November

This month has been really relaxing.  It's the calm between the busyness of October and December.  

Kimball turned 18 in August, so he was eligible to vote for the first time.

Kimball got his driver's license this month!  We put his license on hold while since he was in the Netherlands for a year and we didn't want to pay for car insurance when he wouldn't be driving.  It is nice that he can now drive to work and occasionally to school.  He does miss the one-on-one time with me when I would drive him around because we have great talks together.  In NY state you don't know if you pass your test right away.  They post the results in the evening so there was no fun photo op.  We still cheered for him!

We took the Primary Valiant activity group ice skating.  My kids had a lot of fun.

Thanksgiving Break

The kids had three days off school for Thanksgiving.  They loved every minute of their break!  Kimball worked five days in a row, including a 6 1/2 hour shift on Thanksgiving.  We had a nice Thanksgiving meal.  It was great having Kimball home with us this year since he was in the Netherlands last year.  It's sad for me to think that he'll be gone next year, too.  

We went bowling in the evening on Thanksgiving.  It was a lot of fun.  I had my best game of bowling ever with a score of 144 and FIVE strikes!  

Other fun activities from our break: 

Rebecah and I went Black Friday shopping 

Joseph took Kimball, Rebecah and Lincoln to a golf simulator

Decorating for Christmas

Watching movies and 

Ten inches of snow!