Before Thanksgiving Courtney's 3rd grade class combined with a Kindergarten class to perform the "Turkey Trot" for their families. Courtney drove Ethan NUTS talking about this all the time. We were pretty excited when the day finally arrived.
It was during the day so I was the only one able to go. Each student had a part of a story to tell and Courtney had her line memorized and did a great job.
Then the students all did the Turkey Trot for us. Courtney started out in the front but was slowly pushed backward until she ended up behind some other kids. It was okay because she was still having fun!
When they all finished, they invited the audience onto the stage to do the Turkey Trot with them. It was pretty fun.
Last year when they did this activity they didn't have any kind of refreshments afterward. But Courtney's teacher decided they needed to have something fun for the kids to celebrate the season. So I helped cut pumpkin pie and serve hot wassail and apple cider. The kids had a great time and it was a fun start to the holiday season.
Bryan had a pretty laid back birthday. It was on a Sunday so we didn't go out or anything but he got some good food.
We made him crepes for breakfast with peach and strawberry filling.
After Church, I made him a peach pie instead of a cake and we made his favorite birthday dinner. We had grilled marinated chicken thigh, wild rice, salad and peach pie for dessert.
The kids are a bit weird when Bryan blows out his candle. haha
Ethan has been working on tying his own tie for Church. He makes a go of it and then Bryan fixes it. On this particular Sunday Ethan tried and the knot is perfect. Too bad he didn't get the length right. We had a good laugh and he gave me permission to post this photo.
Courtney had her last soccer game of the season in November. It was a strange season because we had about 3 weeks in the middle where we didn't play. The girls were having a hard time focusing at practices so Bryan quit doing them about halfway through the season. But they had a good team and had fun. They would have done better had they been able to focus but he wanted them to have fun....which they did.
Courtney was invited to McKaye Haws' birthday party at a salon in St. George. We got her there a little bit late, because she had something prior to the party, but she was in time to have her hair done in a beautiful updo and have her nails painted. They had a great time and she was so happy to be primped for the day!
On November 7th, we celebrated our 15th year anniversary. Bryan bought me a beautiful bouquet of roses! I have a photo somewhere of all of them, but here is one of them! It was great!
He also made me dinner and we had a great evening.
Courtney participated in the storytelling competition at the elementary school. She did a story she already knew really well so it was fun for her to put actions and change her voice to make it more fun.
