Thanksgiving weekend

We had dinner with my parents, my brother and his family, my uncle and my parent's tenants.  It was nice.  Not too big, not too small, yummy food and played games, mostly Paul and I with my brother and his girlfriend.

Paul then spent most of the rest of the weekend curling in the Seattle Cash speil.  There were 16 teams and they were the 7th place qualifiers to the playoffs and ended up making it to the championship game!  Since they had gotten in the playoffs at the low end and their first game was against a team that had been winning like crazy all weekend I figured he'd be home to rest Sunday afternoon.  But no, he was playing 3 games Sunday because his team beat that one and kept winning!  They lost by just a few points, but I was so proud of them for staging such a comeback.

In other curling news, we found out that the West coast qualifier for nationals will not be held at our local club after all due to lack of entrants.  So the team has to decide to go to Bismark, Wisconsin, or Syracus.  I'll update when I know more.

Sunday while Paul was beating the pants off some teams, the kids and I went to church.  It was so relaxing to not have a swim class before and after!  I'm so glad we only have that madness for two more weeks.  After church we headed down to my grandparents' for my grandpa's 85th birthday.  My mom made an EXCELLENT chocolate mousecake of some sort and we all visited.  My grandparents are moving 3 blocks away this week to a place that can offer more help for them.  I'm so proud of my grandma for setting up the move and feel so relieved that they will be somewhere that takes the pressure off my grandma doing so much care for my grandpa.  Valerie was super cute in her party dress (my dad has pictures, I'll have to get them and post).