All Things Thanksgiving!

School shut down the week of Thanksgiving until Dec 10.  That was a little crazy trying to do school for four kids.  But we survived...One activity for Sofie and Noah was a Thanksgiving plate.  I asked Isak and Kira to help Sofie and Noah do it.  They were awesome helpers!!  Kira helped Noah and Isak helped Sofie.  I helped Noah too.  Noah struggles a lot with coloring.  We are working on it.  Isak took this picture.  

I was so proud of Noah for coloring his whole paper blue...

Kira colored the food and Noah glued the pictures on. Noah is the top one and Sofie's is the bottom picture.

Kira made this for one of the virtual art projects.

We made turkeys!  The kids loved this activity.  Little donuts with toothpicks.  Then they put fruit loops on the toothpicks.  

Here's Isak's turkey.

Sofie was so proud of hers.  

Kira's...

Noah liked doing it too.  Good practice for his fine motor skills.

And they loved eating them too.  

And Thanksgiving day went kind of like this...

Nels and I prepped the turkey.  He cleaned it and I chopped herbs and got the butter rub ready.  I made a delicious sweet potato apple side dish.  It took a long time to make, but so yummy!  The kids colored a table cloth while we worked.  

They colored so well!  I was SO glad I bought it and they took some time to do it.  

We ended up hanging it up instead of using it on the table.  We used it for our turkey hunt!   We stepped it up this year.  

Everyone loved the turkey shoot.  

They tried to hit the cups, balloons and the turkey on the picture.  

We also played minute to win it games.  One was sucking marshmallows on the end of your straw and putting into a cup.  

Another was standing up candy corn.

We accidentally cooked the turkey at the wrong temperature...325 and wondered why it was taking so long!  It was supposed to cook at 350 degrees.  Oops.  We eventually got to eat around 3:30 or so.  

Here's the man behind the turkey!  

I got my tripod out so we could all be in the picture.  :)

We all ate together.  The kids liked the Hawaiian rolls, fruit and stuffing the most.  

Then we watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

I played Rummikub with Isak.  He won!

Then we fed the kids a late dinner.  Isak tried a little pumpkin pie that I had bought just for him to try.  I don't like pumpkin pie but he really wanted to try it.  He didn't really like it either.  We enjoyed apple pie from Costco for dessert this year. 

Also, Nels made a special drink and the kids loved being involved.  It had apple cider, ginger ale and ice cream.  

Delicious!

It was a nice Thanksgiving day.

Also, we listened to Pres. Nelson's message and tried to participate in the #givethanks invitation.  I think I posted three or four times...It was so cool to see a wave of thanks on social media.  So refreshing!

Here's all the Thanksgiving art work.

Sundays in November

November 1 - 

We stayed home for church and watched Sacrament meeting via Zoom.  It was nice to be able to participate from home.  

November 8th Sunday -

10:30 for virtual church.

I made slides for the primary.  I included a video message from me, scripture story video, some Primary sing along videos and a few extra things.  I wanted to help support primary in the home.  So we did the slides for our Primary at home...

I think it turned out really well and we received positive feedback from other primary parents.  Yay!

We took a few pictures because it was nice outside!

I love this Sofie girl!

November 15 - 

It was a variation of the Primary Program today.  We asked the 11 year olds to each give a two minute talk.  They did awesome.  There was a piano medley of primary songs and then I was the concluding speaker.  It wasn't the traditional primary program but it worked for our current COVID circumstances. 
 

We took a few pictures because Nels and I matched.  :)

One of the kids took this one for us...Uhhh....Kind of a funny angle.  

Isak wanted his picture by himself...but Noah snuck in.  Haha.

Isak is holding the brain teaser puzzle.  He figured it out and then he timed how fast he could do it with his Fitbit watch.  

November 22 - Sunday

We stayed home for church because Nels was not feeling well.  

I let Noah stay in his jammies.  He was very happy about that!

Kira loves wearing hats.  I'm glad she likes the ones I crochet for her.  

Isak got a new suit.  He looks super handsome!!

Little Sofie.  She got new Minnie Mouse shoes and was SO happy about them.

I love her crinkly nose smile.

November 29 - Sunday

Isak and Kira worked on a primary activity while we got ready for church.  It was included in the primary slides...just had to print it off.  I hope other parents did it too.  It was so neat to watch Isak and Kira work on it and help them as needed.  

After church, we took some pictures at the neighborhood's cute gazebo.  

A nice couple was driving by and stopped to take our picture!  So we got a family picture.  Nels is in the shadows...but I'm still glad we have the picture.  It was COLD...the kids were happy to be done!

And that's the end of Sunday's in November.