November 2017 - Christmas Decorating

Putting up Christmas this year took a couple of weeks since Matt usually puts in up on Thanksgiving and the day after. I helped a bit by bringing everything upstairs and decorating the mantle and other areas of the house except for the village and the Christmas tree. Matt has always put up Christmas in our house and I do the shopping and the wrapping of the presents. 

This year, the kids were able to help even more. 

Video - Putting up the Christmas Village

11-27-2017 - Candy Cane Hunt

We went to our first Candy Cane Hunt in Herriman. It was a really cold night, but we still had fun.

Matt was working so I had my mom come with us after we had dinner. I also told Kali about it and we ended up crossing paths for about 15 minutes at the event.

11-23-2017 - Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving this year was a bit different. Matt had to work his holiday shift for the year 6pm to 6am on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, so we switched things up a bit.

We started the morning off with a neighborhood 5K. It was our first time participating in it. I can't run with my knee problems and Kara wanted to ride her scooter, so the plan was I would have Logan and Kara would ride her scooter while Matt jogged.

The plan went out the door pretty quickly with a slight incline that we had to do at the first of the race. I eventually caught up to Kara and Matt and she was already tired. So Kara also rode on the stroller with Logan and her scooter and Matt took off at a very fast jog. My only goal for the 5K was to not be the very last person since I was only planning on walking it in the first place.

I met my goal and was ahead of 3 people when we got to the finish line.

We also won some swag from the raffle.

After the 5K, we showered and headed to my mom's for dinner/lunch at 12:30pm. We ate early so Matt could go home and sleep and so Kali could join Shawn's family.

We stayed at my mom's the rest of the day and the kids had a movie night too.