A Morales Minute

The kids came home from Rexburg for Thanksgiving break. I bought tickets ahead of time to go see Moana 2. I just wanted to watch it with my kids. haha Any excuse for us to get together now that they don't all live at home.  We got to celebrate Thanksgiving this year with the Morales side. We missed Marcus, Aide, and Liandrew though. We had a wonderful thanksgiving feast and like usual, we played games and laughed like crazy.  We did some Black Friday shopping and got things shifted into Christmas mode! The kids wanted to lunch at Zip's so Bel and Chris met us there and Olivia's BFF came along too.  Makayla and Olivia. They still talk most nights now that Olivia has moved. When Olivia comes home they don't miss a beat and make sure to get together. I loved having her join us.  This little guy decided he liked Lindsey's new saucer gaming chair and made it his own. He likes sitting in a chair close to me rather than on the floor at my feet. Silly dog.   

I don't care how old he gets, I think he will always be my baby  uh puppy. 😁 I love that he likes to cuddle! He really is just so sweet. He will always seem like a puppy to me.   

Being in the Teacher's Quorum presidency, Tyler helps plan some of the activities for the young men in his group. The other night was supposed to be a movie night but nothing was planned other than that. No home to watch it in so the leaders said to bring a movie to the church and they'd vote on what to watch. Tyler wasn't looking forward to going and he said no one else was either. I told him that it was because nothing was planned. If he picked a movie, planned themed foods around it and had it at our house more boys would come and they'd be excited about it. So Tyler decided to do that. He opened our house to the event and said he'd be showing Transformers One and supplying snacks.  He set out Transformers as decorations and helped me plan the food to go with the theme.  We made signs to label the different snacks. It was a good spread and guess what....they had more boys show up than they've had at an activity in a while. Tyler was excited for the activity a...