November

 Into November...the month of Thanksgiving.  I enjoy Thanksgiving because there is no pressures to make sure you have the right gift, can you find the right gift, is the holiday fun.  That can be a lot of work, but with Thanksgiving, you just need to be thankful and fix a good dinner.  😋 

Olivia, Heidi, Linnea, Sam, Julianna

The first weekend of November we held a bridal shower for Linnea.  She gets married December 17.  I was helping Joy with the food and brought a crockpot of meatballs.  It tipped in the car and I lost all of the teriyaki sauce on my floor mat.  It is a rubber mat, but it slid to the edge and got on the floor carpet.  Tried to get it up the best I could.  Hope the smell doesn't come back in summer! 

Joy, Bryce's mom and sister

It was a nice shower and she received great gifts.

Mom, Joy and Linnea

We went out to eat on a Saturday night.  At the end we were talking about how the bill was over $50.  Jacob started to sit back and say Ahhh, ahhh, hold up his sodas and say ahhh...picked up the bill, looked it over, put it back down in front of Jason, sat back and said, "Ahhh."  It was so funny!

Just after this dinner out on Saturday, Jason got sick on Monday.  He didn't feel well on Tuesday and Wednesday.  He tested and was positive for Covid.  I had begun feeling a little weird on Tuesday, but didn't think much of it.  Then on Wednesday I began to feel sick and tested positive for Covid.  Jacob began on Wednesday and was home Thursday and Friday from school.  We felt achy, runny nose, tired.  I was in bed all day on Thursday, but Friday was up and around a bit.  Luckily by the time I felt sick Jason was getting better.  He had gotten the latest vaccine the Thursday before we all got sick.  I think that saved him from being sick much longer.   

For Thanksgiving (which was the week after we got Covid) Chris and Jen came into town.  It was fun to see them and visit.

Everyone trying to get Tanner to smile

Dinner was good.  It was all of Chris' family (minus Stephanie who was in Costa Rica with Devin's family), Mom and us.  Heidi and her family came over after wards for dessert. 

We finally got some snow.  

Thanksgiving weekend we got our tree up and things looking like they might be ready for Christmas.  Jason left the Monday after Thanksgiving for 2 weeks.  Not Thailand or Singapore, but Houston.  He is talking a class for his new job at Chevron.  They wanted them to stay for the weekend for bonding activities.  😏  

Jacob is working to get caught up after being home with Covid as well as just in general.  2nd quarter is proving to be more work and he is having to learn to adjust to that.  It can be hard some days, but he is perfectly capable.  The biggest struggle is not getting distracted with his computer (YouTube and memes).  😒😬

On to Christmas!