Our Brand New Advent Calander
Sam typing our daily activities on strips of paper.
(Yes, this is my very messy desk)

The cute tins Liz and I put together!

It has been such a long time since I have done an all out

craft project. But this year I am feeling better mentally

than the last several Christmas seasons. So even though

I am terribly busy at work, I am trying very hard to

do fun things at Christmas, and not let everything

bog me down. Since Sam is in High School, I feel like

I have very few years left, so we are making them very fun!

I decided we would do a fun advent calander. Ofcourse I

still need to make sure they have treats in them every day.

Heaven forbid, the kids really don't change all that much do they?

Then the kids and I sat down together and made a list of all

the things we wanted to do this year, like watching our

favorite Christmas movies, making our favorite treats,

see the lights at the temple. Make gingerbread houses, ect, ect.

I was kind of surprised how excited the kids were to help. Even Sam.

Now ofcourse he could care less about cute paper, and such. He left

that up to Liz and I. But he printed and cut the stips out.

I put the strips in the containers, plus a few surprises of my

own. So they don't know everything. But we

are very excited for a fun holiday season!

Here is a picture of Liz's Girl Scout troop doing a food drive.

Their group brought in 20 boxes of food that was donated

to the local Lutheran church. Here they are at the church

helping put all the food that was collected from the church, and their

private school. There was a ton of food! The girls helped put

together boxes that held all the fixings for a Thanksgiving

dinner, plus another dinner or two. The girls had a great time~

Busy Lizzy!

Since football is over, there

is a little more breathing time.

Very little actually. I thought I would

catch you up on what Liz has been up to.

Since June, she has been working really hard

with her YW personal progress.

Our ward had a baby boom over these last

several months with 6 babies being born.

So the Beehive class made quilts for each of

them. Since Liz has sewing experience, she

made 3 of them. And with all her hard work

she was able to complete her first 10 hour

project. for Good Works ofcourse.

She loves YW! They have some wonderful

leaders. She has also joined some friends in

a girl scout troop. As if we weren't busy enough.

But they have done some great service projects,

and have a great group of girls and mothers.

Both she and I are having lots of fun with that.