November 2019

Novermber started out on a sad note when we discovered our Beta fish, Diamond died.  I had noticed the last couple weeks that he wasn't as active and didn't eat as much so I kind of knew it was coming.  The girls had their friend Finley over for the first time and went to show her their fish and she said 'I don't think he's alive'  oops.  I told them to go outside for a bit but pretty soon they came back and I couldn't keep it from them, Diamond was gone.  The kids were devastated.  I knew they were going to be sad when she died but seriously I've never seen more tears over a fish.  They did love him a lot, and talked and fed him every day.  We said our good-byes and then made some fish out of felt which made them a lot happier to have something to remember him by. It was fun remembering how Diamond magically came into our lives on the girl's birthday the year before.  They were also happy they still had Gilbert to play with.


Jaron played Jr Jazz basketball and it was the cutest team all made up with boys from our neighborhood.  He had some much fun playing and practicing with them.


Shane and the girls got to go on a Father/Daughter Date night put on by the Primary Activity days.  And since I'm the primary president, I got to go and help as well.  It was a cowboy themed night.  They ate dinner and then rotated around to play different games.


Thanksgiving fell kind of late this year so we decided to decorate our Christmas tree the weekend before Thanksgiving which I usually do not do.  The kids were excited and definitely got us in the Christmas spirit.  They even let Gilbert join in on the festivities.


The 2nd graders learned all about the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and then put on a Balloon parade.  These 2nd grade teachers helped their class make them all.  I was impressed at how different and creative they all were.  Siena's was a butterfly and Aria's was a unicorn.


We spent Thanksgiving at my parents house like we usually do and had a good day.  Before we went over there we took the kids to see the new Frozen 2 movie that had just come out.  We got a snow storm that morning so the kids were excited to see Frozen 2 on a Frozen morning at Thanksgiving Point on Thanksgiving Day!


We got a pretty good snow storm towards the end of the month so the kids of course wanted to go sledding. It was a fun first time sledding for the season.