Temple Christmas Concert

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Our Thanksgiving Princess

Thanksgiving was fun, full of good food, great company, but it was also Sarah's 2nd birthday.  First we went to the Hampton Family Thanksgiving.  She learned how to blow out the candles there.  Then we went to Boyer Family Thanksgiving, where she made the most excited face I've ever seen when opening her presents. So cute.  Grandma Boyer made her a princess cake.  She said, "my cake, my pink".  And it was really cute that she kept saying "Happy Day, Happy Day"  all day long.

At my family's house, each Thanksgiving we take turns and each person tells one thing they are thankful for this year.  I have felt especially blessed this year that we have been able to provide for ourselves on one income.  Mark teared up as he said that he was thankful for such wonderful sisters.  Lisa was thankful for Luis and her job.  My Dad and Chris were both thankful for James and the choice he is making to be baptized.  Mom was thankful for such a great family.  I agree with all of them.  I have felt blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life... I have had the privilege of being acquainted with so many kind, honorable, loving people that have had a big impact on who I am and who I am trying to be.  I just feel so lucky!

James Turns 8

James told me that this year was the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!  :) The day before, we celebrated with my family.  James has been watching the TV show "Cake Boss" so we laughed when we asked him what kind of cake he wanted, and he told us he wanted a two-tier cake with fondAHnt and flames around the side.  He also reminded us that we have to "dirty ice" the cake before doing fondant.  He decorated a special cake all by himself for his birthday buddy, Grandpa.  They were so cute eating that cake together.  The next day, we spent the day doing fun stuff and then we had his birthday dinner at Grandma Boyers.  This year he asked for Mongolian barbecue style dinner.  It was sure tasty.

Aunt Megan and Uncle Robert got this for him.  Can you tell he's excited?

He got a new bike.  Hooray.

Way back when...

Chris, age 6

Chris, Age 4 1/2 (this is my favorite picture)

While going through photos, we found these pictures of Chris.  Look how adorable he was!  Hunny, I love you!

Chris is on the right with the plaid shirt.  Cutie pie!

Our School Endeavors

Due to the school district changing classes mid-year (budget stuff), we made the decision to home school.  I was really nervous about it and afraid to tell people, because EVERYONE has an opinion on homeschooling.  But I felt that due to what was happening at the school district and more importantly, to James' education in class, I had no other choice.

So we have been homeschooling the past two weeks.  It has been pretty awesome (and also tons of work).  James has been able to enroll in a foreign language and is now LOVING Spanish.  That has been most fun for both of us.  We do science projects and art projects and are keeping very, very busy!

SF Giants Parade

On Wednesday, Chris and I went to the SF Giants parade celebrating their first World Series win since 1954.  It was CRAZY.  People were everywhere, packed in like sardines.  You could go nowhere to escape the crowd.  Chris made us leave at 2:30 a.m. to be at the BART as soon as it opened at 4:00 a.m.  It was funny to see the faces of the regular commuters looking around as the BART was filling up with Giants fans.  They are used to having an empty BART train at 4:00 a.m.  We got to the Civic Center and parked ourselves waiting for the action.  We all came home smelling like marijuana.  You would have thought Prop 19 had passed the way so many people smoked it out there. We saw some chick fights... and the whole crowd was yelling, "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry".  And it did pretty much look like a Jerry Springer show.  The day was hot, and by the time the speeches were going, the crowd was getting funky, lots of B.O. nastiness.  I can't even explain the smell of the man's armpits standing in front of me - scarred me for life!

While we were sitting trying to nap in the morning time, I opened my eyes and standing in front of me was Chris' co-worker, Julia.  We were so happy to see her.

 

Look how close together people are standing.  Imagine standing like that for 3-4 hours.

Finally when the show started, it was cool.  Inspirational all the speeches.  Neat to be there, but I think watching on TV sounds good to me.

Giants are Awesome!

Tonight was quite an exciting evening... with the Giants winning the World Series and all.  It was very fun and we are looking forward to attending the parade on Wednesday in San Francisco.  Truth be told, I am a weirdo about San Francisco and hate going to any type of massive gathering or event there.  I have some very irrational fears, like all of us cheering and jumping crazily will trigger a massive earthquake or that if enough people gather together there, SF will fall off and disappear into the ocean.  LOL.. I so wish I was kidding.  Another fear - standing anywhere in the vicinity of Gavin Newsom, the mayor of SF, out of fear a stray lightning strike will hit me.  Again... so wish I was kidding.

Anyway, Chris told me that he always thought it would be cool to go to a World Series parade and since the Giants haven't won since 1954, we don't know how many opportunities in our life we will have to experience the  fun.  So, I am trying to put the fears aside to have fun with my sweetheart.  Gavin Newsom will be there.  Wish us luck.  :)

We baked this cake in honor of the Giants.  Turned out mega awesome!