Delightful December Events

 December started out with many fun events... Neighborhood ugly sweater/white elephant party where I won 2nd place! Ward Christmas breakfast, family Grinch dinner, Chloe's Kindergarten Devotional at American Heritage...

Grayson also got a ping pong table as an early Christmas present and John goes over at least once a week to play a couple of games...

As a fun date night, John and I went downtown SL for dinner at Blue Iguana, window displays at Grand America Hotel, Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert at the Conference Center and an overnight stay at the new Asher Adams Hotel at the Gateway.

    

Even Tank had a date night with Bentley!

The weekend wrapped up with Frozen at Hale Theater with the oldest granddaughters in town and an afternoon at the Curiosity Museum and Farm with Bentley and Grayson while Caroline was with her friends...

November Nostalgia

We have THREE November birthdays and we try and celebrate either with the couple or their entire family. They can choose the place depending on who they include... Garrett brought the whole fam and chose Wingers, Grayson chose Braza Grill and Hillary didn't have much of a choice since we were in Vegas for Formula 1 and we had to eat breakfast right before soccer games so she chose Snooze (no pic).

 

Also finished attending two more Primary Sacrament Meeting Programs...

Thanksgiving was really fun and stress-free this year. We took all the Utah kids to Zootopia 2 at 9:45am Thanksgiving morning and then everyone came over for dinner at 3:30pm. Garrett smoked Tri-Tip since the majority of the family doesn't like turkey and I made a small turkey roast for those that do. Caroline made mashed potatoes and gravy, Riley made sweet potato casserole, Hailey made deviled eggs and Julia brought a fruit platter. I cooked the small turkey, made a relish tray, harvest salad and picked up Maddox rolls, raspberry butter and a chocolate cream and coconut cream pie. Easy peasy!

The next morning we drove to St. George so we could spend a couple of days with Hillary's family. John and Patrick went dirt biking and we hung out at the Children's Museum and did some e-biking, went to the St. George Temple lights and Visitor's Center where the kids got to do a fun scavenger hunt, went black friday shopping at the mall and the giving machines and ate lots of yummy food.

Formula 1 Las Vegas

 John, Garrett Andrew and Grayson from Bonneville Builders took several clients to Formula 1 in Las Vegas and I tagged along for my first ever experience! We experienced three days of events and activities and the races were exciting--especially the day it rained with the women's races. 

We were able to pop over to the Coffey kids' last soccer games on Saturday morning as well as take Hillary to breakfast to celebrate her November birthday. Fun weekend!

Saturday morning soccer in Summerlin...

John unfortunately got hijacked on the strip!! Good thing I was there to rescue him!