Are You Listening?

It's November--are you listening to Christmas music yet? I am!! My girls are!(Brian's not!) We kicked off the music mania by downloading one of our favorite Christmas CD--Stevie Wonder's Someday At Christmas (Brian was excited about that). It's been a favorite for a long time. Years (and years) ago, my mom and I would shop for me at the Esprit store at Biltmore Fashion Park. One time we were there, they were playing that CD and loved it. We asked what it was and went and got it. We've been listening ever since! Check it out. So that CD along with others have been playing in the car and in the house! I love it!!

Friday and Saturday Brian was gone at a fall regional meeting for work, so it was a girls weekend. Friday Eliza and Libby went to school and that evening I took pictures of a good friend and her family. How cute are they?!



Then we came home, had scrambled eggs for dinner and went to bed. I was up early Saturday morning getting ready to go to the youth conference. My babysitter's mom was nice enough to drop her off so I wouldn't have to load everyone up. So I went to that in the morning and got to hear Larry Chesley speak. Ah-ma-zing. ...all he has been through is just crazy! He was a POW in Vietnam for 7 years! Plus he has been through so much more! When my brother received his eagle scout award, they had him come present it to him. But I had never heard him speak before. After his long talk, we colored some pictures for books that will be donate to the humanitarian efforts.

After that, Brian came home and we picked his car up from the mechanic and getting the oil changed. He went to his parents while I did a few errands, then I went to the church to set up for the open house for our new church building. The YW president from Lake Pleasant Ward and I set up the YW room with big flags in the 7 YW value colors, and we set up a couple of tables with various items related to YW. It looked nice and so did all the other displays. But NO ONE came!!!! Well--one family from our ward came, but that is it!!!! That's not what we expected, but oh well! We were prepared. After the open house we went to dinner with our Bishop and his wife. I felt like I was getting another headache, so I didn't feel like eating too much. I came home, took some medicine and went straight to bed. I felt fine this morning. Weird! This morning we went to church. Eliza gave a talk in primary and did a great job. In YW Jessie gave a great lesson about making wise choices. She had Monica Fawson sing "When All is Said and Done." Beautiful! Jessie always brings in music like that and I love it. I need to do better at that. After church we hung out together. Hattie slept for a bit. We put Ellie down but she never slept. Eliza even took a nap. At 4 I went back to the church to practice for the sacrament meeting program we are doing next Sunday. We had dinner at my brother's house after.

Here are some pictures from Eliza's field trip last week.