NOVEMBER

Starting off  the last 8 weeks of the year!  Wow.  It always goes by so fast.  Here are a few some fun pictures of the boys.  Dallin loves his big brother so much and always wants to be exactly like or doing exactly what Kasen is doing.

These two boys have such a fun relationship.  Kasen loves to create things and one day he made this Michael Jordan replica for Dallin since he loves Space Jam so much.  Kasen spent a few hours working on it.  Meanwhile, Ava made cookies and Dallin sneaked in and ate one bite out of each cookie while they were cooling.

Of course we had to start off the month facetiming with our new baby Deantre.  He is so cute and precious.  We can't wait to see him in person!

SCHOOL - Busy, busy month for us this November in the school department.  Ava has been continuing in her Kindness Club group.  There are a lot of girls from the ward in the group too.  They meet early mornings on Wednesday and I'm so proud of these girls for sacrificing their late start day and some extra rest.  Ava also finished her project for science about DNA.  Her model was awesome!

Kasen had some big projects this month as well.  His class made salt dough maps of Idaho for Idaho History.  In GT Kasen's group made suspension bridges out of playing cards and had to work on engineering them properly.

One night Ava was working on a book report and she left it opened on the computer.  I was so impressed by what she had written.  Not even five minutes after I finished reading Ava's report, Kinsley walked in and showed me her table of contents for her new book.  I died laughing.

15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY - We hit a major milestone in 2018 - 15 years of marriage. Jed and I met in 7th grade when we were 13 years old.  That means we have known each other for 25 years.  Literally I've known Jed longer than I haven't known him.  He just gets better and better too.  I'm so lucky to have him in my life - not just as someone that I know, but as the person that I know the best and he knows me better than anyone else too.  We wanted to celebrate with a getaway.  I was hoping for Italy, but we ended up in McCall for the weekend.  Which honestly wasn't the best choice since it was FREEZING, but nice to get away anyway.  We had breakfast at the Pancake House which was so yummy with pancakes the size of a pizza.

ACTIVITIES - For mutual we decided to teach the girls to make pies. This was definitely not my idea, but Kristina loves baking.  She does make cute pies and the girls had fun and I was glad it wasn't at my house to clean up.  It is fun to be with Ava for activities.

A few funny pictures from the month.  Dallin loves his Jazz headband and wristbands.  He likes it pulled really high up and it is so cute and funny with his curly hair.  Kinsley still loves taking selfies with my phone any chance she gets.

FALL LEAVES! - Our 2nd fall in our house and man it is so pretty when all the leaves change colors and so crazy when the leaves fall off.  There are sooooo many leaves.  This year we hired some neighbor boys to come over with a special machine they have that vaccuums up the leaves like a lawnmower and grinds them up really small and then you dump them.  It took them about 6 hours to do our entire yard and that was with half of the time Jed helping them because they were so slow.  Jed was cursing the yard and how much work/time it takes to stay up with it.  It is so beautiful, but it definitely consumes your free time.