Our Weekend

Our Weekend-

Field trip to San Juan Bautista

Turlock Christmas Parade

Alyssa and Allison Sleep Over

Set up for Santa Breakfast

Santa Breakfast

Hailee's Birthday

Ward Christmas Party

Rest

Pictures from Ward Christmas Party

Field Trip to San Juan Bautista

Friday I went on a field trip to the San Juan Bautista Mission with Ashlee's class. They were given a scavenger hunt (a fancy name for homework on a field trip) to be completed while they were there. There were about 50 questions and it took the whole time to get it done. We had like 1 min left to spare.

Ashlee and Alyssa inside the Chapel of the mission.

Alyssa, Ashlee and Camryn

Alyssa, Ashlee, Camryn and Sarah

Class pictures before getting ready to get on the bus and head back to school.

Afterschool Friday, Ashlee's friend Alyssa and Mikayla's friend Allison came home with us. Friday night we went to the Christmas Parade in Turlock. It's a pretty large parade. Thousands of people line the streets of Downtown Turlock. We got there and hour and 15 minutes before it started just to get a spot. The entire parade lasted and hour and half. They had arts and crafts for the kids to do before the parade started. The girls are making place mats and ornaments.

Turlock Christmas Parade

Laying down getting ready for the parade to start.

After the parade we headed back to the school to set-up and decorate for the Santa Breakfast Saturday morning. We were home and in bed around 11:30. Saturday morning we were up at 5 am and back at the school for the Santa Breakfast. John has been re-named the EB for the egg beater. We went through 3 cases of eggs plus some more. John beated and cooked eggs for 3 hours. I mixed lots of pancake batter and washed lots of dishes. We had a great turn out and the event was a success. Saturday afternoon we went and saw the movie Tangled for my niece Hailee's birthday. It was a very cute movie. Saturday night we had our ward Christmas party. We are still on the activities committee, so we had to set-up, prepare, clean-up etc for it.

Sunday we spent the day at home. We never got out of our pajamas. We were beat. We needed to rest up for the week ahead.

Post Thanksgiving/Christmas Crafts

Friday afternoon the girls and I went to my mom's house. My mom had some craft projects for the kids to work on. The kid's made some glass ball ornaments, beaded icicle ornaments and wreath ornaments.

Each year my mom comes up with a craft for the kids to make and give to their classmates. This year the kids made Magic Sleep for their classmates. We made an assembly line on the living room floor and everyone had a job to do. Ashlee did the bags. Landon put in the marshmallows. Mikayla put in the candy cane. Dylan put in the chocolate bell. Hailee put in the little poem and my mom and I tied the bags.

While dinner was being made the kids went outside and played some soccer. Once dinner was made and Grandpa Billy and Kay arrived we ate. We had Mexican food with all the fixins.

Silly Faces

Thanksgiving

Gobble, Gobble. The girls and I made these cute and easy turkey cookies Thanksgiving morning.

For Thanksgiving we went to Teresa and Danny's home. These cute little ships were the place settings for the kids table.



The adult table was beautifuly decorated too.

Some family pictures before the feast.

Danny, Teresa, Audrey, Preston, Carlee and Nicholas:

Our little family picture. You can tell we are not a photogenic group!

Kent, Becca and Nicholas

Every year Danny and Teresa have a little competitive activity. The winner receives a $50 gift card. This year the activity was potato launching. The winner was Sam.

It was great day. We are Thankful for our family and for all the blessings we have in our lives.

Primary Program

Today our ward had their Primary Program. Here are some pictures of the girls before leaving for church this morning.
This week has been a week we don't care to repeat. For the second time we have attempted to get the girls their flu shots, but each time one of them for some reason or another becomes ill and so we can't get it done. I guess we just need to have them get them one at a time.
Ashlee has been battling sinus issues and developed some sort of a rash. A rash the doctor suspected to be hives. Hives to what we don't know. The doctor suggested we do an allergy test on her. I am not so sure that will solve anything. We know she battles allergy issues and it's something we have just gotten use to. I think it comes with living where we live.
Mikayla has had a horrible stomach ache all week. To the point she is hunched over in tears. After the third day I took her to the doctor. By then she was dehydrated, but they couldn't really figure out what was going on so they ordered some tests. As of yesterday we finally were able to complete all the tests, but now we have to wait 3-5 days to get the results. There is a possibility of e-coli or salmonella. She ate some raw cookie dough and turkey that none of the rest of us ate. Unfortunately there isn't much that can be done if it is, but let it run it's course. Luckily, as of Saturday afternoon she had migrated off the couch so hopefully the end is near and she can resume her daily activities again.
I am on antibiotics again for an infection and John has been battling some sort of sinus/cold this week as well. Needless to say I am glad the week has come to an end. I hope we can put the week behind us and have a better week next week.

Halloween

This year for Halloween Ashlee was a skeleton bride and Mikayla was a ladybug. Friday night we went to a carnival and trunk or treat at their school. Both the girls helped do carnival booths instead of playing the carnival games.

Ashlee is a Skeleton Bride and Mikayla a Ladybug

Saturday night was our Ward Trunk or Treat. We didn't do much to our car this year. With lack of time and decorations, John just through this together.