Thanksgiving Activites

We had a lot of fun while Bryce was here. We went to the Children's Museum, Silver Falls, Nike Store, Shopping on Black Friday, and watched the victorious BYU game. Dallin and Bryce were usually found on a court or field playing Basketball and Football.
Daniel on a cool night watching Dad and Bryce throw the football on the field.Elizabeth was very eager for Daddy and Uncle Bryce to throw her the ball.Silver Falls

The Anderson's Thanksgining

We spent Thanksgiving at Dallin's aunts house along with Bryce who was with us for the week. Dallin and Bryce played in a wet Turkey bowl game while Elizabeth and I watched the Macy's parade through Skype. It was a great day.We made the traditional turkey cookies
I had the responsibility of making the pumpkin pies and I did my best to follow in Jeff's footsteps.

Little Bit More BYU...

Robb said he didn't get enough of the final play of the game. A little searching around the internet yielded a few clips of some of the excitement from Saturday, including the last play and the aftermath. Dad clipped, stitched, added a little music, slow-mo and live sound for a little video fun.

Little Bit More Thanksgiving

Sister Magnusson shared this with me last week, dad burned me a copy, and I shared it in my Relief Society Lesson today. I was surprised that no one had seen it - thought I might share the beautiful presentation.

Christmas Came Early

After the nail biter of a BYU - Utah game this evening and finally winning in overtime I decided to give Jason his Christmas present early!! Stay tuned tomorrow for some great church wear... we have been promising to wear our cougar getup if BYU stomped on the Utes (maybe stepped on is more fitting), which they did, so we will come through. There is a hardcore Utes family in our ward, so victory will be grand tomorrow!

BYU vs Utah

Here is old school and new school blue to help the Cougars win!! (So glad I saved this sweatshirt from the 80's)

Thanksgiving at 336

There have only been a few Thanksgivings at 336. Can anyone recall them? There was the one with Brother Bevell. I'm not sure why there wasn't one in La Canada that year. The second one was when Grandpa Hodgkinson was so sick and he wanted a little sunshine. This year the Shirl Cornwalls and the Kent Cornwalls were spread all over and so we hosted the dinner. We had a wonderful day with Grandpa, the Federoffs, the Monteros and the missionaries. Dad did turkey research (thanks Martha - for the cheesecloth method - we are going to use it every year) and we had the best looking and best tasting turkey imaginable (as evidenced by these pictures).

Jeffrey made our pies - apple and pumpkin - they were wonderful.

We had a lovely day of wonderful food and fantastic company intermixed with lots of games, visiting and laughter.

The "Children's Table" had way too much fun!!

We are so thankful for our bounteous blessings!!

?MHS 12 & 0?

For Traditions Sake

If you recall when Paisley was almost 1 month old we spent our first Thanksgiving alone. as we were getting the turkey ready we noticed that she was smaller than our turkey so we got a picture. Now as we have another baby near Thanksgiving we thought we should compare Jarom to our turkey this year. He is definitely bigger than our bird! Happy Thanksgiving!!

HAPPY...

Storing UP Thanks

We heard there may be a need for pre-Thanksgiving extra hands at the Bishop's Storehouse, so Dad, Mom, Jeffrey and Sarah went down to Soto St. this morning...

We helped some needy individuals fill their food orders.

We stocked shelves, prep'd fresh produce and helped organize the warehouse

Then Mom got the premium assignment of working in the freezer. Not a too bad of a job on an 80 degree Southern Calif. day.

We're thankful we had the opportunity...

Week of Thanks and COUGAR BLUE

Marybeth and I sat down on Monday and did our thankful turkey hands as we have done the past few years. It is a good tradition. It gives us a chance to reflect and write down some of the things that we are thankful for. Marybeth's turkeys and their environment is always top notch.
There is only one problem with doing this annual tradition. It always falls on the week of the big game. My BYU pride is always overflowing and I just can't seem to get away from it, and it always shows in my turkey hands. Last year we did it after the last game before the bowl game and lets just say it was not BYU themed then. I even included the BYU wrist ban that I have been wearing since Sunday afternoon.
I wanted to encourage/remind everyone that this is the week of, as they say in village "THE BAD COLOR." I am preaching to the choir, at least I hope so, This is the week of weeks where "The BAD color." Is not to be worn. Blue should be worn every second of everyday, but for some reason if that can not be done, just make sure it is not the color that should not be mentioned. I wanted to post that since the end of the game against Air force I have been wearing Cougar blue.

I feel a little silly, not too silly of posting pictures of just me in my Blue so I decided to try and incorporate other interesting things of note. We wanted to show off our washer and dryer that we bought a few weeks ago. Marybeth found them on craigslist and they have been perfect. The price was great and they are only a few years old.

Feel free one and all to post you in your BLUE this week.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Email Orders

It has recently come to my attention that most people probably do not have an Etsy account. So in order to reach more people and be as successful as I can be, I would love to invite anyone interested to order an I Spy Bag through my email. If you have seen an I Spy Bag on the store site (thepurseplace.etsy.com) that you would like please email me the description and I can sell it over email. If there isn't one on the site you like but would still like to order one please email me. I have a lot of really cute fabric that is in the process of becoming an I Spy Bag, they just aren't finished. I am preparing for this busy holiday shopping weekend and for Cyber Monday. If you would like to specify that the I spy bag is for a girl or boy so the choice of fabric is appropriate that would be great! Please send your email orders to purseplace.etsy at gmail.com (email broken up to discourage spammers) Also, please feel free to tell your friends, family and anyone you think would be interested!

'Pinkie' and 'Blue Boy' are two of the Huntington's most famous paintings. (Great) Grandma Cornwall loved them. It was nice to see them and be there to think of Grandma within a few days of the anniversary of her passing (Nov. 26) in 2002.

This video (not mine) shows some of the Huntington grounds and art. Click HERE.

Trip To Huntington Library

Bro. Marshall, who works at the Huntington Library, gave us four tickets. I wanted to go there anyways, so it worked out perfect that we received these tickets. It was very fun. The artwork as well as the gardens were gorgeous. Wish you could have all been there with us. Here are some shots I took:

mosquee + macdo + mystery

a typical day : after class we went into a mosque a couple metro stops away.

it's open for visitors, but only the true church-goers are allowed in the prayer room.

so i heard that macdonalds is better in france

. . . it's not.

and when we came out of the metro by the bhv, we saw flashing lights and a crowd of people, around this guy:

we didn't know who he was, but i took a picture of him anyway. he's a designer.

in case anyone is wondering, i have two weeks left. two weeks left til i'm back in the states, eating peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies, drinking american milk, speaking english on the streets, and having no qualms about not being an e.u. citizen.