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November

Morgan had her tenth birthday this November! She asked for pistachio cake for her birthday, so we put some candles in some pistachio muffins from Broulims. She has very grown up taste buds.






November was a pretty quiet month. I was super busy at work and devoting weekends to working on my dissertation, do there wasn’t much to report. I went to the annual National Council of Teachers of English convention in Houston, TX with three of my colleagues at BYU-Idaho. We try to go every other year and it’s something I look forward to. Along with a weeks’ worth of sessions, speakers, and authors we managed to hit a few sites in Houston. We went to NASA Space Center for a tour, ate at House of Blues, attended a Houston Rockets NBA basketball game, and went on a bike tour of the city. It’s a fun city that I would love to go back to with Kory someday.







For Thanksgiving, the kids were with their mom. Kory and I went to my parents’ house for the feast. Shawn and Jodi were there with their families as well as Aunt Linda and Kevin Shirley and his girlfriend. We enjoyed the usual food and Evan provided skeet shooting afterward for anyone who wanted to participate.

When we got the kids back, we put up the tree and got our holiday cheer on. We also went and saw the new Grinch movie and liked it!












Kory's sister Lori and her husband Mike came to town, so we met up for a few minutes at Reed's Dairy for some ice-cream.



The kids also look forward to the FHE where we all draw names and take a trip to Walmart to buy presents and then come home, wrap them, and put them under the tree. Chloe had the flu on our trip this year, so she rode in one of the motorized carts while we did our Walmart shopping.


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