Nov 7 - 13

Monday, November 7 - I hate seeing this! A car flipped upside down in front of our church. I don't know how this can happen right where it's at but luckily, everyone was okay. 

Tuesday, November 8 - Another day, another dollar. I work every Tuesday at Livy & Kate and today I experienced the joy of sorting through and counting a shipment of jewelry that came in. I'm still not in love with this job but hopefully it gets better as time goes on.

Wednesday, November 9 - My poor Ricki girl hasn't felt well today. :( She had a 24-hour bug and feels much better now. I spent the evening working on my gift tags for the Christmas tag exchange. The actual exchange isn't until next week but I've been trying to get them done early so I don't have to stress last-minute. I am working on them at the kitchen table because Ricki "needed" me in the same room with her. 

Thursday, November 10 - I got the opportunity to go to the kids' school today to see their Veteran's Day Program. It was so good! So so sweet and touching! They have all the veterans in the audience stand up to be recognized and it's overwhelming the gratitude that we have for these soldiers. They truly sacrifice (or did sacrifice) so much to give us our freedoms so it touched my heart when they all stood. Thank you veterans! I am beyond thrilled to get my wedding ring back! I haven't wore it for a few years because it has been too small for my finger (it was a size 5). I finally took it in to get re-sized, figuring it would be very expensive. My dad's cousin, Susan, told me it would only be $110!! Are you kidding?!? I left it that day to be re-sized and got it back today. It is still as beautiful as the day Simon gave it to me. 

Friday, November 11 - Very last-minute, I decided I wanted to get family pictures this year. I literally schedule them a week ago and asked Kendra to help me pull together outfits. We spent about 45 minutes going through everyone's closets and finding this arrangement of clothes. I LOVE how they came together and I love this sweet family of mine! Then, tonight, we were watching the news and this came up! I won a "Sterling Said It Would" umbrella! I am so excited! Now, to figure out how I collect my new umbrella.

Saturday, November 12 - Amie and Alex got box seat tickets to Disney on Ice from their work. They were supposed to bring Eva but her other parents wouldn't allow her to leave for a few hours to go do this so they invited Ricki and I to attend instead. It was so fun! Ricki loved it and had a blast! We were in a suite so we got free food and drinks too! It was the best time ever with my sweet girl and my awesome friends! 

Okay, barf!! The last two nights I have been telling Simon that I think we have a mouse. I could hear scratching in my kitchen but I thought it was under the counter. We set traps with cheese and sticky traps and put them around the perimeter of the kitchen. We were sitting on the couch watching TV after the kids went to bed when we suddenly heard screeching. It was the darn mouse getting caught on the trap. It was in the pantry! The unfortunate thing is that they don't die on the trap so Simon had to hit it with a broom. Yuck! I am just glad he is caught and gone now! Mice gross me out SOOOOO much!

Sunday, November 13 -  We celebrated Dave's birthday tonight at Sunday dinner. Viv bought him some little pastries and muffins for dessert so we just went ahead and put a candle in that and sang to him. :) Happy birthday Dave!