 10 pm. Shanelle and I went to Wal-Mart about 10:30 pm to scope it out. All the Cowley girls and Anderson girls that were in town went out shopping. We did our normal divide and shop bit. I think everyone got pretty much what they went for. That morning after about 5 hrs of sleep we got up and went hunting Christmas trees. We found some pretty trees and I'm happy with the one we got.

November 28th, 2010 our big guy turned 7. I was struggling with that. He'd received some presents from family members over Thanksgiving that he was so excited about. At 6:30 am on the big Birthday morning, he was in our room wanting to open presents. He didn't get to open them until 9 though because we were exhausted. He was spoiled once again, as he has been most of his life. I guess that's the perks of being an only child. For Family Home Evening, we had cake and ice cream as a family. We also decorated partially for Christmas. Brax helped decorate his birthday cake.
I hope that all of you have a good time around the holidays and please remember why we're celebrating. The joy is in the giving!

So Behind

Sorry about not blogging for so long. It seems like one thing comes after another. My sister, Cara and her fiancee went through the temple on October 1st to receive their endowments. We were able to go. It was a lot of fun. It was also General Conference weekend so we stayed until Sunday. It was a lot of fun spending time with family. While there we went to a pumpkin patch. It was so much fun!

The following weekend Cara and Kincade were married in the St. George temple. Everyone stayed at my house and thanks to some wonderful friends, Cara's and our nieces hair looked great! After the wedding we had a luncheon at a local church. Everyone visited and had a good time during the meal. It was followed by the cake cutting. Needless to say, they decided not to "be nice". Cara was afraid of her car getting decorated so she left it in my garage. Shanelle knew where it was and decorated the windows with paint. They went to Florida on their honeymoon and have returned back to life, but now together. It was a beautiful ceremony. When they left to go on their honeymoon, the rest of us went out to Sand Hollow Reservoir. We played in the COLD water and three of us went out cliff jumping. It was scary, but thrilling all at the same time. Next time we're going to get life jackets to go out so everyone can go that wants to.


Following the wedding I got really sick. I was pretty much in bed for 2 weeks. I had an amazing friend pick some things up at the store for me. It was greatly appreciated. My stomach was upset and my head hurt so bad. I don't remember the last time I was that sick. I know it was all because I stressed too much and overdid it. Now, Brax is sick and has been for 4 days. I hope he gets better soon because he's so tired of just sitting in the house all day.

Other than the wedding and illness it's been just run, run, run. I helped teach a class at Pow Wow last Saturday and had a Relief Society Santa's workshop. I was gone from 7:30 am until 6 pm. I felt so bad that Brax was sick and Branden had to stay home with him. I think they had a good time though.

We had our ward Primary Program on October 24th and it went a lot better than I anticipated. My mother-in-law came down and we had a fun weekend. We went to Pirate Island with her, my brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and niece. We had a lot of fun!
During Fall Break we went out adventuring with my sister-in-law, Kelly. We went to Staheli Farm where we went through three corn mazes and enjoyed some other things they had there. We didn't have time to go to the pumpkin patch, but we did that when we went to Richfield.

Other than everything listed above, I've been trying to hit sales to buy birthday and Christmas presents. I've been working on some presents for the past week and am excited for them to be done. I hope they are soon. I've been helping in Brax's class every other Tuesday. It's been a lot of fun. He gets really excited when he sees me walk into the class. He really is a good kid.



Branden is just doing what he normally does. He loves to go to yard sales on the weekends. He is also still working with the scouts. He enjoys it most of the time. He missed the opening of the pheasant hunt this year to stay home and watch Brax since I had meetings all day. He really is a good guy!