The Beal/Cannon Family: Weekly Update

On Monday we fed the sister missionaries. It's kind of fun to have sister missionaries in our ward. I've never been around sister missionaries much. They shared a thought and we counted that for our FHE lesson and then we loaded up in the car and delivered goodies to the kids' primary teachers. After that we went and looked at Christmas lights. It was fun.

On Wednesday our neighbor Connie came over for dinner. I have been wanting to invite her over forever and I finally got bold enough and asked her. She had brought us some Christmas goodies on Monday and I thanked her and asked her if she would join us for dinner. She came over and we had a great time talking and getting to know her better. She was married to an alcoholic and divorced him after 38 years. Crazy. I figure I need a relationship with her if I'm ever going to get comfortable enough to invite her to church or something. Anyway whatever happens she's a great neighbor and I'm glad we did that.

Not much else happened this week. The girls, especially Gabby had bad coughs all week so they were home bound. I think they are definitely ready for some excitement in their lives. They were wild at church today and I think that's part of the reason why.

Tonight we took treats to a few neighbors on our cul-de-sac and to Scott's home teaching families. I normally take treats to other friends in the ward but I wasn't up to that this year. We also tried to go look at Christmas lights but it was a bit of a bust.

A few funny kid things. Corbin may have his first crush. I can't be sure but he did ask to give two candy cane grams to the same girl. Dropping Corbin off to school is one of my favorite things (not because I want to get rid of him) but because when he waves good bye and skips off to his class, it is so adorable. It melts my heart. I love Kindergartners.

Today Gabby and Piper's nursery teacher brought them treats and Gabby said, "they gived me mosquitoes" me: "you mean skittles" Gabby: "oh ya, I'm funny."

Piper continues to be a funny, loud monster. She likes to scream everything with excitement with her arms outstretched while she jumps. "go see Christmas lights!" for example while doing the before mentioned actions. When I asked Piper if she wanted to go read a book she said, "no thanks mom." When I was trying to teach Gabby and Piper the days of the week I said "Tuesday, Piper say Tuesday" Piper: "um, no." It was funny.
Piper: "Mom...Nana, Papa's house? Ready to go."
We went bowling a couple weeks ago and Piper was obsessed with talking about it.Piper: "Guess what? Go bowling, right now."

Ryan continues to be the cutest most laid back baby in all the land. He slept through the night once this week. He's getting close, he slept 7 hours straight last night. I'm thinking after Christmas break when life returns more to normal, he will probably start sleeping through the night every night. We will see.

Everyone have a Merry Christmas this week!

I made cupcakes for Corbin's birthday at school this week. His birthday is during Christmas break but he still got to have a treat to share last week. These are robots...right? or aliens. Either way you know Kindergartners were impressed and that's all that matters.