November Recap

Continuing with my catch-up on monthly recaps, here's November....

* Date-night-movie-of-the-month: Crazy. Stupid. Love. Very funny and hard to go wrong with funny-man Steve Carell. And we are big Emma Stone fans. And Ryan Gosling's not so bad to look at either. Definitely worth renting if you want a good laugh!

* Sister-movie-night-out/Father-son-movie-night-out: One of the visits down to Oregon in November, Lizzy, Sean, Ethan and I went to the movies. Lizzy and I went to see Cowboys & Aliens. It was... interesting. Glad I didn't pay full-price for the movie. Not bad, just kinda weird. Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig made it better! Maybe a one-time see.
Meanwhile, my boys were a couple theaters down watching Lion King in 3D.Ethan loved it! I don't remember if he had seen Lion King before, but I know it was his first 3D movie. Afterward, he told me that he had to "try hard not to cry when the dad died."

* Uncle Tory came HOME!!!: Tory came home from his 2-year mission to Peru on 11-11-11. We were so excited to meet him at the airport!

How excited??

'This' excited!! Ha ha!!

It was so fun to see Tory hug and visit with his family after being away. We got to spend a little bit of time with him that weekend while we were down in Oregon. And, of course, there was some Sean/Tory male-bonding at the piano! "I'm sailing on........... I'm not a stranger..." ;) Saturday's Warrior is always a favorite.

Welcome Home, Tory!!

* The Rest of our Oregon visit:

Making pancakes with Grandma Julie.

While at the airport to meet Tory, we just happened to be there while the Oregon Duck football team was leaving for the Stanford game! Lizzy got pictures with #24 Kenjon Barner, running back, and #5 Darron Thomas, quarterback.

Mr. Cutie himself (he takes after his father!) after church on Sunday.

* Breaking Dawn: I got the opportunity to see the latest, second-to-last Twilight movie with a group of friends from our ward. They rented out a living room theater at the Beaverton Cinetopia and it was fun to see opening night. Although, I was undecided if I really liked it at first. It was really weird, especially where the wolves "talk", but afterward I felt strangely compelled to see it again - I didn't, though. Well, not until this last month (February) when it got to the cheap theater. I liked it a lot better the second time.

* Thurston's State Football Play-off Game: One of the boys from our old ward that Sean used to work with in YM (and that we were also friends with the family) played a high school football game (I think it was a state play-off game) at the Jeld-Wen stadium in downtown Portland. Another perk of living up here, we were only about 20 minutes away, so we got to go to the game.

Seriously, had NO IDEA there was a sports stadium right in the middle of downtown Portland! It was SO, SO cold that night. But it was fun to watch the game and cheer Stephen on. Too bad Thurston lost. :(

* November stuff I already blogged about:
- Pre-school (here, here and here)
- Thanksgiving weekend

And that's it for November! I don't even have some random Ethan pictures to show you.
Next up, December Recap... We're getting closer to 2012 stuff, yay!! :)