Our November was not very exciting. I didn't take many pictures and I don't think we had a whole lot going on and I was still not feeling great. It seems like November is always kind of a boring month at our house after the fun fall stuff and Halloween and then waiting to start all the Christmas fun. I also started working on a fundraiser for a friend in November and it got a little crazy! I had a lot of fun doing it, but it took much more time than expected. Anyway - Here are a few of the random happenings from our November....
Nov 1st - Another one of Avery's lovely messes - this time with marker! she is quite the little artist and quite proud of her work.
Maybe I shouldn't make her take pictures of all her messes. I did put her in time out first, but it might be sending mixed messages!
I'm pretty sure that I have very similar pictures of both Logan and
Rylee looking the same! I think 2 is the time for messes!
Nov 3 - These two make me laugh - They are both the best of friends and worst of enemies for sure!
I love that they want to look the same.
Then it starts to turn ugly... These two fight constantly but they are still best friends at the end of the day!
Nov 3 - One of my favorite parts of this time of year is playing volleyball with my ward. We have a great time! This year wasn't nearly as fun as last year because lots of people seemed to have babies and couldn't play. Our team was much smaller. But, we still made it to region and had a great time playing there. Unfortunately, we didn't move to the next round this year, even though we were SO close! We went to dinner after and had a lot of fun! I love these ladies! Brenda, me, Alicia, Cassie, Sandy, Karen, Courtney and Barbi
Nov 5 -
Rylee tucking Avery into bed. They love to play house together.
Rylee LOVES to mother anyone who will let her. This used to work great, but sometimes Avery now wants to be the mom and it gets a little crazy! She doesn't let
Rylee boss her around much anymore, which is usually the cause for the fighting. When they are getting along though it is so cute to watch. This is one of those times where they were both having fun and were so happy playing.
November 5 - Heading to the first Aggie game of the season!!! The kids love riding the bus there. We have season tickets this year, so we will be doing this a lot!
Nov 6 - Besides changing her own clothes CONSTANTLY, Avery is always changing her babies diapers! I am going through so many diapers and wipes because she is always changing them with MY stuff! She even rolls up the diapers when she is done like they are
poopy and throws them away. She gets out the changing pad and everything. She is actually pretty good at getting the diaper on. Maybe she will be helpful when the new baby comes...
Nov 9 - My little artists at work. Logan was never much for coloring and stuff, but these two love it and are constantly coloring and cutting. They entertain themselves for a long time. I love it!
Nov 9 - Not a great picture... I actually think that
Rylee took it. But, it totally captures Avery right now.
Jammies and boots! Those are two of her biggest loves! I'm surprised that they match because that is pretty rare. There is a good chance that this is also her 3rd pair of jammies for the day because she LOVES to change them! She also loves to put shoes on and she never wants help with either one. She is totally into doing it all herself!!!
Nov 11 - At the
BYU game! It gets a little crazy at these games and we wanted to be able to ACTUALLY watch the whole game, so we left the girls with a sitter and brought Uncle Jeff instead. The game was AWESOME and we even won! I did almost get assaulted! It was a little scary! The old man behind me started screaming at me to sit down. I didn't say much too him because it is a sporting event and everyone is standing up. I might stand up a little more than the average fan, but not the whole game. Anyway, I just said something about everyone standing up and Darren said, "It IS a sporting event." The next thing I knew, some extremely red faced guy who was the old man's son had jumped over several seats and was standing right over me screaming in my face about respecting my elders! He was crazy!!! Darren left to talk to security, but they pretty much said they couldn't do anything unless he punched us or something. Then, being pregnant and hormonal, I started crying and it was SO embarrassing! Lots of people around us were yelling at the guy to apologize, but he wouldn't. People were being really nice, but I felt so dumb and like everyone was staring at me. The best part is they sit behind us for the rest of the season. Should be awesome!
Nov 15 - Logan's first Love Letter!!! He brought home this letter from Nora in his first grade class and who also lives in our neighborhood. The funny thing was he didn't seem to think anything about it. Boys don't notice anything!!! The only thing he said about it was that she spelled his name wrong.
Nov 21 -
Rylee had a cute Thanksgiving feast for preschool and they were all supposed to bring a snack to share.
Rylee chose apples and bananas. She is my healthiest eater for sure! She loves fruit. Daddy even took her to Kneader's for a date and told her to pick ANY treat, and she picked the fruit cup.
Nov 22 - Logan's class had a super cute day in their class where they presented all they learned about spiders. They had kind of a "Spider Bowl" where the kids were against the parents and the teacher asked a lot of questions about spiders. They learned SO much and really knew their stuff and beat the parents by a lot! Logan was so excited for this day for awhile. He was
totally talking trash and even feeding us false information for weeks before so we wouldn't know the answers!
After all the questions, they showed us these cool spider models that even had a web and an egg sack they made and a portfolio all about spiders. It was really fun and Logan loved it! Especially that he beat Mom and Dad!
Logan was quite proud of his Black Widow spider model and was very careful to make sure he had the right shape on his back and everything.
Nov 23 - Avery loves to change her clothes!!! She gets into multiple outfits every day. A lot of the time it is
jammies - they are her favorite! One day, I put her down for a nap and an hour later, I went in to see what she was doing and she had clothes all over in her crib and a
hoodie stuck on her head that she couldn't get on. She was screaming because it was stuck. I think she had been changing clothes the entire time and NEVER took a nap - the little stinker! This is one of the many ensembles she has come up with on her own. Such a fasionista! Do you think this look will catch on?
A mini dress, pj shorts, and a puffy vest with fur....
Nov 23 - Just hanging out watching cartoons in a fort daddy built. He is the best daddy and they love his forts!
Nov 24 - We celebrated Thanksgiving.
Nov 29 - And my belly is definitely starting to show. I attempted one of those take your own picture in the mirror things, but it didn't go too well. I need some more practice! And a clean mirror! Anyway - This is at 18 weeks. I'm pretty sure I never popped out this early before, but I guess this happens with #4. Or at least that is what I have been told.
This is not a great picture, but it captures Avery's fascination with Baby Jesus this year. Avery LOVED all our nativity sets this year and had Baby Jesus all the time. She wanted us to lift her up all the time to see Baby Jesus in our big set on top of the piano and I always found random Baby Jesus figures all over the house that she had stolen from the nativity's. And don't mind her backwards PJs. She insists on dressing herself and will not let anyone help her! She also has mismatched Pjs. She likes it that way. 
I didn't do a very good job of photographing the tree assembly! This is the only one I really took. We did get the tree out a few days earlier to decorate it and had to wait because we thought that a bunch of the lights were broken. We went and bought new ones and were taking them off the tree when we realized they weren't broken...just unplugged! Ooops!!! 
The most exciting part is putting the star on top. They were all fighting, so we decided to let Avery do it, but each of the kids passed it to her. That helped some of the arguing. A little...
Adding our star....
Our finished tree! Notice I did not have the kids dressed in special clothes for this picture.... This is real life! Yeah for Christmas!!!
