November

November was another good month.  I did not take many pictures because we didn't do a whole lot.  In fact the governor mandated another quarantine due to Covid-19.  For two weeks we couldn't really go out and do anything.  There were a lot of restrictions on Thanksgiving gatherings this year which we thought were really dumb.  Rather than having big Thanksgiving gatherings, a lot of people opted to just have their own small gathering at home.  It continues to be a really crazy year.

November began cold and we had our first snow storm of the year in the first week of November.  

Fortunately for me, the snow only lasted a day and then melted.  Since then we have not had any snow at all.  This is really weird because we are usually covered with snow from now until March.  I am not complaining though!  I do wish the mountains would get more snow though for the water levels.  We will have to see how it goes the rest of the winter.

For Thanksgiving, we headed down to St. George to spend the holiday with my family.  We were rebels and ignored the Governor's mandates.  (Well so did about everyone else traveling to St. George!)  Our Thanksgiving was smaller than usual with just us and the Hughes over for dinner.  It was still a good time and the kids loved spending time with their cousins.  Unfortunately, I did not get any pictures of our time together.

When we got home, we decided to have our own Thanksgiving dinner again.  So about a week later, we did just that.

I cooked up the turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and Jello.  I even tried out a few new recipes and made rolls and pumpkin pie from scratch!  It was all so good!

The kids are so funny, this is their favorite meal of all time.  We all ate until we were stuffed and then ate some more pie. Now we have our own leftovers to have for the rest of the week!  We love Thanksgiving.

Another awesome thing that happened this month is President Nelson gave a special broadcast to the world.  He sent the video out on YouTube and challenged everyone to flood social media with things they were grateful for.  The campaign was called #GiveThanks.  It was amazing to see the swift in the tone of social media after this.  It changed from almost constant negativity in posts to posts full of gratitude and positive messages.  I loved it!  Along with this challenge, President Nelson gave a great message on the healing power of gratitude.  He acknowledged that everyone is going through hard times and that the best prescription for getting over hard things was gratitude.  Gratitude would not take away or make you immune to hard times, but it sure makes those times easier to bear.  He then prayed publicly for the whole world.  It was so amazing and the perfect way to really get into the spirit of the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. If you want to watch it click here: https://youtu.be/i51gcWCs-Ho