Update...

Let me start off by venting just a little bit! I for one am feel bad for the Thanksgiving holiday, everyine focuses on what happens AFTER Thanksgiving and just brush off the holiday. It's all about black friday and weekend sales, putting up your Christmas tree and decorations, sometimes even before Thanksgiving comes! Don't get me started about Christmas music right after Halloween. I just have pitty for Tahnksgiving, it's like the red-headed step-child of holidays. Right in the middle of Halloween-getting all excited to trick-or-treat with your kids and the bonus of eating some of their candy, and Christmas-the family time, presents, and life long traditions. Thanksgiving has turned into people complaining about who's coming or not, all the food you have to make/bring and the hassel of getting seating arrangements. Poor Thanksgiving! So I have decided that I will give all my attention to each Holiday every year! Which for you that really know me, and know that I HATE Halloween, and hate is somewhat underrated. Once I have kids I know I will totally get into the holiday--the fun part not the gross and gory part. So to give Thanksgiving it's attention that is needed, I started listening to Christmas music, and we put up the tree and all the decorations come out on December 1st. Thank you for hearing me out.

Also this year I have become a little crafty. Julliana helped me make a stocking holder that I saw on another friends blog, check it out: http://auntielolocrafts.blogspot.com/

So this past week Tyler and I found out our assignments for student teaching! Finally! Tyler will ba at sand Ridge Junior High in Roy. He will be teaching History and English. He will do US History and Utah History, for English he will do 9th grade English. He is pretty excited!  I will be a couple blocks away at North Park Elementary. i will be teaching 5th grade for 6 weeks and ESL pull out for 6 weeks. I am really excited becasue the teacher I am working with in our ward!

Sand Ridge Junior High

North Park Elementary

Last Saturday, we got to hang out witht the buddy again! Ben came over while Troy and Julliana went to go see James. Ben is getting to be more talkative now. He counts everything. So for about 20 minutes Ben and Tyler sat on the kitchen floor eating pretzels and counting each one they ate. It was preety funny. However, once Ben counts to nineteen, everything is nineteen from then on.

Tyler doesn't really know all the words Ben actually can say, so during their pretzel time Ben turned to Tyler and said, "more!" Tyler starts yelling to me, "Lucci, Ben said more!" I replied, "Then give him more!" I've heard Ben more all the time at my sisters house so I knew it wasn't anything new. However, Be did said Tyler for the first time, actually it came out Tywer, but Tyler was very excited. Another funny thing that happened, which shows how much of a turkey Ben really is...Ben found our candy stash and so he picked out a sucker, I was unwraping it for him and I told Ben he had to say please to get the sucker. He kept repeating, "sucker, sucker, sucker" I know Ben can say please, he says it all the time. But as a kept asking him to say please he would just say sucker. Finally I gave in a nd gave him the sucker. Once he had it in his hand and licked it a little, then he said please. That little turkey!

Ben's favorite way to sit on the banana chair

Ben put the two banana chairs together,

when I went to go sit next to him in the other one he pushed me off.

I guess he just wanted to build "mega chair"

Tyler and Ben's Pretzel Time

Later that night, Tyler and I went to see the Forgotten Carols at the Dee Events center. We love the music and have the play on DVD, but tickets were cheap and the seats were great so we went and had a blast! It got us into the Christmas Spirit! Plus,Michael McLean is actually pretty funny.

Little James Update:

Little is doing great! He is out of his "condo" and out in room temperture. He is off oxygen! Which is a huge sigh of relief for my sister. He is getting milk every 3 hours, they are trying bottle feeding once a day. Little James gets tired sucking on the bottle so he hasn't finished a full feeding yet. Last I heard James was up to 3lbs 9oz. So he's growing! As my sister says, he's starting to look like a real baby instead of a old man.