Look who's THREE!!!

 Okay, maybe she isn't actually three but that is what her dessert said.

Look who's 3!

We had a lot of fun celebrating Me today.  She is a wonderful mom and wife besides being an all out fantastic person.  We ate manicotti and green beans for dinner and had lemon blueberry crisp with ice cream for dessert.

Flowers from U.

Matthew wanted Me to wear this sash all day long.

A lady in our ward made her a custom birthday bag.

Me with her shirt, popcorners, jeans, socks, chocolate, wax warmer and squishmallow unicorn.

Sarah facetimed to talk to wish Me a happy birthday!

November Happenings

Megan and Matthew did a combined ELA/Social Studies project on someone who made significant contributions to history. They both chose someone who had ties to our Great Lakes trip: Megan did Pontiac and Matthew did Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. First they wrote a paper and did a presentation in ELA. Then they made a poster sharing some of the information they learned.

Megan dressed up for her presentation about Pontiac. She figured it was ok to dress up like a female Native American, especially since the males often didn't wear shirts.

Matthew did his project in the shape of a traditional summer home.

Megan's map poster on Pontiac.

Matthew had another robotics tournament.

Megan and U went on a horse back ride with the YM/YW.

Megan loves horses.

Lots of people.

U

Megan on her horse.

Everyone who went.

The jazz band played at the school district headquarters one morning.

Close up of Matthew (and a few other kids).

Grandma and Grandpa A came for Thanksgiving. We enjoyed doing a 5K Turkey Trot, eating yummy food, playing and watching football, playing games, visiting and going to temple lights. We did a good job not taking many pictures. (Let's say it was because we were living in the moment....)

Me and Grandma walking during the Turkey Trot.

Yummy dinner.

We went to temple lights at the Mesa temple.

Pretty flowers.

Grandpa, Me, Matthew, Megan and Grandma with the temple.

Nativity

I really liked the orange lights.

They also came in purple. What kind of fruit is that?

Megan quote: Thanksgiving: the one day of the year you should definitely not be wearing Christmas clothes!

(She also believes that Christmas decorations should not be up until AFTER Thanksgiving.)

We enjoyed our  German Yum box.

We used a dog scan app to see what kind of a mix Artemis is.

This was a surprising result.....
Matthew was excited that he was some of the same type of dog as Artemis.

After Matthew's results, we decided to see what type of dog Megan was. This was interesting.

So was this. So Ciel looks like a human but Matthew does not??? Ha ha!

We donated our remaining embryos from IVF to Becca and Matthew. They had a successful cycle and James Ryan was born November 28. He weighed 6 lb. 7 oz. and was 20 inches long. 

What a happy family!