On Saturday, December 7th, you attended your first basketball class/camp!  It was a short, 3 hour ‘camp’/class, that we thought was going to teach you the fundamentals of basketball (dribbling, shooting, passing), but it turned out that most of the kids there had lots of previous experience playing basketball on a team or experience otherwise.  Given that you had zero experience going into this, it was a little intimidating for you, but you did really well despite that!  There was probably 100 kids there, and it was super loud.  You actually knew one girl from your gymnastics class and hung out with her most of the time.  By the end of the 3 hours you were shooting so much better and actually made a couple of shots!  I don’t think basketball is going to be your new favorite sport, but you had fun nonetheless 🙂

On Friday, December 6th, we went to your school’s annual gingerbread-house decorating party!  This is such a fun event.  They supply already made gingerbread houses, and a TON of candy, marshmallows, cereal, etc.. to help decorate them.  We usually end up eating half the candy and drink hot-chocolate while we decorate.  Most of your friends usually go, and you have so much fun being at school for something other than school 🙂  We didn’t win anything this year, but that’s ok, we just go to have fun and enjoy the evening.  I love doing things like this with you!

This year we went down to Grandma & Grandpa’s house again this year for Thanksgiving.  We stayed the entire week, from Sunday to Friday. We had a great time as usual and did a lot of fun stuff.  Playing with the animals, helping Grandma cook, playing with Grandpa in the backyard, miniature golfing, movies, going to the park, painting class, Jurupa Valley Dinosaur Museum, shopping, and of course Thanksgiving dinner itself.  Lots of good memories this year!