BLACK FRIDAY

Today is Black Friday. Lots of stores are having huge sales. Jessica went out early this morning (4 am) to pick up a couple of things. The last couple of years we went pretty wild, but this year, since I'm still unemployed, we only bought a couple of necessities and gifts for others.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year at the Oliphant's house. We had a large Bobo-Edwards-Graham-Ho-Oliphant get-together. Twenty-three people in all. Good food, good people, good fun.

Parent-Teacher Conference

Yesterday we had our first Parent-Teacher Conference with Landon's teacher. He is doing great. She loves having him in class. His best subject is math. His biggest struggle is handwriting and paying attention to his own work. Apparently he likes to walk around and see what everyone else is working on. His favorite day is Thursday because that is PE day. His favorite lunch is on Wednesday's...PIZZA!

Happy Birthday, Josh!!

Today is my brother's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I also found out today that he and his wife are buying a house. Congratulations!

Happy Birthday, Jessica!!

I took Jessica to Olive Garden for lunch today. She got the Chicken Carbonara and I got the all-you-can-eat Soup, Salad, and Breadsticks. I tried their new Chicken and Gnocchi Soup. It was really good. Later in the afternoon we took the boys to see Kung Fu Panda. They loved it!! Parker was laughing through the whole movie.

Primary Sacrament Meeting Presentation

Our ward had the Primary Sacrament Meeting Presentation today. Gramma Sue came down from Idaho Falls (she was visiting Mary on Saturday). We also had Brandon, Jennifer, and Clark visit from Provo and Johnnie Bobo came from Salt Lake. Landon did a great job on his part. He bore his testimony about the temple.

We had a large, fun gathering for dinner. We made Poppyseed Chicken, but in the crock pot this time, not in the oven. It was DELICIOUS. And so much easier...I don't know why we didn't think of that sooner.

Flu bug

Landon was up sick numerous times on Wednesday night, so we decided not to send him to school on Thursday. Thursday afternoon two girls from his class (and also in our ward) stopped by our house, along with the mother of one of the girls, to see how he was doing. Apparently the word at school was that he had fallen down, gotten a big hole in his knee, and was at Primary Children's Hospital in surgery. Of course, that was not the case, and we assured the girls that Landon just had a stomach bug. Looking to quelch the rumor, and reassure Landon's teacher, Jessica sent an email to her explaining why Landon was not in school that day. She got a reply from Landon's teacher telling her that Landon wasn't the only one out sick that day -- in fact, 12 students were out sick on Thursday. Twelve students out of 24 in the class! Crazy!

Who's Running for President?

Landon has been talking about the election in his class at school. They taught him a little about the election process and what it means. They also taught him who was running this year. So he came home yesterday and asked me, "Daddy, who are you going to vote for? John McCain, or Okabama?" He couldn't remember/pronounce Barack Obama's name. It was so funny. Then today, we were at a friend's house for a birthday party and we were watching the election results and he got Obama's name wrong again, except this time he called him "Broken Mama." I died laughing! :)

Do you want some cake?

A couple of days ago, we were sitting at dinner discussing whether we were going to let the boys have some cake for dessert when Landon did something devious and funny. He said to Parker, "Go like this", and then shook his head like he was saying "no". So Parker copied him and started shaking his head no. When Parker was in the middle of this, Landon said to him, "Do you want some cake?" Since Parker was shaking his head, Landon then announced to me and Jessica that Parker didn't want any cake. I couldn't believe how sneaky he was! :)