- We had another fun game night with our employees. We played Trivial Pursuit, 90s edition. The boys won. Chris and I decided that we'd do much better if it had been about the years 1995-2005. We were still pretty young to remember things that happened when we were only 10 years old.
- We had the missionaries over for dinner the other night, and Sam had so much fun showing them all his cars. They were good sports and played with them. We have them over once a month, but this was the first time for this set of elders. It's too bad there are not any sisters in our area, because I would love to go teach with them!
- Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving) was the busiest day we've ever had at the bakery. Chris went in Tuesday and Wednesday at 2am to have everything ready for everyone's special orders. We just wish we could have days like that more frequently. We're preparing for a good December.
- We had a good Thanksgiving--our first as a family away from our families. We spent it with two other young families who are also away from their families. As far as dinner went, our job was easy: rolls and pies. The food was great! We played a game of Disney Seen-It (and the girls totally whipped the boys) and Sam and his friend Kaylee had fun running around all afternoon. He didn't get a nap, but he went to bed around 7pm.
- Before and after Thanksgiving dinner we were at the bakery getting ready for Black Friday. Chris didn't go to bed at all and went to start the bake at 11pm. We decided that since we are right near a mall and other big stores that we'd open early like everyone else. We pulled out all our Christmas decorations and put up new posters.
- So Chris stayed up a total of 26ish hours, and I basically got 3 hours of sleep. I stayed up with Chris till 11pm when he left for work, and then Sam woke up at 11:45pm. He used all his excuses on me: he was hungry, poopy, needed his green blanket, etc. After feeding him cheerios, reading stories, snuggling, etc. I fell asleep while he watched some cartoons on TV and then we woke up again at 3:40am (well, I woke up--Sam had been awake this whole time).
- Sam and I went to the bakery at 4am. He fell asleep in his playpen, and I went around to all the people standing in lines at Toys R Us, Target, the mall, Best Buy, etc. and passed out free cookies and hot drinks. It was kind of fun, and we think it brought some new faces into our store.
- In other news. I have accepted a new job. I am now a Leasing Consultant at our apartment complex. We weren't really looking for a new job, but this one kind of came up. This means I can't work at the bakery during our regular hours, but I'll continue to do the bookkeeping and help out with marketing and everything else. I'm sad I won't be in the store as much, but with this job we'll get a 30% discount on our rent, plus free water and sewer and medical, dental, and vision benefits. I'll start training December 9th.
- And one more thing I'm not sure I've ever mentioned, but last October Chris "volunteered" (or felt a little pressured to volunteer) to be our neighborhood association's chairman to fill up some of his "spare time". The October meeting was the first we'd ever gone to, and they happened to be choosing a new chairman, so Chris rose his hand at the last second after a very long silence. It's actually not too big of a job. He just has to plan the agenda for our monthly meetings, find guest speakers, and arrange refreshments (which is the easiest part--we just bring our leftover sweets). Any of you reading this who live in Cascade View Neighborhood, you should all come! I really do like that they have something like this. Do all cities have these and I just have never known about them? Anyway, we've met some nice people who live in our area.
