If this doesn't get you in the holiday spirit, I don't know what will!

Rhiannon and Wade practicing their Carol of the Bells duet--lovely!

My Snowmen craft that I made at our ward's Super Saturday--I love how they turned out, and, yes, I did make those hats! :)

On Veteran's Day, Rhiannon and I drove friends down to the Los Angeles Temple day.  It was a quick, busy, fun, exhausting day, and I'm glad we went and came back safely.  I love this picture of Rhiannon with her friend JenAi and our sweet friend and new ward member Sister Vignault.

This picture above is worth a thousand words.  Shortly after Grandma Sue got to Texas to spend time with my mom and dad, she had to be admitted to the hospital and then spend a week in an acute rehab facility.  This picture was taken during a FaceTime chat after Grandma had gotten out of that facility and was back with my parents.  So happy that she's feeling better!

On Friday Wade's school had their monthly Super Star assembly but went ALL OUT for Veteran's Day.  This was just one of the neat things they did during that assembly.  I was so glad I was there!

My chocolate order came in! :)

Caught the kids one night as they were quizzing each other.  They'd ring a bell every time they asked a question--too cute!

Learning something new

It took us a few days to recuperate from our wonderfully long weekend last week, and, now that we're recovered, another weekend is upon us!  Woo-hoo!  This weekend will be loaded with baseball, ensemble piano recitals for the kids, a Ragnar meeting for Dad (gearing up for SoCal in April), and a busy day at church on Sunday.  Somehow we'll find a way to carve in some down-time, too.  That's how we roll--downtime helps us stay sane!

 

On Monday night Howard and Sandi treated us to a great dinner at China Express; I'm STILL working on my orange chicken leftovers and loving every bite of it--thanks, guys!

 

Yesterday there was some "excitement" on base.  The kids both got to do live lockdowns at their schools because some idiot sped on through one of the base entrances without stopping and getting ID checked.  I felt really bad for Wade's school--apparently they were last to get the message that everything was clear and ended up being stuck in their classrooms, under their desks most of the time, for close to two hours.  Rhiannon said they were released much sooner than that at the middle school.  I guess you could look at this two ways.  One, I'm grateful for the precautions that were taken and the schools got some good practice.  Two, having schools on base can be/is annoying!

 

Last night we were all over the place for baseball practice and Mutual/Scouts activities.  Wade was at baseball, Jason was doing Scouts, and Rhiannon was making cookies with the Beehives (for me and the other YW leaders--so sweet!)  I had a TOTAL blast and learned something new at our activity--we met at our MiaMaid advisor's home, Sister Rivera, and she had gone to a great deal of trouble to set up this fun craft for the girls.  They printed inspirational signs on BURLAP with her home computer, then glued them to wooden boards that she'd painted ahead of time and made fabric flowers to glue to the boards, too.  I was super impressed--watch out, extended family, you might get some burlap awesomeness for Christmas this year to go along with your photo coasters, ha-ha! :)  Click on the picture for a pretty good tutorial on how to print on the burlap.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Thursday!