Pieces of November

November seemed to have come and gone so fast!  Here are a few pieces to fill in the blanks.

 

We are still in awe when we look out the window and see the deer in our backyard!

Lauren had crazy hair day at school.

She also sang in a Veteran's Day program that was really a great tribute to our Veterans.  Local Veterans were invited to come and were introduced.  It was really neat to see and hear their experiences.

Jason and Austin spent some quality time working and playing on the go-cart.

We made lots of pumpkin chocolate chip muffins that made me miss Clovis.

Ashlyn went on a "date' with Kristin to the movies.

Paige doesn't like to be left out when it's time for chores so I gave her a job!

Ashlyn is just cute.  No idea who took this picture or what she was doing, but it was in November so I thought I'd throw it in!

Jason and I picked up some treadmills after being warned about Utah winters.

We were using them pretty regularly until we got sick.  That's me sick.  Don't ask me why it looks like I'm smiling.  I felt like death warmed over.

After sending the kids to bed one night, I went up to check on them and found both Jessica and Ashlyn doing this:

To which I responded by taking a couple of pictures, shrugging and being glad they were quiet.  Some days are just like that.

 

I worked in the basement some more. I made a pretend window using mirrors and hung up some more curtains.  I love having a fort!  We had an extra mattress and some bedding, so I put them in the rock wall room just in case we needed an extra bed when family came to visit.

And I decided to hang up the extra pictures laying around on the unfinished wall of our unfinished basement, just because.  Why not? 

 

Jason brought home a huge white board.  We set up another homework station.

And finally hung some blinds in the basement and got the rest of the "walls" up down there.

And we decorated for Christmas and got an early start on wrapping presents.