We have lived in our townhome for over 4 months. We got a calling in our ward to teach the CTR 4A class. Yes, there's 2 CTR 4 classes and like 3 sunbeam classes and who knows how many others there are. Our ward is HUGE but it's mainly because of all the kids. LOTS and LOTS of kids. Babies born here and there and everywhere. It's a GREAT ward and we've loved it. I absolutely love teaching primary! We teach 7 of the cutest kids (5 girls and 2 boys). They love coloring, playing games and making things so our lesson's are usually 5 minutes and we do something fun that goes along with the lesson. They have colored us the cutest pictures that we have put on our fridge. They had the primary program in October and I enjoyed being a part of it! Hearing little kids sing is the cutest and I felt the spirit so strong during the last song, I am a Child of God. A couple of the kids in our class sang solo's/duet's and it was adorable. We're sad we won't be teaching them when the new year starts but excited to get a new class!
In September we went to Goblin Valley with our friends. I can't wait to go next year! We also hiked Little Wild Horse Canyon. We hiked the full 8 mile loop. The first 4 miles was so neat! But the last half wasn't as cool. I don't think we will hike the full loop again but at least we can say we did it once. The first night we were there, it was really uncomfortable. I told Justin we should bring an air mattress but he said that the ground would be soft enough to not need anything but our sleeping bags. WRONG... It was miserable. It was so bad we drove 45 minutes to the nearest town to buy a ridiculously priced air mattress. It was well worth it though! The next 3 nights were great!
Goblin
Little Wild Horse Canyon
Halloween wasn't the same this year. Since it was on a Monday my parents did their yearly party the Saturday before. We had our ward trunk-or-treat the same day we went to. Justin and I dressed up as Mario and Luigi and Justin's brother Jordon let us borrow his big bowser poster and we put it in our trunk. The kids loved it! We had a lot of fun. After, we went to my parents for chilli and hot dogs. The following Monday was Halloween and we went to my sister Mindy's to go trick or treating with the kids and eat taco's. My nephew Lucas who's 1 tried sneaking some more candy. It was so cute!
Justin with Eli, Chase and Lucas
The week after Halloween we had our nephew Talen sleep over. He really wanted to see Justin in his Mario costume since he didn't get to on Halloween so Justin, being the coolest uncle there is, put on his costume for T. As you can see, Talen too has his costume. He put his spider man costume over his batman so he has the muscle's. We had fun having him sleep over! He had the cutest conversation's with Justin. One I loved was this....
Tal: "Just"
Justin: "Yeah T"
Tal: "I love you"
Tal: "I love you"
Isn't that the cutest? He also did the BEST impression of the You Tube video 'Charlie bit my finger'. He cracked us up and we sure love him.
We had Thanksgiving dinner early in the month with my family since 2 of my sisters and their families were going to Texas for vacation. We had Thanksgiving with Justin's family on Thanksgiving day. Justin's grandma was here as well! His grandma hasn't been feeling very well so she is staying at his parents house. It's nice having her here for the holidays!
We finally got a Christmas tree this year and it was fun decorating our own tree for the first time! We even have a couple decorations. We got most of our Christmas shopping done on Black Friday. Tonight for family night I think we will wrap the gifts. I love Christmas! Especially when we are able to serve others. I was reading a book and loved this quote, "Charity is the Pure Love of Christ". I want to make something with the quote on it and hang it up in our home.
Our very first Christmas Tree!
Loved this quote
Made these jars to go with every Holiday!
The candy doesn't last very long when you have a husband who LOVES sugar!
The candy doesn't last very long when you have a husband who LOVES sugar!
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