November 12 - November 18

   Monday November 12th the girls celebrated Veteran's Day with their annual program at school. I was unable to attend since Alec was sick and couldn't go to school so I enjoyed watching it stream live on YouTube. I love that our school streams most events online so parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends can watch from out of town. The school does such a good job with the veterans day program each year. Since I didn't have to do as much running around I was able to get all the laundry done and a bunch of office work done. After the girls got home from school we played basketball in the shop and had dinner.

Becca's Class

Rachel's Class

   Tuesday Alec was better and able to go to school. I ran to Walmart and Hobby Lobby after dropping of the kids to get fabric for curtains and pillows in the camper. When I was cleaning the camper the curtains we in very bad shape. They have special clips on them to attach them to the wall. When I washed the curtains the outside decorative part fell apart, so I went and got new fabric and was able to sew it onto the lining with the clips! After picking Alec up from school I worked on sewing all the curtains.  Wednesday the kids all had school and I came home and worked out while Alec was in class. After picking Alec up I came home and finished the curtains for the camper and sewed a couple very easy envelope pillow covers for the throw pillows in the camper.  Wednesday night we went to the communion service at the church in Hershey with the CCD kids then came home for supper. 

   Thursday the kids all had school and I worked on the camper getting all the blankets and stuff ready to take it to the ranch for the weekend. That afternoon we hung up Christmas lights and stuff out front. I love putting all my Christmas stuff out. We don't ever plug the lights in until the day after Thanksgiving but I love pulling up to our house and seeing all the lights! We grilled steaks for supper that night and just enjoyed the nice weather. Friday we took the girls to school then ran to Walmart to get groceries for the weekend and a heater for the camper because as nice as it was this week it was going to get really cold for the weekend. After the girls got home from school we all packed up and headed north for our first trip in the camper. (Mike also took his pickup this time as we didn't know how we would get a deer back if he got one. Which he did so it was a good thing we had the pickup!) The kids loved being able to get up and walk around and having more space to stretch out.  We make the kids stay buckled most the time but they did find plenty of reasons to unbuckle. 

Ready to be plugged in after Thanksgiving

Alec loved this Santa head!

   Saturday was a very cold day and we just enjoyed relaxing in the camper and watching the football game at Aaron and Liza's. Liza was gone for the weekend and Mike and Aaron spent most the day driving around checking cows, waters, and they even got a nice buck for Mike. That evening Pat and Wanda came over for supper and the kids loved playing together all day. Ashyln even helped the girls get dresses fancy in her dresses and makeup!

 Sunday we packed up and headed back home. Rachel had basketball practice that evening so Mike stayed home with the little ones while I took Rachel to practice and walked with a friend while waiting.  We loved our first trip in the camper. The back bed were Mike and I stayed was a little cold so we are looking forward to another trip with the heated mattress cover on next time.