Thanksgiving Weekend

I have another reason for loving the holidays--the time off from school! I remember when I first started teaching and some of the "older" teachers counting down until the next break, and I thought, "I can't believe it, how can they say that." But now, I know what they were saying, teachers love the breaks just as much or more than the students! It is always nice to just be able to sleep in and not really have to go anywhere!

Here are some pictures of things that we did during the break:

On Wednesday, the Payson High boys basketball team was playing in a Utah County tournament being held at UVU. The drill team was invited to perform at halftime of the Payson game. The game was with American Fork and it was at 12 noon that day. Here is a picture of the girls that performed. It was a great opportunity for our team because we were able to perform on the same floor where the state drill team competition will be held. They did awesome and were able to wear their new dance costumes. My team is smaller this year because of the new high school that opened in Salem. I lost five girls to Salem. Payson has 14 girls on the team this year. Ten of them perform in our dance routine.


Thanksgiving dinner was at my parent's house in Levan. All of my extended family on my mom's side were there. I think there was about 63 people there! It was fun. There was a lot of good food and it is always fun to see everyone.

Scott helping my mom dish up the potatoes.

Scott and Amanda



Amanda, Jason, & Kaycee--
Relaxing after the big meal.




Hollie--texting and checking out her facebook.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We also worked on the piano benches. On Wednesday night, we painted them. Then on Saturday afternoon we put new pads on the legs and taped them up. We also put some silver trim on one of the benches to see how it would look. We will probably finish that up this week. The drill team has their first competition on Saturday, December 6th, so that is why we were working on them so they would be ready. The drill team uses the benches in our prop routine this year. We also have some flag/kite-like props that we pull out of the bench.

Measuring and putting the silver tape on.

The finished product!

Scott and I also went out and shopped on "Black Friday". We even did the early bird thing. It was crazy at Target. People lined up around the building on both sides! We didn't get what we went for, but we did get a rain check. We did get a few things and we met up with Scott's sisters Heidi and Debbie and went to breakfast.

Saturday we went to a movie and then on Sunday after church, we put up the tree!

What a weekend! Only three weeks until Christmas Break--I can't wait!