December 4th

Today is December 4th.
We have had so much fun this week. Aunt Kandace, Kramer, Kasey, Kort, and Kensington all came to hang out with us last Monday the 24th of November. We went to lunch and up to see Grandma’s grave. The kids were not able to come to the funeral. They were excited to go see it. They left her a cute Christmas tree and some roses. We left for St. George Tuesday night. We got to stay with Aunt Natalie. It was lots of fun. Grandma and Papa took all the grandkids to Bear Mill (its like Build a Bear). We had such a great time. We had a great Thanksgiving too, lots of yummy food and we got to play with all our cousins. The morning of Thanksgiving all the guys went and played turkey football (Uncle Kris is an avid player every year), why the women got the feast ready. We swam in the hot tub and for those of us brave enough (Brookie, Daddy, Kramer and Uncle Nick) swam in the pool at Granma and Papa’s house. The water was a nice 64 degrees. We went to the Tuachan Theater Saturday night and saw the play “The First Christmas” rode on the train and saw Santa. We lost Grant for a few minutes, but Angie found him, yeah! Aunt Natalie and Kramer were sick, but they were troopers. We visited Santa’s work shop (that was more for the mommy’s). Daddy and Uncle Nick came to the rescue and took us back to Papa and Granma’s house to play. Thanksgiving night mommy and the aunts went to Twilight and they all really liked it. We had a fun party with my moms Uncle Bill, Aunt Janet and most of their kids and Uncle Roger at Aunt Natalie’s house; we split up into teams and decorated ginger bread houses. I think the guys get pretty competitive, it’s funny. We came home on Sunday, it took some time. There was 3 accidents and Brinlee threw up (I think she got a little car sick we had a lot of Cheetos and root beer). We were stuck in traffic so we had to pullover to the side of the road and strip her down and the car seat. She got to ride on a pillow on top over her car seat and we got to enjoy the sweet smell all the way home it was in a bag in the back. Then it was Craig’s turn to through up but traffic was going so slow mom just changed him why we drove and tried to clean up his seat. He also went number two so we got to enjoy that aroma too the rest of the way home. We left at 3pm and made it home around 9pm. Mom and Dad were just glad we weren’t in one of the accidents. Monday Brookie swallowed a penny, so mom and dad have to wait to see if it passes ugh. We decorated the house and tree on Monday too. Tuesday we went to the dentist (except Grant he goes on the 16th) and we had NO cavities. YA! Mom was very glad. Mom is in charge of the Ward Christmas party this Saturday so she has been a little crazy. This week Aunt Natalie is coming up on Thursday. Her roommate Shellie has a wedding to go to. The Cosas in our ward are blessing their baby on Sunday and Aunt Natalie served with her in YW so she came up for the blessing. Well that is it for now. Love the Stringham’s

The Tuachn

Rolling down the Hill

Gaig and Santa. None of my other kids wanted to sit on his lap.

The play

The train Ride

Tub Fun at Natalie's

Decorating Ginger Bread houses.

BEAR MILL

Miscellaneous pictures of Thanksgiving Day

Big tube fun!

Papa and Craig

Papa letting craig raid the fridge.

Brookie and Zack

Aiden taken a ride