Happy Thanksgiving! Well, not exactly. According to my clock, Thanksgiving is in exactly 5 hours, 27 minutes, and 7 seconds. It's still only Wednesday.

What are you having for Thanksgiving? Mama told me what we're having, and I'm excited, because it's all of my favorite foods. We're having turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, jello salad (which I've never tried), green beans, casserole, four different kinds of pie, and a bunch of other foods I can't remember. But what I can remember sounds really good. Sometimes we have ham too, but I guess that's more of a Christmas dinner thing.

I'm super excited for tomorrow, because our Grandpa will be here. He's visiting from Idaho for Thanksgiving. The only thing I'm not excited about (besides all the cooking and cleaning we'll be doing) is waiting, because dinner sounds really good, and we'll have to wait ALL DAY for it. The day just seems to get longer and longer and longer the more you have to wait. Maybe I'll just sleep all day so that right when I wake up it will be time for dinner. No, just kidding. That wouldn't work.

I've also been thinking, and I realized that tomorrow marks a year since we've finished our Clue movie. We made it with our cousins. We based it off of the board game, Clue. I was Peacock, Reagan was White, our cousin Erica was Scarlet, and we got some of our other cousins to play the others. It was really fun because I was the one who committed the murder (SPOILER: it was Peacock in the dining room with the poison) so I got to act all creepy and mysterious. We're all really cheesy actors and the movie itself is quite predictable, but we were very proud when we finished it because we only had 4 days to make the movie. Then we had to edit it, of course, and that process took about another 4-6 months (Reagan and I had to wait to see it because our cousins live far away). In the end, the movie was about 30-40 minutes long. Before it was edited, it was, like, two hours long! We messed up so many times. We had a lot of 'bloopers', but they didn't get put into the final product. I think I'm going to watch the movie later.

Since it's Thanksgiving, I read a talk by Dieter F. Uchdorf called 'Gratitude in Any Circumstance'. I really like it. You should read it.

I'm also really happy, because after Thanksgiving, it's Christmas! We're driving to Idaho this year (which means three long, boring, miserable days in the car) and I'm really excited, even for the drive because I think we're going to visit a lot of places.

Also, a few days ago on Sunday, November 22nd, it was Ryan's birthday. He was really excited. Mama made a chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream, and we had pizza for dinner (we got frozen pizzas the day before). It was also my friend Kinzie's birthday. She turned 13. I still have to wait a while for my birthday; it's in January. It's not really that long, but it always seems to take FOREVER.

Happy Thanksgiving!

From Olivia