What I want to make for Thanksgiving

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My bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the fall, one of my favorite blogs - Better Life Bags - had a 50% off sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it myself. So I logged on at the very early designated time and ordered the things I planned to order. And then, on a whim, I ordered THIS beautiful pink baby bag (I was able to pick out my own fabric combinations from her collection of patterns) - it was a definite splurge, but for some reason, I just couldn't stop myself.

I JUST LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I totally think it was worth it.  It is way roomier than my last baby bag and so delicate and beautiful. My husband has not noticed yet, so I haven't had to confess.
Yet.
BTW - she posts pics of what she sends, so that is her pic, not mine (I would never be able to get a photo to turn out that well)

The Parable of the Purse

When I heard this talk during April conference this year, I knew it was a keeper.  And so did everyone one else.  When I found this, I had to post, because I don't want to forget it.
Thank you Didi @ Relief Society
for posting this!

Birthday Ideas

Gabrielle's 16th birthday is coming up. And she wants a party.  So a party she will get. We are coming up with some ideas, so this is my virtual party planner

I thought of doing caramel apples and then I found this which I am really excited about using.  This is her photo.  Am I allowed to use it as long as I give credit?  I don't know, but it does belong to A Little Tipsy
We also have a Halloween themed recipe booklet from my mother and she found some apple cider cups that she is really stoked about serving.  These look similar: I found them on busy mommy

She also wants to do something inside a gourd.  I haven't found that in the book yet, but I will keep looking

Traintastic

This would be a great wordless wednesday pic, but as the set arrived today, I get to write. My sister in law sent this set as her boys are now over the train stage and Benjamin is in 7th heaven. 

He fell asleep next to them for his nap and for the first time in ever, he asked to go home when we were out and about this afternoon.

Not that I ever have luck with bedtime, but I am sure tonight will be a struggle.  But I guess I always have the threat of putting them away.  That is how I got him to eat dinner tonight.

Patriarchal blessing FHE

Tonight we had a great FHE - late - but great! It was late because I had an auxiliary meeting at church. There was something wrong with the satellite feed at our church building, so we were able to leave early. But when I got back, it still took us quite a while to get around to having FHE.

Benjamin was asleep again, but eventually he woke up (and I write this at 11:03 pm, he is still awake and probably will be for quite sometime)

Song - Larry - he wasn't here, so we sang "I'm so glad when Daddy Comes Home" (which is actually titled Daddy's Homecoming, but there it is)
Prayer - Benjamin (he nodded his head to what we said)
Scripture - Tre - Genesis chapter 29
Lesson - Me - I took it from a year of FHE - a lesson on patriarchal blessings. I was really excited about using this lesson. When I saw the post last week, I knew I wanted to do it. AND my mother had just brought me a copy of my patriarchal blessing, her patriarchal blessing and her mom's patriarchal blessing. Gabrielle is turning 16 this fall, so I thought it was quite appropriate for our family. I am not sure we had talked about it much, so I knew this would be a great time
Game - Gabrielle picked Uno and I won (both times - even though once I put down a wild card and said "blue" when all I had was yellow and red - at least I had a good laugh)
Snack - Peter - gee - guess maybe edible cookie dough
again
for the fourth straight time in a row that it is his turn for snack
then I tried to ask Benjamin whom he would like to have say closing prayer and he said "hide and seek"
A great FHE if you ask me!
Next week's line up is
Song - P
Prayer - D
Scripture - B
Lesson - T
Game - M
Snack - G

Today at church was wonderful - I taught the Valiant class. I have told the Pres that I would do so until a new teacher was called. I am so feeling her pain - she asked if anyone was called to primary positions today and I had to report "no". But I don't mind. Peter is in my class and it was actually quite enjoyable. We did lesson 3o in manual 7 on the atonement. It was pretty awesome. Sugardoodle led me to this awesome fill in rebus of the 3rd article of faith. I just LOVE rebuses from the friend! Their activity page is pretty awesome as well.

gotta love lds.org

Tonight's FHE

We had a great night tonight. But one thing was missing from our FHE tonight - Benjamin had fallen asleep and missed it. But this is what it looked like
Song - Benjamin - we sang "Ring around the Rosy" in his honor. Peter refused to sing so I made him sing a solo - he picked "When the Saints Come Marching In" and eventually we joined him
Prayer - Tre
Scriptures - Me - I read Genesis chapter 18
Lesson - Gabrielle had previously made me go up into the attic in the kids' hallway and find the Book of Mormon videos (since we just got another VCR player - my parents just gave me a television with one built in) and we watched Alma and the Zoramites
Game - Peter - we played rock paper scissors and Shannon won until I beat her - yeah, it was funny
Snack - Larry - he wasn't here until right at dinner time, and actually before that I was not sure when he was going to get here so I decided I would make it for him. I made Key Lime Pie and brownies (since I knew for sure Peter wouldn't eat the pie)

so next week it is:
S - L
P - B
S - T
L - M
G - G
S - P
I had better remind Peter it is his week next week for snack

Today at church it was great! Because it wasn't my month for sharing time!
But I did find something that is super useful and helped me prepare Peter's talk in sharing time (that I didn't get to watch because I was in nursery, but that is okay).
It is a pdf of small talks for the entire year that correspond to each weekly primary theme!!!! How cool is that?
I also found these sharing time cards from Latter-Day Chatter. They sure are cute - the one for this week helped me flesh out Peter's talk.
Okay, the hubs has left me and gone to bed, so I had better go as well. I have a Farmer's Market to go to tomorrow