November 22nd

Ryker blowing on a party favor and Taylors friend Kenya

The train center piece that Kirsten made

On Friday's we always work at the LDS Employment Center serving a mission for the Church helping people to find jobs.  It has been a little slow lately.  Frank Sano our boss says that is typical of the holidays which is interesting to me.  We have a list of people in a Stake we are assigned that we work with to help them find jobs and encourage them to take advantage of the programs at the center like the Career Workshop and the Professional Networking Group.  Today our Receptionist was sick so I ended up doing that in the morning.  Larry took it over in the afternoon.  In addition to the list we have we also help people who come in the center to get signed on to the website www.ldsjobs.org so they can search for jobs that are listed there and help them to understand the parts of the website so they know how to use them.  I was able to help one person today and I think Larry had at least one maybe two.  We are planning to finish this mission on Jan. 6, 2014 and we are presently applying for a mission away from home.  Larry finished early with his stakes and so he started to fill out our mission papers that we need to submit.

Daniel Tiger Cake

Taylor had her birthday party today because the Doctor said that she needed to wait until today when Kirsten took her in on Monday and she was diagnosed with croup.  Kirsten ask us to come and help her when we got off the mission.  Daniel had called earlier in the day to see if we could keep Kallise because they were going to the production "Savior of the World" at the LDS Conference center and you had to be 8 years old to attend and Kallise is still seven until April, so we took Kallise with us to the party.  I took some pictures of the party with my phone and Larry ended up videoing a lot of it with Kirsten's camera.  I will upload some of the pictures I took.  Kirsten had downloaded some instructions on how to make the things for the cake and the decorations and she made them all herself.  Taylor had a Daniel Tiger from Mr. Rogers themed party

Kallise, Kenya, Taylor's friend Brielle, and Taylor

Myles Christiansen, Jake and Nikki's youngest turned one on November 19th so Nikki posted some pictures of him with his cake and presents that I will try to add also.

After the party we all came home and Kallise watched Disney Junior while I paced back and forth to get my exercise and Larry was on his computer.  I guess we were pretty boring Grandparents but Kallise seemed to enjoy it.  Daniel came to pick her up about 10:00 p.m.

Opening Presents

Myles with presents

Digging into the cake

Myles really liked his cake it seems!