November 2023

Gratidude month and so much to be grateful for! November 13th I took a day off work and I worked on my gingerbread house for a week. I was trying to get it done before Savanna and McKay got here but had to work on it for a couple days after their arrival. My ten year anniversary of doing gingerbread houses from scratch, so its the biggest and best one yet. :) Three stories and room for all my beautiful miniatures. Brings me joy!

Savanna and Mckay are with us and we are happy to report that McKay found a job with a jeweler right away! He is a goldsmith apprentice at Manly Bands in Lindon. So they are goin to be sticking around which I'm very happy about! Jared is putting Savanna to work designing and conceptualizin ga slan buisness in his North Orem office building. And she makes us some great dinners which is a huge reliefe for me. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with the SChauers side of the family and are so greateful Sav and McKay were with us for that. Missing our Fiora in New Zealand and Weston in Brazil! But Fiora made an amazing thanksgiving feast for her friends out there. I'm so proud of her.

Other November happenings, I got to babysit Jesse's kids for a weekend while he wenton his 40th birthdyay trip with Kelsy, made lots of fun memories iwth my neices and nephews. I mad ea gratitude wall to help keep my spritis up during a hard week. And we got the barn 100% complete with the doors and security cameras and lights. And our horse Pearl is pregnant! So she will have a nice completed barn to have her foal in come April. It's so beautiful! Our house is looking beautiful too with all the Christmas decorations up. A sad thing that happened this month was Fiora's car got broke into in New Zealand and she had to pay a lot of money to get it running again. But we are glad she is safe and has made friends at this point and they are helping her get around. Lastly I had a work retreat at Brighton and the mountains were very beautiful up there.