Thanksgiving Dinner

Not only did Calvin carve our Thanksgiving turkey he artistically displayed it back on the platter. Pretty fancy, eh?

Now showing all over St. George

Audrey performed with two groups this past week. She played trumpet with her high school jazz band and french horn with her band and the Dixie State University Band. French horns always get all the good parts and she had some good ones plus a couple of solos. She sure loves her music!

Babies and Water

What is it that babies find so fascinating about water? At home, Kate loves to sit on the edge of the sink and fill little cups with water or just splash as the faucet is running. Grandma figured out a way to keep baby happy without having to hold on to her the whole time. We both had a GREAT hour.

TERRY FATOR LIVE in VEGAS!

Connie and I took Katrina and Karen to Vegas for their birthdays last night. It was loads of fun. We began the evening eating in a Tapas Bar. You order different Spanish appetizers and share them. It was sooo good. Karen got the winning dish of ham and cheese thingies. I came in 2nd with bacon wrapped stuffed dates with blue cheese. They really were delicious!
We saw Terry Fator at the Mirage. This was the first show I have ever been to see in Vegas and it was really good. I didn't like the feeling of developing lung cancer as I walked through the casino to get to the theatre but the rest of the evening was firs rate! Here's a link to Terry if you haven't seen him or know who he is:

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28 Days 'Till Christmas

If you wonder what Santa is up to as we approach the holiday season...he is in sunny St. George relaxing at my house. Eat your heart out!

Camoflauge the Turkey

I sent home turkey patterns that the students were supposed to dress up in such a way that they wouldn't get eaten on Thanksgiving. Here were some of my favorites: the turkey as the hunter instead of the hunted, Santa turkey and Kevin from "UP".

Wonderful Connie!

This is the bulletin board Connie came and put up in my classroom for November. During parent conferences one parent turned to me after looking at the bulletin board and said, "You really LOVE teaching, don't you?" What could I say? I replied, "Why, yes I do!"

Couponing

Karen and Verenda have started shopping the Super Savvy Way with some lady at the Daily Herald. Coupons are the way to go! They got me excited and I connected with the online sight for St. George and as soon as I get my newspaper coming in, I will start buying smarter. I have printed out online coupons from coupons.com, redplum.com and smartsource.com to get started. Since I ALWAYS have more month than money I'll let you know how I do. If you live in the greater St. George area and your only local Sunday paper is The Spectrum go to www.grocerysmarts.com and type in the code for our area which is g84cjg (case sensitive) for local specials. YEA saving!

Conference in Orem

We watched the remainder of Conference at Ron and Verenda's house. Pictured are Calvin with pen poised enjoying the "highest form of meditation" to quote Randy, which is sleeping during a church meeting. Ron picked me a colorful crop of carrots and other goodies from his garden to take home. His favorite veggie was the flying saucer squash that grew from an heirloom squash seed Karen had given him.

Temple Square

WOW! What a thrill to be in the right place at the right time with the right people...if you know what I mean. It was powerful to be seated with God's living prophet on the earth and most of the twelve apostles. Just like in days of old. The Stake President seated behind us had brought an elderly non-member relative and was showing him pictures from an Ensign of the "Twelve" and explaining their previous jobs and what they do now. It got me excited to hear him so excited as he tried to get Uncle ___ excited. We were there Saturday morning for the powerhouse talks. It was so GREAT that we ran back to Nana's apartment, gulped down her homemade veggie stew and ran to get in line for the afternoon. One of these pictures shows us after they let 600 more people in the Conference Center. We were numbers 601, 602, 603 and didn't get in. *sigh* We had to settle for watching conference in the historic tabernacle. There was lots of room in there. The next best seats were the Joseph Smith Auditorium with plush seats but we wanted to tough it out on hard wooden benches in the balcony. We were basically too lazy to walk to the Joseph Smith building.