11/17/2010

Hello to all,
One week from tomorrow is Thanksgiving, if you can believe it! We will have 28 people here: G&G Peterson, the Bastians, the Merrills, us (including Becca and Nathan), and probably Matt Peterson, and maybe his brother, Ryan. So I'm trying to decide where we will seat everyone. I am very excited to see my sisters and to laugh and hear their stories. The kids reminded me tonight at dinner about Aunt Julie's true experience the first time she went with the youth to the new Twin Falls temple, and accidentally walked into the men's dressing/shower room at the baptistry. I got laughing pretty hard remembering her story and I can't wait to have her tell it again. It is hilarious!

The youth in our ward went to the temple tonight to do baptisms, so Dad, Blake and Tyler got to do that. We are so lucky to live so close to the temple. Now that Lauren is in school, I have been trying to go to the temple twice a month on my own, and Dad and I go once a month together. The first and third Tuesday of the month I help out in Lauren's and Aubrey's classes at school and then I go visit my parents. The other two Tuesdays, I try to go to the temple before I visit G&G. This last weekend Dad and I went to dinner out in West Jordan and then we went to the Jordan River temple where we were married almost 28 years ago.

When I was visiting G&G on Tuesday, Grandpa asked me to help him put up their outdoor Christmas lights. So I was ready to climb up on the ladder, but he had other plans. He climbed the ladder and connected the lights, and my job was to steady the ladder and uncoil the lights for him. He went up and down the ladder over and over and over again- from the roof over the front porch, clear east to the end of the house. He is an amazing 80 year old!

Dad's sisters and G Williams sang in our ward on Sunday. We sang a medley of Teach Me to Walk in the Light and The Light Divine. But, of course, nothing ever goes smoothly as planned. I was sitting in our usual spot on the second row with our kids and Keon and Tanaeya. The rest of the Williams clan was on the left side, 3 and 4 rows from the back, because some of them had to leave as soon as we sang. I was enjoying the meeting just fine until I noticed Tabitha (who had come to tend Julie's Jaden and baby Mikelle while Julie sang) squatting next to our bench in the middle of the meeting. She whispered that Jaden had thrown up and Julie needed to leave fast and she needed Keon and Tanaeya to come quick. Apparently in the middle of the first talk Jaden had urgently told Julie that he needed to go to the bathroom. She barely got him in there when he threw up in the toilet. thank goodness. Then they came out into the foyer and Julie was trying to decide what to do, when he said he had to do it again. So they ran back to the bathroom, where he hit the spot again. Now Julie knew they had to leave before we sang, but her baby and two other kids where in the chapel. So she opened the door and tried to get her sister's attention three rows up. Laura brought Mikelle out and Tabitha fetched the other two. Jaden threw up on the way home in the car into a bag. And we sang without Julie. Never a dull moment!

We are hosting a bishopric party here on Friday night. Sweet Pork Burritos! The Sharps are in charge of games. This is for the whole bishopric, so I think we'll have about 16 people here. It will be fun!\

For FHE this week, we went to visit Matt Brown. He was just home from the hospital after having a ruptured appendix and emergency appendectomy. We visited the Browns for a little  while. Then we took our report cards to Krispy Kreme where they give you 1/2 dozen glazed doughnuts for each good report card. Then we went to visit Steven and Lacie to see their new house. A fun night!

I need to go pick up Blake from his friend's house where he just finished watching the BYU basketball game. He has applied to work at Dicks Market and just went back today to let them know he's still interested when there's an opening. It pained him to put on a pair of jeans and a polo shirt to do the job thing.He has worn basketball shorts and a tee shirt to school every single day this year, except for a few football game days when the coach prescribed other clothes they had to wear.
I keep telling the boys that it is okay to not be as comfortable as you are in your pajamas, but they don't believe me.

I love you all,
Mom