Portland Thanksgiving

Updates on Clifton -
The computer gave in this week and Clifton was lost with what to do with his screen time and not having a computer to play Prodigy on.

Updates on McKay -
We have agreed on a little attitude chart with McKays teacher to evaluate her days.  If she completes this week with no sad faces she will get to go to lunch with her teacher from last year,  Mr. Sulivan.  Mr. Sullivan graciously offered to be motivation and it sure helped.  She had a great week!

Updates on Stanley -
Can zip up his jacket all by himself!

Updates on Hazen -
3 months old!!!!

And too cute for words.  I wouldn't mind if time would just freeze now.

Hazen got a cold this week so we spent most of the time keeping him comfortable.

Tis' the season sadly.

We got out at times he was feeling better.  We have found a new favorite activity to do together.  It has been hard for me to find something that all the kids enjoy doing these days, but Pokemon has been their common ground.

Playing Pokemon Go and getting outside and moving.

Dinner for Dad at school!

A cute event.

Thursday was the final game of the semi finals.

We were all ready for the game and boy was it a game, but sadly we lost and are out of the finals.  And add salt to the wound we lost to Portland and we are going down Saturday.

Friday was the schools Veteran's assembly.  I am not going to lie Sunnyslopes made me cry every year so this didn't quite match up but it was still nice.

Then we came home after school and made Turkey cookies.

 Alex's creation.

 Mine.

They turned out pretty cute and we had lots of fun decorating.  We took them to our friends house to have dinner with them.  A good night.

Saturday we head down to Portland.

This picture doesn't do justice but it was a beautiful fall drive.
We dropped the kids off with my mom and snuck away to the temple.  It has been a while.  And we got to meet up with friends who were going that day too.

Then we had Portland Thanksgiving and celebrated November birthdays.

Hazen was acting really lethargic and not over his cold so we decided to head home instead of stay the night.

On our way out we took all the leftovers to hand out.  I was so happy Alex suggested we do that.

A good example to our kiddos.

Sunday was Veteran's day so I busted out all my Grandpa Hazen's memorabilia to look over and read his story.

 I feel so blessed that he trusted me with all his stuff and shared his story with me so we could write it down and have it.

The kids enjoyed looking at pictures and hearing his story but they loved looking though coins he had collected from all over.

Other update from the week...

I cut even more time off my 3 miles.  Getting closer!  One more week till my Turkey Trot.