Mindy chose a "kitty litter" cake for her 12 year old birthday on Friday. Luckily we had some tootsie rolls left over from Halloween...
Here is a close up of that picture, showing that we went to Spokane on Friday and Mindy got her ears pierced. All the girls went to watch and then we did some Christmas shopping and went out to lunch. Ben stayed home with Barry and they made Christmas fudge (for Christmas presents for sisters), played the wii, and went to Zips for lunch. This picture also shows that Mindy got her last baby tooth pulled so that her last permanent tooth will come in and she can get braces on sometime next year.
Mindy rode a little kids bike all summer and to cross country practice in the fall, even though she had really outgrown it. She was really excited to get her first big kid bike for her birthday. She was also very excited that it was pink!
The weather didn't cooperate and it snowed on Mindy's birthday, but she rode her bike in the snow. So did her siblings. Speaking of snowing on her birthday. That meant that Maddy drove home from Spokane during that snowstorm. Her first chance of driving in the snow. She did really well. We passed two cars that had slid off the side of the road. We were just taking it very slowly, which wasn't too hard when all the other cars on the highway weren't going faster than 35 mph.
We hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our house this year. Alan and Amber and their 2 children joined us from California and we had a wonderful time.
Lots of food, lots of fun!
We hiked in the forest to cut down our tree. The weather was cold but the Olsen's went on many hikes with us, which always ended in Elaine playing on the swings.
We had a hard time letting Alan and Amber take Elaine and Ethan home. They are adorable children and it was fun to have a baby around to play with. Ben doted on Elaine, which made Marianne incredibly jealous. Elaine would do fist bump with Barry every time she saw him. Every time she saw me she would hold up 2 fingers because one time I asked her, "How ARE you? and she thought I was asking, How OLD are you?" Too cute. For FHE we were playing upset the fruit basket and Amber told Elaine to go to Uncle Barry's seat and when he got up to change seats she followed him instead of Amber. Hopefully she will remember all of us when we see them at the family reunion in August.
The activity days had a daddy daughter dinner dance. Barry went with three dates (it was Mindy's last activity before she turned 12). This is Mackensey and Barry before they left for the church. Now we have two girls in YW, two girls in Activity Days, and in Jan we will have two children in Jr. Primary. My children are growing up.
Have a great week!
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