Our Week (12/17 - 12/23)

 We opened presents on "Christmas Adam" this year because of our planned trip to Arizona:

Owen got to go to Spare Time with his friend Noah for his birthday:

We exchanged gifts with our friend Amanda, and Emma got her nails done:

Emma and Emily dropped in on William's and Owen's class parties:

Emma did some building while we waiting for our van to get the oil changed:

Liz got inducted into the National Junior Honor Society:

With her friend Ellie

Our Week (12/10 - 12/16)

 Lunch with Scott's friend, Larry:

We went to an Ethiopian restaurant. You have a communal plate and eat without silverware. (You scoop the food with a special flatbread called injera.) There was lamb, goat, and a bunch of veggies: carrots and green beans, chickpeas, collared greens, lentils, cabbage, and eggplant.

Owen at Spare Time with his friend Noah for his birthday:

Scott's holiday work party at Punch Bowl Social:

Horsin' around:

Somehow our Come, Follow Me study morphed into us building a human pyramid.

At the community center, where Emily is on the advisory board:

At the ward Christmas party:

Our Week (12/03 - 12/09)

 Volunteering with Brown Santa, assembling food boxes:

The Church donated 24 pallets, or 29,000 lb of food, to Brown Santa. Emma is standing in from of a pallet of green beans.

Volunteering at the school library:

Emily's birthday lunch at Longhorn Steakhouse:

Owen's artwork:

Visiting a Christmas display in Downtown Round Rock:

One of the sisters from our ward designed this Grinch-themed sugar display

Raking leaves in our yard:

Wrestling practice:

Our Week (11/26 - 12/02)

 Emily and Emma visited a friend in the hospital (the same hospital where Emma was born):

Emily and Emma volunteered in the school library:

Ice cream with Grandma and Grandpa Ellsworth:

Field trip to Inner Space Cavern: