Jazz Won!

My friend Israel has season tickets for the Utah Jazz games. He was nice enough to take me to the game last night. They played the Memphis Grizzlies and won by quite a bit. The final score was 117-100. It was a good game and I enjoyed hanging out with Israel! Thanks, Israel, for inviting me!

Israel wanted to make a funny face in the picture we took of us. Fortunately, he agreed to do a "normal" picture. I let him do a funny face one for being so cooperative about the "normal" one. Looks hot, huh?

Thanksgiving Presents

We received our Thanksgiving package from my mom the other day. I was so excited to see what she had sent! I know...you are probably wondering who gives Thanksgiving presents. I was told yesterday that it wasn't "normal" to give or receive Thanksgiving presents. I have a wonderful mom who always thinks of us and sends us stuff for most major holidays. Thanks, MOM! Anyway, I was so thrilled to see that my mom had sent me a nativity set. I love nativity sets and love collecting different ones. The one she sent me (pictured below) is a Jim Shore set. I love the detail each figurine has on it. She also sent an angel to go with my Willow Tree nativity (I don't have it out yet, so I didn't take a picture of that). Thanks again, Mom...I love it!

Weekend Visit to Vernal

I was able to go visit Rick, Kristen, Gracie, and Pepe in Vernal this last weekend. On Saturday we did some shopping at some of Vernal's cute stores and, of course, Walmart. Kristen had the wonderful idea of making chocolate cookies with candy cane kisses in the middle. We made them on Sunday before I left and they turned out very cute.

The candy kisses melted so you can't tell that's what they are, but the colors are still cute and they were very yummy!

While we were making the cookies, Rick was in watching the 49ers game (they ended up losing...sorry Rick). We tried having Gracie chill with him in the living room so it was easier to make the cookies. She didn't like that idea and just wanted to hang out with the girls in the kitchen. She loves sitting in her highchair playing with toys. The only problem...she likes to try to share her toys with Pepe. This means Kristen ends up picking up toys the whole time. Oh well!

(Isn't she so cute? I wish they lived closer!)

Some Late Halloween Pictures

So Halloween has come and gone, but here are some almost month old pictures.

This is Marianna, our school's wonderful speech pathologist, and me on Halloween. The members of our Special Ed. team were all M&M's. I was a bumble bee...again!

Here are some of the spiders that my students made as one of the centers in the Halloween party. They have York patties in the middle. They all turned out very cute!