November

We  received an invitation from the Cutlers to join them for ice cream.  Apparently Merinda had been asked to bring ice cream to an event and they over calculated numbers.  Andersons came too.  Jacob was with friends watching a movie.  It was yummy and we had fun!

Ice cream Party!

In November the Bosch store does a pie 
making class.  I always like to go and get
tips.  They made a coconut cream pie I really
liked--I usually don't like that type of pie, but this
one was really good.  

Dinner and a movie at Cathey's one weekend

 

This is the second weekend of pizza and 
visiting with Catheys.  

Weekend #2

Weekend #2

I had a blow dryer question for Brook which
led to us getting together for lunch.  It was so fun
to visit with her!! She seems to be doing well.

Brook and Erin both recommended

blow dryers to me.  Erin recommended

the Dyson, but at $300 not going to do 

that one.  ;)

Brook recommended one I found on

Amazon.  A ceramic one that is 

supposed to blow your hair dry 

very quickly.  It did dry it quickly, 

but it also tangled it.  I tried it for a 

week hoping I could get it to work,

but ended up returning it and finding 

my order from 2018 for my $20

blow dryer that works great!  

Back in my single days the ward 
put together these milk carton (you
can tell how old it is from the fact
that they still used milk cartons!) 
emergency kits.  They were for 3 days 
and very simple.  It was from 1993 and
I opened it up to see how it was 33 
year later.  

Here are the items, hot cocoa mix, apple cider
mix, granola bars, fruit leather, jerky, crackers,
trail mix, etc.  One of the granola bars was 
decent. Crackers and trail mix were stale.  
There were 2 kids of fruit leather and one of
them was still good!  I circled it in the picture.
I'm guessing it was at the very center of the 
carton and had the least exposure to air.  It didn't
crack and still tasted OK.

 

Friendsgiving!!  From the time Jason and I got engaged (Nov 19, 2005) I have joined them in their Thanksgiving dinner.  Traditionally held on the Sunday before Thanksgiving.  We did this until 2020 with Covid.  In 2022 we changed it to February because we couldn't do it in November 2021.  That was the last time we held it.  

This year I texted to see if they wanted to do it again and not have all the kids join us.  We had it on a Saturday night and it was fun to see everyone.  The only ones who couldn't come were Carolyn and Richie.  

Jason, Jennifer, Lisa, Brad, Kristianna,
Clark and Gina

I wanted pumpkin pie and on Sunday decided to try it.  Unfortunately the crust did not bake.  I need to work on it.  There is always next year.  

Then there is my 21 year old car.  The speedometer doesn't work--I use an app for a speedometer when I'm driving the freeway.  My check engine light went on again (it went on in October when the battery died).  I called our mechanic, Todd and he said to bring it by.  I got up early on Wednesday, got gas, and drove over to his house.  After getting gas the light went out.  He did a reading anyway to see what might be wrong.  He said he'd have to look it up and get back to me. He was heading out  on a cruise for 2 weeks so I'm not sure what it wrong, but the light is off!  

Thanksgiving!  I made a lemon sour cream pie and a blackberry pie.  Others contributed salad, veggies, other pies, turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, ham, etc.  

We went over about noon and ate around 2 p.m.  It was good to visit with everyone.  Janette and Jared came in for the weekend and they went with Josh, Irina, Sarah, Daniel and Sage canyoneering on Friday.  Dan and Sage were not with us at Thanksgiving because earlier in the week they flew to Taiwan.  Sage has flying privileges through her mom until she is 24 so they are taking advantage of it.  

The whole week Jason had off and it was busy.  Yard work, replaced the garbage disposal, shopping, going to the gym etc.  

Friday we got our Christmas stuff up.  These pictures are things I got from Mom's.  The wooden nativity is from when I was little.  

The Hershey's dark chocolate mints go into the advent box counting down the days.  I LOVE those things and can go through bags of them!!

On to December!