Bishop Zoo: November 2018

Friday, November 30, 2018

Last week of November

GDP had another little community service performance for the kids at Grace preschool. It was such a sweet performance and the kids just loved it so much.

Cessie got a job at Chipotle this week. And as they were hiring her, they said they figured that she would be a great employee just because of her association with Eden. Because they said Eden was such a wonderful employee.
But then a couple of days later Eden quit Chipotle because she finally realized that having college classes through ACC, being a Senior in high school, and working 30 hours a week was probably too much for her. They were so sweet about her quitting and gave her a hug and told her they would love to have her back later if she ever wanted.
So far Cessie has been doing well at Chipotle. Jonah and I went to spy on her on her first day working the line. I tried to Paparazzi style get some photos of her.

And Sam lost another tooth! His third tooth. This one was a doozy to get out because the adult tooth had already halfway grown in right behind the baby tooth, making it tough to wiggle. We almost decided to just get the dentist to pull it because Sam and I had been spending a couple of weeks trying to get it wiggly enough to pull it out. We finally got it out though! And Sam handled it like a champ.

Thanksgiving Dallas Trip Part 5

The third day at Six Flags me, Eden and Andy stayed back at the house. But Steve texted me this totally candid photo of the kids as they were walking together into the park. Holding hands totally unprovoked. We thought it was so sweet!

And the kids texted me photos of their day! :)

Thanksgiving Dallas Trip Part 4

A lot of us rode the carousel together on day 2 at Six Flags.

Thanksgiving Dallas Trip Part 3

A few days we went to Six Flags in Dallas. Where they had a lot of fun Holiday activities for us, like a petting zoo with adorable animals dressed in ugly sweaters.

Our first day at Six Flags, Steve and I and the babies were a group on our own. The older kids did their own thing, like scarier rides. So I have a lot of photos of the babies.

The park had a snow hill to sled! Even though the weather all week was beautiful and certainly not cold enough for snow. Charity and Sam were soooo excited to get to be in the snow!

And they each got to drive their first cars too!

Thanksgiving Dallas Trip Part 2

We went to the Hall of Texas in Dallas. It was a really cool looking complex and buildings.

Andy has been kind of aspiring to be a model and enjoys posing for photos ;)

Thanksgiving Dallas Trip Part 1

The Monday before Thanksgiving we drove to Dallas with all the kids. We stopped at a very authentic Mexican restaurant. So authentic, the menu had just photos and no words, and none of the employees could speak a lick of English. Steve loves places like this. Best tortillas!

Hana likes to hide in photos, because she doesn't realize how gorgeous she is or something. So I had to retaliate. Here is Hana from the photo above, hidden there between the big boys.

We got an Airbnb house that was so fun and quirky. And we watched movies. One of which was a family favorite, Napoleaon Dynamite.

These fun masks were in the house. Sam, being a cat with a guitar.

Andy and Cessie (I think! Maybe it's Eden?) just laying around in the Living Room.

Becca snacking and watching a show.

Cessie doing some work on her laptop on the couch.

We also played some games of Kahoot together as a family. It was a lot of fun! Cessie made a family Kahoot game for us all to play. I won.

Eden’s Art

Eden drew this incredible picture of Sam! She just drew it from a photo on her phone of him. But I have to say, I looked at the photo and my first reaction was "I like the drawing better than the photo! Because his expression is the photo is kind of cranky." And to that Eden said with a chuckle, "Yeah, he was grumpy in the photo so I made him look nicer in the drawing." She was so humble and nonchalant about how good it was.