We got back home from Las Vegas late Sunday night. Monday I just did a lot of recovery, laundry, cleaning and unpacking etc from the trip. Monday night we met lots of Dad's siblings at Chuck a rama in Orem for Grandma Stanleys 94th birthday party. It was really fun to talk to everyone there. A bunch of big Polynesian BYU football players were sitting by us and Aunt Evelyn went and spoke to them and told them that it was Grandma Stanley's birthday and that she is a really big BYU football fab and then one by one they each came over and introduced themselves to Grandma Stanley and wished her a happy birthday. We got pictures of a few of them with Grandma. Tuesday, I went with James on a field trip to see a movie called Wonder at the megaplex theatre at the district. Athlos doesn't have busses so they asked for volunteers to help drive loads of kids there. We had to do an online defensive drivers training and get background check etc. I already had that so it wasn't too bad. I also worked on decorating for Christmas over a few days this week. Wednesday, I got to go to the airport and see Lindsay come in. It was pretty exciting to see her. Her flight got in really early so Grandma and Grandpa J were the only ones there when she came down. It was fun to see her. James is still really excited about Christmas, which makes it fun here! Thursday, I was able to go visit Shanna. I took lunch (lasagna and salad) and had lunch with her. I also took nail polish and painted her toenails since she cant reach her toes. Friday night, James and Dad and I were able to go to Dad's work Christmas party at the Jazz game. Dad got an extra ticket so James could go. We were also able to go down onto the court to cheer the players back onto the court for the 2nd half. They lined us up and the players acted so bored or uninterested and put out to have to high 5 us before going onto the court. oh well. James was absolutely in Heaven! He loved the whole night. It was fun. Saturday, we cleaned and I canned applesauce all day. When Dad got home we had a late dinner. James was so excited he just wanted to do something. He made a bunch of pieces of paper with ideas on it to choose from for what we could do for the evening for a Christmas activity. We put a bunch of ideas in there and then I told him that I bought a gingerbread house kit. After I told him that then that is all he wanted to do. James and I made the gingerbread house. Then we made popcorn, hot cocoa and watched Home Alone! It was a great day. Jacob came to sacrament meeting today. He hasn't been in months. We are still working on getting him to meet with a counselor and James and Dad and I are also meeting with the counselor so we can get some help and make some improvements in our family/home life. Jacob is going to seminary and not complaining about it. We have had a few good sweet moments which we are thankful for. It is hard with the boys but we celebrate even the tiniest little accomplishment. Shanna and Christian came for dinner tonight. I made lots of Mexican, taco meat, pico de gallo, sweet potato and black beans, lime rice and the rest! and chocolate chip cookies!
It has been super nice weather through Thanksgiving and the last few weeks but today a storm started to blow in. It started snowing tonight.
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