Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving, the food, the chance to give thanks for your blessings, the chance to gather together with family and did I mention the food? Yep, I'm a fan of the holiday. We were fortunate enough to get to celebrate it twice. Our first Thanksgiving was last Saturday with Juan's family at his mom's house. We had a really nice time. His mom cooked everything and it was wonderful. Unfortunately, we forgot our camera. This happens often because our camra, while not large, travels in a large camera case that is often forgotten at home. I have hope that I will get a nice little subcompact camera for Christmas that I can carry around in my purse. That way I will always have it with me, ready for any photo taking opportunity.

Our next Thanksgiving was at my grandparents' apartment. Forgetting a camera was no problem there. Here is a nice picture of our very own paparazzi.


Here are a few of the photos they took...







We all had a good time and were super stuffed by the end of lunch. I am very thankful that we could spend our two Thanksgivings with our family. I hope everyone else had a wonderful holiday too.

Job, Christmas and Fun

Juan is getting laid off from Nokia. They are moving his job position along with several others, to a factory in Mexico. They told him the first week in November, but his last day working isn't until May. He has been working for Nokia for over 10 years and is getting a good severance package along with a nice bonus if he stays till May and helps train the person who will be doing his job, but the thought of him being without a job is fairly nerve wracking. We are saying lots of prayers and hoping that this is for the best. We are hoping he can find a job in the alliance area which would be an awsome commute. We will see what happens.

I've started sewing some Christmas presents for Jovi. I'm making her felt playfood to replace the plastic food that has slowly fallen apart over time. Making felt food is kind of time consuming as it involves a lot of hand sewing, but it's a lot of fun seeing how it all turns out. Here is what I've made so far; 4 fried eggs, 2 tortillas, a doughnut, 12 strawberries, a quesadilla and 2 cookies.

I have a lot more playfood planned, and we'll see how much I can accomplish before Christmas.

I was finally able to finish some wooden figures I've been working on for like half a year. A few of them may become stocking stuffers for the kids. The triangle block was painted by Jovi while I painted the others.



The owl in the upper right hand corner is special though, he will be my first Toy Society toy. The Toy Society was a street art project that started in Austrailia and is spreading. Check out the blog,http://www.thetoysociety.blogspot.com/. I'm still trying to figure out where to drop him, hmmmm. Near my house? Near my parent's house? Or wait till I go to downtown Dallas? What do you guys think?

Halloween, a new dress and the Temple

Jovi woke up with a fever Thursday morning. It was a major disapointment for all of us because she missed her preschool Halloween party and our church Trunk or Treat. We might have just gone anyway, but she was pretty miserable except for the 1-2 hours the tylenol was working. Fortunately it only lasted 24 hours because she woke up Halloween morning just fine. I was so glad because she has been looking forward to Halloween for the whole month of October. I told her that she could be any of her dress ups and she chose to be a princess. I had bought corbin's costume last year, before he was born. It's a duck, but the head made it too hot and so we took it off and added a magnent and he became a "chick magnent". This first picture Corbin had the silliest face.


They both had a lot of fun that night, Jovi trick or treating and Corbin watching everyone.

Saturday was a beautiful day and we went as a family to the Temple in Dallas to walk the grounds. While we were there we took some family pictures. Jovi wore a dress I had made earlier in the week. Here is the dress without her in it :).



And here are some of the temple pictures.