Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! It all began on Thanksgiving day with fabulous food and great company! (The company being just our family!) Our turkey was SUPER and all the sides tasted delicious! Friday we just hung out together, went to the gym together, watched movies, made homemade doughnuts (glazed bars and twists, chocolate bars and maple bars) for the first time, and enjoyed our time together. Saturday we went to the Heard Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary and hiked around for an hour or so. It was really chilly, cause the wind was blowing and it was a little overcast and the air was wet. (As you can see, the girls each had a sweatshirt... and I didn't.) We had a wonderful time being together the whole weekend. It was really hard to get back to our normal routine on Monday! I am SO thankful for my family!!

We are THANKFUL

Happy Thanksgiving! We have been trying to focus on the things we are thankful for every day this month. It has been nice to really think about how blessed we truly are. Sometimes, our situations make us feel a little down-in-the-dumps, but remembering the wonderful things that we have been given helps put things in perspective. I am so grateful for my family, for my Savior, and for the beauties all around me. I hope we can think about these things throughout the year, and remember how much we are loved and blessed by the Lord!

Fall Photo Shoot

I took some pictures of the girls on Saturday. We got a lot of cute ones! Here are some of my favorites:

A month of gratitude

For Family Home Evening this week, we talked about gratitude. I decided, to focus our girls (and ourselves) on what we are grateful for, we would make a banner. I wrote "We are Thankful for..." on it, and each day all of us are going to write things we are thankful for. At the end of the month, we will have a wall of gratitude! (I will do a post about some of the things we write at the end of the month!) I am grateful for my sweet family, and look forward to this special time of year with them!

Dinomotion

The Dodd Elementary Dinos 4th graders put on their annual musical last week. It was called "Dinomotion" and was a play that taught about the dinosaurs with catchy songs and witty dialogue. Chloe had a speaking part as one of the dinosaur narrators. She was by far the best one!! (Of course!) It was fun to go and see Chloe and her classmates in their play!