It's almost Thanksgiving!

Last Monday was the appointment to try to turn the baby.  We had a couple come over to our house in the morning.  He is our home teacher.  He was able to take Jared and Lauren to school and she was able to stay home with Bradley and Connor.  I wanted Alan to go with me to the appointment because if something doesn't go as planned then they might have to do an emergency c-section.  We got to the hospital and got all checked in and changed in the room.  Then the nurse midwife came in to do an ultra sound too see if the baby was still head down.  The baby had turned on its own!  Yea!!!  I was really excited. (Now we just need to hope the baby doesn't turn back on its own too.)  I still had to be hooked up to monitors for a non-stress test for a little more than an hour, but it all was fine.  The nurse would say she would be back in 5 minute and would come back in 30 or more minutes.  I told Alan 5 hospital minutes are like 5 football minutes.  Our nurse was really nice though.  She brought me 2 cups of guava passion fruit juice (which I loved...and so did the baby... since I had to show up fasting again).  I also found out she was from the Philippines, but from Baguio which is way up north.  I had several companions from there.  I was glad everything went so well for us at the hospital, but I kept feeling like Alan was getting messages about crazy stuff going on.  He found out that a company they do some work with had a fire over the weekend and it destroyed everything for that company.  There was a little boy in our ward who went missing and a helicopter was flying around looking for him along with people on the ground.  I don't know if there was anything else, but there just kept being news like that the whole time we were there.  (The boy was missing for about 2 1/2 hours and they found him about the same time I was getting home from the hospital.)  I dropped Alan off at work on our way by since it was pretty much right on the way.  Since I dropped Alan off we had to go back and pick him up and take him to his chiropractor appointment later.  Then they dropped me off at a friend's house so we could go to a meeting together.  It was a meeting about math and common core.  The lady who came and presented was from Stanford.  I thought it was really good and she had some good take home points.  When I got home we had a quick family home evening.


Tuesday was just a normal day with not much going on.  I started making some apple pie filling...after cleaning up a little.  I ended up making some apple sauce with about half of the apples that I prepped...they were just too soft for pie filling.  I had to just put the others in the fridge.  I talked to Jeff and Elizabeth a little in the morning too and found out their baby was breech too.  In the afternoon we walked down to the park with some neighbors.  We had sour dough pancakes with our apple sauce for dinner.  The pancakes turned out really well.  Everyone liked them...a lot.  I went to another common core meeting in the evening.  It was pretty similar to a meeting I went to a couple of months ago, but kind of dumbed down for non-educator people like me :)


Sleepy guys waiting for scriptures.

Wednesday we went to playgroup at a park that is pretty close, but we hadn't been to yet.  It was kind of a cooler day, but we still didn't have coats.  We need to go play at the park more.  I enjoyed being outside for such a long time.  After school we went to the library again for the craft.  Then I dropped everyone off at the neighbors (having a visiting teacher across the street is nice and convenient...kind of like Wymount)  so I could go to a doctors appointment.  Everything looked good and baby is still head down.  After dinner I went to Michaels for some things that were on sale.

New fence that got rebuilt on Monday.

We got the make a monsters out to play with!

Thursday was Lauren's first day with a long term sub.  She will have a substitute teacher until after Christmas.  At home we did dishes, sorted and folded laundry, and finished the apple pie filling.  We ended up with 7 quart bags in the freezer  After school we went to Michaels again and got a different wreath form for the wreath I wanted to make.  Connor was sleeping when we got home so I worked on making the wreath.  I spent about 3 hours on it and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  I'm still trying to decide if I should add anything else to it or not.  We ate a quick dinner and went to pack meeting.  It was Jared's first pack meeting.  He earned his Bobcat and an art belt loop.  They did a little skit with knock knock jokes.  We also got the exciting news that Jeff and Elizabeth had their baby.  The couple pictures we've seen of Samuel are super cute!

Jared earned his Bobcat.

Pinning on the Bobcat pin.

Friday some kids came over in the morning so their mom could go help in her son's and Lauren's class.  They weren't happy when their mom left...both of them. (usually just the younger one cries)  But then they both ended up having a good time.  It probably went the best out of any time they have come.  We went to story time when they were gone and then to Frasier Farms.  We hurried home for lunch and to put things away (like usual) before getting Jared and Lauren from school.  Thursday and Friday were both rainy days!  Friday was the longest pick-up line I have ever been in at the school.  I think everyone must have gotten there at the same time and were excited for Thanksgiving vacation to start.  It is really nice that they get the whole week off from school!

Some candy corn fudge I made back around Halloween, but finally took a picture of.  (It was in the freezer)

Saturday Alan went to help a family in our ward put together a shed.  Then we went to a women's volleyball game at University of San Diego.  They were playing BYU and admission was free!  It was also the game that would determine the WCC champions.  It was a really good game.  BYU lost in 5 games, but it was fun and we saw a family from our ward there.  When we got home I went to the store for a quick trip...just to spend $25 so I could get a cheep turkey.  Then Alan went to the temple that night for our ward temple night.  Here at home we ate dinner had showers or baths then got to watch the rest of Toy Story 3 and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and eat popcorn.  (I'm pretty sure Connor ate over half the pop corn on his own...he didn't eat much dinner.)  I worked on my lesson while they watched their movies.

Alan had ward council before church this morning.  I got to teach in primary today and Alan got to teach the 12/13 year old sunday school class.  He said his lesson went well.  Mine was good too.  I said I would teach next week too...then my coteacher could teach the next two weeks.  (You can see how confident I am that the baby won't be coming this week....although I can still hope.  Maybe if I schedule enough for myself the baby with decide to come.   But I also signed up to take some things to our ward Christmas Party the next weekend.)  We have just been home after church.  We skyped with Ashley and Will for a bit, did stations, and I'm trying to make sour dough bread.  It's been a good week.  I'm really looking forward to this coming week with no school and Thanksgiving and Ashley and Will coming to visit.  It should be fun!

Tastes as Yummy as it looks!