Still catching up. November went by quickly with Gavin playing flag football and Brooklyn and Sean playing basketball.
One weekend, Brooklyn and I had a good time together while everybody else went to a BYU football game in Virginia. Sean was around too, but busy with basketball. So we super-cleaned and organized Brooklyn’s room, hung pictures, wandered a furniture store, shopped for funny T-shirts, invited friends over to make pizza and sit in the hot tub, and watched All Creatures Great and Small together.
I visited Makayla and Karitza in California the next weekend. Makayla and I visited Grandma and Grandpa Allen’s graves in Manteca.
We also spent some time in Watsonville by the beach.
When I got home, the kids had decorated for Christmas. I cleaned up the leftover Christmas clutter before we had some of Rick’s international PhD students for Thanksgiving dinner. I don’t have a picture on my phone of our gathering, but I think Rick does.
One Saturday afternoon, Gavin spent time with the Risk game army figures. It says "Jingle Bells," above the Christmas tree.
He added on later:
I think it says, "Santa is cool," but I have forgotten and it's not easy to read.
Still, he was content working on his creation for at least thirty minutes and nobody bothered him. That's a big deal in this house.
More updates from December coming up.
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