November Update

Now that it is December I guess I will finally catch up with what we did in November.  We didn't seem to do that much, but life just seemed so busy.  At the beginning of November Megan and Bryson finished up their soccer season.  The last day of soccer was FREEZING, but they were excited to get their trophies and team pictures.  This year they both looked at the camera!
 
Here is Bryson playing his last game, and Josh handing out the trophies to all his players and saying nice things about each of them.  He was a great coach.

Here is Megan with her 2 coaches and her last game.  She didn't want to play the last game since she had been sick and whenever she ran it made her cough, but she at least stuck the game out in the cold weather and played goalie, her favorite position.

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Megan participated in a music club and at the end of the course they had a performance that went along with the school's family reading night.  They served us dinner (chicken nuggets, corn, carrots & cookies) read a story and then we got to watch Megan perform. 

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

After the performance we went to the book fair where Megan won a free book!  It was a great night.  Here is Megan with her music teacher, Mr. A

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Thanksgiving was a lot of fun this year.  We had Josh's brother, Jacob and his family come out to visit with us.  We also invited our good friends, the Gremmerts over to eat dinner with us.  We had a delicious dinner with plenty of food.  We played some Catch Phrase to let the food settle and then we finished it off with the must have pie.

Later that night Julia, Tiffany and I decided to go to Toys R Us when they opened at 10pm and get some of their deals.  We got there 10 minutes until they opened.  It was raining pretty good but we decided that once we got in line it would be 10pm and then we could get inside.  So we grabbed our umbrellas and headed to the line that went to the end of the building, around the corner and then all the way to the back of the building.  We got in line and it didn't seem to move, just a little at a time.  As we got closer to the front of the line we spoke to an employee who informed us that they are only letting in 25-50 people at a time.  So an hour later and we finally got in to the store.  To make a long story short.  After finding the stuff we wanted or not finding it since they were all sold out...already, we waited in another line to check out for 2 HOURS!  Yeah, we're crazy.  We thought that we would have time to run to Wal-Mart at midnight when they opened and we thought that we would be trying to kill time waiting for midnight... no we got in line to check out at midnight.  We didn't get out of the store until 2am.  We all agreed that we will never do that again.  And to prove how cold it was when we were standing out in the line, the rain turned to snow while we were inside.

I called Josh to run to Wal-Mart and he got home a little later then I did.  Then he headed back out to Target and then back to Wal-Mart to pick up the TV that he wanted to get.  He got home at 6am.  So Friday was spent sleeping most of the day and then Saturday we went out shopping.  The kids were able to write letters to Santa Claus to ask him for the things that they want. 

This is what Megan wants...  I was able to talk her out of the American Girl doll and into an Our Generation doll since they are much cheaper. 

And this is what Bryson wants for Christmas.

We found some great buys and finished most of our Christmas shopping.
We had a great time with Jacob & Julia and their family and we feel so grateful to have family close enough to spend the holidays with. 
The rest of the month was spent waiting with anticipation to find out if Josh got into dental school at U of L.  Which you already know the outcome to that. :-)