November...In a Nut Shell

November 6th--we had a primary activity. One of my responsibilities as the First Counselor is planning our quarterly activities. Going into the 4th quarter I wanted to do something really low key. I mean, you've got Halloween in October, Thanksgiving in November, and Christmas in December. Two of those months the ward does a big party already and let's face it...those months are busy. Tiffin told me about an activity her sister-in-law did (or their primary did). It was a box car drive-in. Then, mom told me that her ward did one too and I thought it would be perfect for our last activity. The kids brought their cars, ate popcorn and watched a movie. I think it went really well.

 
This is the only picture I have from Thanksgiving. It is my mom and my cousin Dee. I'm sure they will both be thrilled knowing I put this on here. Last year I volunteered to make Thanksgiving assignments for this year. Don't ask me why, just trust that I will not do that again. It was hard. I was trying to make assignments for food for 100 people, some of whom would be driving into town that day. I was stressing about it for a long time. Then Nathan came up with the brilliant idea to just have each of my mom's brothers and sisters families make a Thanksgiving meal that would feed their family and bring it for a potluck. Clear as mud, right? Yeah, it got lost in translation explaining it to everyone, too. Once I got it all straightened out and everyone understood what was going on it went really well. We had it at the church building since there are so many of us (I think there were 87 people). We had so much food and such a huge variety it was great.

I'm sure we did lots of other fun things in November, I just can't remember. Kade frequently tells me he thinks my brain is on vacation. Maybe he is right.