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Christmas Day!

And Our Trip to Disneyland!

Our Christmas Tree

Ugly Sweater Christmas Party

We were able to attend a wonderful Christmas party
with many of our friends.
The only requirement upon attending was wearing an ugly sweater.
A prize would go to the winner of the ugliest sweater.
AND
I was the ugly sweater contest winner!
What a gem of an outfit!

A Favorite Christmas Story

The story of the Grinch
was told in snippets
down several hallways at my school.

Too bad Christmas decorations can't stay up all year right?

'Tis the Season

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
only this year his whiskers are not white.

Merry Christmas from nine-year-old Joe!

Illuminated Manuscript

For Joe's World Literature class
he had to make his own version of an illuminated manuscript.
He needed to incorporate the various things
they had discussed thus far in the class.

He did a wonderful job!
His teacher had very high expectations for this project.
However, it did not surprise me how well Joe did!

The Natural History Museum of Utah

Joe and I were able to go through the Natural History Museum of Utah.
This museum holds great setimental value for all among the Post Family.
Our Grandpa, Donald Hague, was the director of the museum when it was located on the University of Utah's campus.
We have always enjoyed going there,
and upon the announcement of a new larger museum we were all thrilled.
We went through the new museum with Grandpa Hague.
It was very neat to hear all of the behind the scenes info on the museum.

Here is the grand entrance to the museum.
The views are all amazing!

They use the space very well
and show so much more than was ever seen in the old museum.

There are so many hands on activities for everyone to enjoy!

Nathan was having a lot of fun and was pulling us from exhibit to exhibit.

Here is our Grandpa Hague and his lovely bride.
This picture was taken by Grandpa's wing of the museum!

We all had a blast!
The museum is something everyone can and did enjoy!

A Thankful Thanksgiving

This is my thankful turkey.

Each of my students got to make a thankful turkey.
We made a list of what we might be thankful for
but some of my students got more creative
and started to list things such as a toilet etc.

The writing prompt for the day was...Turkey Advertisements.
My students had to imagine they were a turkey,
and Thanksgiving was coming soon.
They really don' t want to be chosen for the dinner table.
They wrote a paragraph about why I WAS
a better choice for Thanksgiving dinner.

The student had a lot fun doing this.
This is most definitely something I will do in the years to come.

Cleaning Off The Memory Card...

It was time to clean off the memory card...we have things on it from July!
While I was looking over the 928 photos,
I found these gems!

A Minion Halloween

What a sensational Halloween it has been!

I enjoyed a fabulous day at work as a minion from Despicable Me.

All of our students loved our costumes!

Here is a picture of the Halloween craft
that some of my students did.
Each pumpkin describes parts of their personalities.

Pumpkin Carving

A Happy Harry Potter Halloween to All!

Trick or Treat!
From the King Koopa, Bowser!

A Happy Hogwarts Halloween

Our ward Halloween party was this past weekend.
Joe and I decided to rebel and be the two Hogwarts
houses no one ever remembers,
Ravenclaw and Huffelpuff.
We were not specific characters from the Harry Potter series
we wanted to be as obscure as possible.

As you can see from this fine spread,
we enjoyed cornbread with our various chilis and chowders.

We even ran into some other students from Hogwarts,
our good friends Neville and Luna,
who just happened to have the latest Quibbler with them.

Here is our group shot!
We had a fabulous time at the party
and are now looking forward to the near arrival of Halloween.

A Hunting We Will Go...

Two weeks ago we ventured into the mountains,
very early in the morning,
to go hunting.
We went with Joe's dad, an excellent guide,
and Joe's little sister, Ashley.

We met half way in Heber and
then continued the drive up the mountains.

We arrived in our desired destination a little after seven in the morning.

In the weeks before our adventure it had snowed quite a bit.
We all had to bundle up in order to stay warm as we looked for grouse.

We did see some nice does.

Joe spotted one grouse but as he quietly approached it, it flew away.
The men quickly took to their feet in search to find it,
while the girls were happy to stay warm in the car.

Although we were unsuccessful,
we all had a great time.
Plus, it was wonderful to be in the mountains and enjoy
the beautiful fall colors.

October 6

Joe's birthday was this past week!
He was able to enjoy his birthday doing
anything and everything he wanted.
I was busy all day and night with parent teacher conferences.
Once on my way home I was able to stop off for some burgers.

When I arrived home, after my second 13 hour day at school,
Joe discovered I had only brought home one burger.
So, we made due and enjoyed our halves
along with some fries and fried pickles.

We finished the night with presents and watching X-Men First Class.
We had cupcakes and cake for dessert the following night,
along with a complete birthday meal
that allowed for us both to have our own meal.
It was been great to celebrate Joe!

Also this week has been homecoming at BYU.
Joe continues to do great in all of his classes!

A Sprucing Up

My hair needed a sprucing up
and it got one.
I cut off 8 inches.
My hair takes no time at all to do.
I am loving my new do!