Sickness

I started getting a sore throat last night and woke up with a nasty head cold today.  Trevin also woke up with an upset stomach so he stayed home from school today.  I hate being sick and hope no one else gets it.

Tree Trimming

We decorated the tree for Family Night tonight.  The boys decided they just want to set up this tree this year, they don't want to do the "kid tree" downstairs.  It's kinda sad when they grow up and don't want to do all the same traditions anymore.  They did at least humor me and wore their Santa hats while they were decorating and we had a good time.

Sad Day

It was a sad day for the Nielsen's today.  We all got toether at Todd and Haylee's to watch the BYU vs UofU football game.  BYU lost but it was a very good game.  We love it when they are exciting.  We think they got some bad calls that should have been different and we should have won.  We had good food and good fun and lots and lots of cheering for a great game day.

Tyrel and I had a Guitar Hero competition for 3 hours when we got home for our November date.  It was fun.  I even played one song on Expert and got 51%, he said I did well, but I thought that was pretty bad.  I don't do well with that 5th finger (the orange button).  I just can't seem to get my act together to be able to play with that finger.  We had fun though!

Another Week

with no blogging from me.  So here I am playing catch up.  Saturday Heidi and I had a home party in Draper.  We decided it's maybe the wrong time of year.  People are so busy this time of year.  Sunday was church, Trevin had the scripture for Primary sharing time.

Monday Trevin had the Family Night lesson and then Sean took us all to the dollar store to get our own treats.

Tuesday was Pack Night and it was also the night we were supposed to get the "blizzard of the century" but we only ended up with a few inches of snow.  Travis was bummed that we didn't let him drive to school though.  We were worried that it was going to be crazy and he hasn't ever driven in the snow before.  He is not loving the bus.  Trevin has been studying Ancient Civilizations in Social Studies this year and they put on a Temples and Tombs program at the school and it was really cute!  He would have made his Grandpa Nielsen proud with his acting skills.  He got to leave school when it was over and come home with us.

Wednesday we just kind of chilled around the house doing nothing.  My mom didn't want me to bring anything for Thanksgiving except a pint of whipping cream, so my day that is usually full of pie making was totally empty.

Thursday we went to Leamington for Thanksgiving.  The food was great.  We got into a conversation about our favorite Thanksgiving food.  My Thanksgiving is not complete without celery stuffed with cheese.  Sean loves the jellied cranberries.  Heidi and Brett both love crinkled potato chips with onion dip.  My boys all love ham more than the turkey.  Dad and Andrea love pecan pie and all my boys plus Sean love pumpkin pie the best.  Me, I had to try slivers of 3 different kinds of pie because I can't decide.  The kids watched a movie and played some games and the adults watched a football game and sat around and visited.  It was a fun day with family.  Oh, I forgot to mention that Jaron's favorite thing was the olives.

Friday was my normal set up the tree day, but Sean had traded some pest control for some carpet cleaning and the carpet guy only works on Fridays and Saturdays, so we got the upstairs carpet cleaned plus the stairs.  The house was freezing because the door was open for a couple hours but it was nice to de-junk the rooms upstairs that we had to move stuff out of the way so he could clean the carpets.  I'll have to put my tree up tomorrow I guess.  The boys and I played Wii sports and watched Elf.

First Overnight Campout

Trevin is going on his first overnight campout with the 11 year old scouts tonight.  I guess it is technically his 2nd since they camped out at Scout camp over the summer.  He was pretty excited to be going.  They are headed to Goblin Valley with the deacons and lots of leaders.  I hope he doesn't freeze, there is supposed to be a storm coming in tonight.

Sean was kind of bummed he couldn't go with Trevin on his campout, but he has been busy doing his mining certification in Salt Lake.  He was there all day yesterday, today, and will go up again tomorrow to finish up his hours.  He got the bid for pest control at the cement plant and they are requiring him to be mining certified in order to do the work on their site.  Hopefully it will open up some other contracts with other mines for him also.  Did you know that 24% of the industry in the state of Utah is mining related?  Interesting fact, I know!

Home Party in Fillmore

Heidi and I had a home party in Fillmore today.  Actually, it was at the library instead of at someone's home.  There was a fair turnout and they had lots of questions and all showed a lot of interest.  In fact, we sold out of the programs we ordered to sell to those interested in learning and will probably be teaching a class there very very soon.  There were quite a few that wanted to learn to use Photoshop and between them and the ladies in Scipio from last week that want to learn, we should be able to have a pretty full class.  The library has a big room that we can teach in and the price is very reasonable.  We are going to do it all in one day - 8 hours of instruction and fun!  Heidi had to leave a little early, so it was kind of crazy with everyone filling out order forms and stuff.  I hope they keep the enthusiasm until we can get down there to teach them a class.

When I got home, I had about 5 minutes before Travis and Tyrel got home with their ASL lab group.  Their little group of three has now grown to five.  It seems that they are the only group that actually does anything, so they are having people jump ship from other groups and joining theirs.  They sounded like they had fun again.

Busy Day

What a busy day.  You won't think so when you read this, but it seemed like it was a totally crazy busy day for me.  Probably mostly because I was still trying to get caught up from being gone on Saturday last week and had to get my house back in order and laundry done.

We had visiting teaching appointments set with two of our ladies that we teach and had nice visits with both of them.  I also had to make cake because I had book club with our ward book club at my house tonight.  I made pumpkin cake and got some taco soup ready and on the stove to simmer before I left to go visiting teaching so we could eat quick when I got home and get the kitchen picked up before the book club ladies arrived.  They all seemed to like the book "Good Night Mr. Tom" and we had a fun discussion.