Megan spent Monday with her BFF, Paula. When Paula's mom picked Megs up, she gave us some clothes that Paula had outgrown. Most of them were Beth's size, which thrilled Beth. They were all in perfect condition, so it was just like getting new clothes. Beth doesn't get a lot of those as she's the third girl. She picked her very favorite outfit and put it on that night to go to Walmart. We call it her Mary Kay dress ~
Elder Robinson found out that he was getting transferred to a different area on Wednesday, so he came over Tuesday night to say good-bye. Jack dressed him up and they went "skating". Rob was thrilled with Jack's choice of dress up clothes (if there was a sarcasm font, I'd be using it). Personally, I think the wide brimmed black hat compliments the Batman shirt ;) Elder Robinson was a good sport as usual though and Jack had a lot of fun.
We got a family picture with Elder Robinson ~
We had to get a shot of Elder Robinson with Simon. Simon HATED missionaries before Elder Robinson came along. Simon really doesn't like most adult males. Elder Robinson decided he would fix that and he worked and worked to earn Simon's trust. It took quite a while, but Elder Robinson is now one of Simon's favorite people :)
We said another good-bye this week. Our Fuji apple box finally gave up the ghost. We've got this box (at Costco I think) shortly after we moved here. It's been a toy box, a car, an art studio, a plane, a train, a rocket ship, a boat, a school chalkboard, and countless other things. It always makes me laugh when something as simple as a cardboard box provides so much entertainment, yet things we actually spend money on only keep the kids occupied for a few days.
Wednesday Rob got home from work early and we headed off to Cabela's, a huge sporting goods store with a zoo of stuffed animals (as in real animals that are now dead) and an aquarium. On the way we picked up dinner and ice cream cones at Braum's. While at Cabela's, the kids found wooden pop-guns and begged us to buy some (Kylie and Jack were especially adamant that we needed them). We let them pick out two and are now the proud owners of a pink camo pop-gun and a brown camo pop-gun. We wrapped up the night by eating peanut m&m's while watching the first half of Star Wars Episode IV. The kids have never watched Star Wars before, but they have been playing with our Star Wars monopoly game for the past week and love the characters. Jack's favorite is "tiny robot", aka R2D2.
We had a very low-key Thanksgiving day. We slept in late, then had monkey bread (made completely by Megan!), grapes, carrots, snap peas, and broccoli for brunch. We let the kids graze off the veggies and grapes (the monkey bread was eaten fairly quickly) all day. I got the turkey in the oven and then we spent a few hours relaxing. We stuck with a very classic Thanksgiving dinner and had turkey, gravy (which Rob made and did a much better job than I usually do), stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, crescent rolls, and our traditional jello mold. We had organic sparkling pomegranate juice to drink, but had issues opening the bottles. Rob came to the rescue with his channel locks :) Dessert was chocolate pie, pumpkin pie, and cheesecake. We ended up only eating the cheesecake as we were so full from dinner. Allison joined us for dinner and Christy came over later that evening to spend some time with us and pick up some stuffing.
After dinner, Jack crawled under the table and fell asleep, making sure to keep his pop-gun under him ~
We finished off the night by watching the second half of Episode IV.
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