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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Today we had a wonderful day, having Thanksgiving dinner with our good friends, the Thompson’s.  The food was outstanding, and the company was wonderful!  Brittany loved the food!  She prided herself on eating an entire turkey leg!  Everyone thought she was funny!

The girls took a bunch of pictures, and after dinner, we had relaxed, had fun, and chatted.  It’s great to have awesome friends to spend special occasions with, especially when family is so far away!

Today Kirstyn and Zach had their first basketball games of the early winter season.  Kirstyn plays Wheatland ball and her games are at Still Middle School, so that is really nice!  She played hard and did pretty well.  She has a really good team and they play well together.  She’s a little out of practice, but everything will come back soon, just like riding a bike!

Zach’s team played great too!  When playing on his level with the Park District, they are MUCH more lenient than they were playing Wheatland.  It’s all about the fun and getting used to basketball.  They don’t call double-dribble or travel much at all, and the kids have a lot more “fun” I think.  They don’t learn as fast, but they do have fun.  Zach has been blessed with great coaches.  Looks like they’ll have a good team too!

Great job in your games kids!  Keep up the hard work and you’ll learn a ton!  🙂

Today Zach and Kirstyn played great in their games.  Zach is quite the little defender!  He has some work to do on offense, but he really sticks to who he is guarding like glue.  🙂  His team won and it looks as if their team is going to have a great (possibly undefeated?) season!

Kirstyn played great in her game as well!  She scored the first points of the game!  🙂  We were really cheering loud for her!

Unfortunately, her team lost, but she is loving playing basketball again, and this will really help keep her practiced up for the spring and basketball for Still Middle School!

Great job today kids!

Happy Halloween everyone!  The kids had a great time going out trick-or-treating and after 2 1/2 hours, they were exhausted but had a TON of candy!

Kirstyn went out a little later as well and had fun too!  We now have a whole bunch of candy (and a whole bunch of freezer bags of chocolate) that we can snack on for some time to come… that is as long as we can keep it rationed to the kids.  Otherwise, it will be gone in a week.  🙂

Today Kirstyn started basketball on a Wheatland team with her good friend Ashley.  She is the only one on the team that is not from the school Ashley goes to, so she doesn’t know anyone, but that will soon change.  They look really good and should have a GREAT season!

Tonight we had Standards Night at the church.  Hopefully the kids enjoyed it.  It never ceases to amaze me the difference in the written questions or responses we get from the kids prior to the event.  This year, we asked all the kids to make a list of the top 10 things they are looking for in a spouse.  As usual (with the exception of the 2 or 3 more mature young men), most of the answers were totally surface things like hot, rich, and they even went to great lengths to write down things like “wont’ touch my stuff” and “imported from Russia.”  😐  The YW on the other hand (as usual) took it more seriously and gave some great things.  When we discussed this together, I think it made the Young Men a little uncomfortable (no names were mentioned) when we read what they had written vs. what the young women had written.  🙂

Today was flu shot day!  🙁  We all piled into the van like a herd of buffalo and drove over to the doctor’s office. I’m sure they thought it was humorous when we all came walking in and Ben had that scared to death look on his face.  Both he and Zach didn’t want to have anything to do with it (especially Zach).  Zach kept putting it off and so Ben went before him. He saw that it didn’t hurt too bad and Ben told him it was fine so he went and was relieved at how easy it was.  🙂

Again!!!  We have another crack in our foundation that is leaking and got the carpet all wet in a different place.  So, we had to pull off the wallboard and get things cleaned up.  🙁  I then went outside and started digging a hole so it could be patched from the outside.  🙁  The funny part is that Ben wanted to help me so he got a little plastic shovel, climbed down into the hole and started throwing out clods of dirt.

Turns out I dug the hole in the wrong place (by another crack) and had to dig a second one on the other side of the air conditioner.  🙁  This really stinks!  We are going to have the guys who did our other crack come and fix it.  They guarantee it for life so we should be good to go soon. to put up new wallboard and replace some of the carpet and baseboards.  Yuck!