November seems to be quite a busy month for us...
Catching up on my week.. Well we had Steve's birthday on friday. I cooked a nice steak dinner and made him a banana cream pie. It turned out so yummy!! Me the kids and my mom all went in and got him a really nice leather book set of the History of the Church. 8 books total. He has been wanting them for a while but figured they were to expensive to get so it was a nice surprise for him.
Then on Saturday we had Austins birthday party for his friends. I was really panicking when we woke up and it was still raining. I had no idea what I was going to do with so many boys running through my house... We had a pinata so we started cleaning out the garage so we could hang it up in there for the boys. But no kidding like an hour before the party it stopped raining and about 15 mins before the sun came out. Plus it was 71 degrees out side so it was really nice... It was still a bit windy and it was still pretty wet but the boys dont care about that so they spent the majority of the time out side playing various football games. My husband played the whole time with them.. And I cant believe I didnt get any pictures of this or the pinata breaking. Steve later said he knew he was getting way to old because he was having a hard time keeping up with the boys.. I think he's a little depressed because he keeps saying he is now closer to 40 then 30.. Gosh I remember when my parents were this age and I thought they were so old and now here we are....
I was quite surprised when his guests started showing up and 1 ended up being a girl.. I didnt know he had invited a girl.. She was really cute. She is from his karate class and I said she was brave for coming and putting up with all these boys and she said she is used to it and that she usually plays with the boys at school. She could probably kick any one of these boys butts. She is a tough little girl at karate.. Really good!!
As soon as the party was over within 15 mins it started clouding up and really blowing and started to rain again so we were so lucky to have had the nice weather just at the right time for the party. All in all I think it went really well.
Sunday steve flew out again for the week so it has been a crazy week here for us. I was bombarded with appnt for all the kids on tuesday that me and logan were literally gone from 10:00 in the morning and didnt get home until 6:00 in the evening. It was a very long stressful day and logan did so well bless her heart. We have been doing more testing with Jessie and her learning disabilitys. Yesterday she had some vision evaluations done.. I dont get to speak to the dr. until next tuesday but I already know the results will not be good. I got to sit in with her during the tests and I got to see a whole diffrent side to her brain and her thinking and what she really sees that I have never seen before.. Things that I just assumed she knew or saw that she really didnt. In a way it was kinda heart breaking to see her struggle and not know the right awnsers. Or see things the way a person without the disabilitys would see them. Man it is hard. You never want to see your kids struggle or have problems and know it will be something we will struggel with all her life, but I guess it is good we are catching things early so we can do something about it. And things could always be alot worse.. So I consider us a very blessed family.
Today me and Logan got to go help out with a project they were doing in Austin's class for history on the 13 colonies
Thanksgiving will be hard this year not being around family. As of right now we dont have anyone coming for dinner nor have we any plans to go anywhere.. I was hoping to cook a big dinner and have at least someone over but everyone seems to have plans already.. This sucks!!
Owell I am gratefull we have each other and we are here as a family. I will have to come up with some fun things to do...My birthday also happens to fall on thanksgiving this year... I was actually born on thanksgiving day. My mom always said I was the turkey of the family for not letting her get to eat her turkey dinner.. So yeah I get to pig out for my birthday. Plus I am getting a bosch mixer for my birthday... I am so excited I cant wait to use it.. Well it isnt really coming until the end of december so its kinda a birthday/christmas gift. But I cant wait to make some bread with it.
So Its been crazy birthday month at our house.. We woke up yesterday and saw these guys out in our back yard. It was fun to watch them. They seem to come out alot more during this time of year..
And last but not least just a picture of my cutie patootie before school today.
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