Levi at the family visit day at dance class.

Forever November...

November is only half way over. I've done so many things I feel like I've gone through 2 1/2 Novembers! Below is a condensed version of this month...

Here is one of our "homeschooling moments." After I cut open this squash we found a load of sprouted seeds, the girls were quite excited (and grossed out) and spent the morning talking about our wonderful find.

Derren had a how-to-start a dental business course in Denver on the 7th, so the girls, Levi and I came along to see our family. We spent the first night taking Alyssa to the Emergency Room for a sprained arm.

We spent the next night helping Josalyn get over the flu.

Luckily we were still able to have some fun while we were in town. We went to the Denver Museum of Natural History (where we saw the dinasours "ROAR!!!")

followed by a night at Dave and Busters with Grandpa and Aunt Jackie.

While at the museum, we saw an exhibit about the evolution of man. Grandpa told Alyssa, "See man came from the monkeys." Alyssa said, "Maybe the men did, because they got all the hair." Ha, ha, ha! Good one Alyssa!

We also celebrated Derren's 34th (yes, he really is that old) birthday with a fantastic breakfast (made by Anne and Katey), and pumpkin pie with Elvis and Anne.

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I had my share of the dental excitement last week. Derren had an emergency call and couldn't reach either of his assistants, so I got to sub in for them. It was hard because Derren had to do a root canal on a four year old. I wanted to hug the little guy the whole time. Poor thing!

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Since I have so much time to spare (right!) I decided to volunteer to help at the Girl Scouting overnight lock-in last weekend.

The girls enjoyed a night of pizza, donuts, cake, singing (in the talent show), and roller skating. Katey and Alyssa were some of the all-night survivors! I have to admit, even though I no longer enjoy staying up all night, it was fun doing it with the girls.

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Since we were all so well rested (wink) the girls and I had Girls Night Out and went to watch the ballet the following night.

I'll be posting again soon. We're going to Utah this Thurs. to see family and then Grandpa and Jackie will be visiting us for Thanksgiving. I'm sure we'll have some fun photos to share.

Have a yummy food filled Thanksgiving!!!!