Sunday after church we had another rehearsal then we went over to our branch president’s house to watch the CES broadcast and they had a dinner there for the members of the branch. It was good to hang out a little bit after church! Work, work, work, work and more work!!!!! Daxton’s 3 birthday was the following Sunday. I went to church had rehearsal then we had a linger longer with food!! Then a family history fireside. So I was at church all day if felt like. Lets see....... I left my house at 10:25 and got home at 5 pm. That was a long day. My girlfriend Joy came over and we watched the Hospital visit on video and looked through pictures! He was so small. :) then we had angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream!!! YUMMY!!! mom skyped me when they were about to sing happy birthday to Dax! I thought it was really cool that they wanted me to be a part of the family. I miss them so much! Alright THANKSGIVING week!!!!! on wed night I went over to the Petersons house (CJ’s family). I ate dinner and played family games then went in the hot tub! It was sooo cold outside but it felt good. The next day was thanksgiving so I woke up and packed my things and went to play some football. It was fun to play with a big team like we had!
Then after football we went in the hot tub again then it was cookin time! Time to cook everything for dinner! I was in charge of the Yams they turned out good I thought. It was the first thanksgiving ever that there whole family has been together. They have had boys on missions for the past 6 years. And the youngest child is 5. So all 9 children were there for the first time. After dinner we all cleaned up the kitchen and then pulled out the news paper adds!! BLACK FRIDAY!! I picked out a few things I wanted. I went to bed about 1am and got up at 2:15am so not much sleep. We went to go stand in line! We hit a few stores got what we needed what was on our list then we were out of there! I got everything that was on my list and only 2 things that were not on my list so I thought I did a good job. My favorite thing that I got was a jewelry cabinet to hang in my bathroom. On the outside of it you can put pictures it is super cute and it was supposed to be $100 but I got it for $30!! Yea killer price! When we got home from shopping we packed the car and headed for Nauvoo!!! there was 16 of us going. It takes about 4 ½ hours to get there so it was not that bad. When we got there we unpacked and then went to see a play. It was so cute there was a bunch of older brothers and sisters on there missions there. Aunt Jenna’s mom was in charge of the play so I got to see her and Boyd. We were staying in this huge cabin so we all much grabbed our sleeping bags and had a pow wow!! Sat we went out a scavenger hunt! It lead us to different homes and things to look for in the homes. It was fun! I got to see a lot but not everything I cant wait to go back and see the rest! we went back to the cabin ate some pizza and headed home. 4 of the 16 drove back to Utah for school and the rest of us came back to Chicago.
The next day was soooo long. I had to be at church at 9:30am for choir rehearsal then 3 hours of church then another rehearsal after church! But it is good everybody knows the music now!!! HAPPY DAY!! Carolyn just had her 10th birthday!! So we had a party for her on Monday it was fun! Today we had our first night of Hanukkah I am learning a lot I am telling you.. 7 more nights of Hanukkah
