OCTOBER-
October was a crazy month for us as months go. Vern and I both had to speak in church (this was traumatic for us), we had the primary program, the ward trunk-or-treat that the primary was in charge of and Halloween festivities.
Han Solo and Jesse
NOVEMBER-
November was an interesting month. We finally had the Perry family pictures taken with all of Vern's family. They turned out great! We also got a dog, who we named Scooby. We got Scooby from a shelter in Gilbert call Friend For Life. Many of you know, Mattie is seriously afraid of dogs, even little teeny tiny ones. I'm not sure why, but we decided to get one anyway. Mattie got used to Scooby and was crazy about him. She wouldn't leave him alone and much to our dismay would even lay on his dog bed with him. But Scooby had some problems. I took him to the vet several times in one month and on the last visit they said his prognosis didn't look good. I didn't want him to pass away at our house so we took him back to the shelter. The shelter took him to their vet and he was put to sleep. Poor Scooby. He was really a sweet dog. We went to Show Low for Thanksgiving and had a nice time with family.
DECEMBER-
Riley had his kindergarten Christmas Concert in the beginning of December. We really enjoyed it. We were able to participate in the Globe light parade this year. It was pretty awesome. Vern's dad borrowed little train cars and hooked them to my dad's Ranger. The kids had a lot of fun and won the "Holly Jolly" award. Mattie and Maddux's picture was even in the Silverbelt (the Globe newspaper).
We went to Vern's company Christmas party and it as incredible. We were all able to get a ride in a R44. Riley went with Degen and Breanna and Mattie was with me and Riley. This was the first I had ever been in helicopter. Vern has been flying for 5 years and I've never gone. It was kind of strange to me and a little unsettling. I guess if I did it enough I would get used to it? I still can't believe that Vern is flying a helicopter everyday.
Vern had had no time off for quite a while we decided to stay in Globe this year for Christmas instead of bouncing around back and forth between Mesa and Globe. It was a really nice Christmas being able to be in one place and spending time with family.
I was released from my calling, the 2nd counselor in primary. I really miss being in primary! I did get two new callings- Wolves den mother (?) and I lead the music in Relief Society. Vern also has two new callings: he teaching in Elders Quorum and is the ward employment specialist.
I have quite a few Mattie stories but I will just tell a few. I was upstairs and I heard a loud crash. I yelled down and said, "What was that?" I yelled it again. I knew everyone was okay because there was no crying or screaming. Finally Mattie answers, "It was nothing". She had dropped something off the counter.
Mattie has also developed quite a vocabulary. Her catch phrase is, "Oh no peanuts!" when something goes wrong. She does things all day long that you shake your head at and say to yourself, did she just do that? She got a doll pack -n-play for Christmas and I keep catching her in it. Yesterday she said that she had to get in it because her stuffed animal bunny was crying.
She dumped almost an entire bottle of ranch on her plate.
I am excited for 2012. It's going to be a great year. I got a small video camera for Christmas called a "bloggie". I hopefully will be putting lots of videos on the blog so look for them in near future!
