Thanksgiving and Other Happenings

Our wonderful Thanksgiving meal with the missionaries.
L to R: Baby Thor, me, Elder Harmon,
Elder Humble, Sister King, Sister Kelley

I was planning on using my journal to help me fill in the parts of November that I forgot about.  You can guess how well that plan is going to work out.

Thanksgiving was absolutely wonderful.  I really liked having Hayley be in charge of the Thanksgiving food.  There was only food that I wanted to eat, and no nasty green bean leftovers that I feel bad for not eating.  Children in Africa and all that.

Our wonderful missionaries, Elders Harmon and Humble, and Sisters King and Kelley, came over to share our meal.  Elder Humble made a cheeseball, which was the first one that I've actually partaken of.  Don't worry.  We had one at Grandma's every year, but I never ate any.  #OrangeDelightFTW

Earlier that morning I decided I would hike down to the hospital fields, where we had decided in Elders' Quorum we would play football.  At 9:10 I look across an empty field of snow in 15 degree weather and see no one.  Maybe they're on the other side, I thought.  After a 5 minute trek across the frozen tundra, including some time where I thought I was in Antarctica (until I looked up and saw all the buildings), I still didn't see anybody.  Then I saw someone I thought looked like Elder Harmon.  At least he was the same height.  I couldn't see his nametag (hidden under a coat), so I awkwardly walked over, relieved when it really was them.  A total of 4 people showed up for football.  A total of 0 footballs and 1 frisbee were brought.  Thus Turkey Bowl 2014 was mildly successful.

I also have to say that I've been to Gray Thursday (Black Friday on Thanksgiving night).  JCPenney was having an awesome deal, giving away anything under $10.  Got a couple of shirts for our little family, a new pillow, a couple of other things, and spent less than $15.  I felt like an extreme couponer.

We're excited to see our families for Christmas.  And really excited for our paycheck to be increased by the department next month (finally!).

As an update, I finished the Infinite Atonement and started where I left off a year or so ago on Sherlock Holmes.  I also started a short story that will post after I'm done with it.

Another month down.