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Goodbye November!

November is always a busy month. We have birthdays, Thanksgiving at church, Thanksgiving. This year it just felt like we were running around like crazy. About four days before Carlie's birthday, she had an ovarian cyst that ended with a nice little ER visit. Makena had her appointment with a neurologist for her back which ended with an epidural steroid injection that was useless, so we went back to the neurologist at the end of the month and scheduled surgery on the 12th of December (please pray). The girls helped with the beauty pageant that kicks off our town's Wings Over the Prairie Festival, Carlie had Chritsmas Open House at work (both of the latter things had days of preparation before the actual event), we had SNOW (which slows things down tremendously around here), our church Harvest Supper, packing Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes, Thanksgiving and in the middle of it all bean harvest was still happening because it rained every.other.day. Thankfully, like the month of November, it is all done.
Here her a few pictures from the end of our busy month.

Carl and Makena Faith at the Harvest Supper

Carlie and Grammy

Trey

School Day
Working hard

Tree is up with Mr. Nut standing guard

She enjoys our days out together...so so I!

Peanut enjoys playing the piano!

And that's a rap on a busy but fun month!

Much love, 
Beth










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