The Weidmans

I always like to wait until December to put up and decorate the tree. The kids love to decorate it, putting their favorite things in places they can see and reach. From year to year it never looks the same and I love it. It always looks beautiful. This year we even have a real tree skirt since Terri found it when cleaning out her Christmas stuff. It was still in the package and it's perfect for us. We love blue - like the blue Santa. Seeing Santa was different this year, sitting on a bench across from him with masks on. We had to sign up for a time and fill out a survey. I didn't know he was going to memorize what I put on there and recite it to us, like "So you're only here for a picture?" and "You don't know what you want because you wait until the last minute to choose." It's the truth, but it's the last minute before they see Santa. So by then they had decided and then he couldn't hear them very well because of the distance and masks....

The pizza dinner on Saturday night sent Weid's body into a load of pain. He said it felt like terrible gas, but also chest pain. He had an episode of this a couple months prior that went away by morning so I was hoping it would be the same. Nothing from home was doing anything to help. He asked for me to call his mom (at 11:00 pm) so I did. She said it could be the gallbladder, but wasn't positive. We left the kids at home and headed to the ER. Because of the chest pain they got him in very quickly. The pain was concentrated in the upper right part of his belly, kind of under the ribs. After the EKG's they did an ultrasound and found some gallstones. They didn't see any signs of infection so they were just trying to manage his pain to send him home and schedule the surgery at a later date. I went home in the early hours of the morning and after a little sleep and making sure the kids would be ok for church at home, I got back to the hospital at around 8 am. Stacy Nadaul...

The prophet gave a message of hope and healing to the world where he asked us to give thanks for a week and fill social media with gratitude. It's not surprising that our family is grateful for missions, Jesus, our family, and BYU (among many other things). It was fun to see what others were grateful for, and to see some students grateful for their professors. Cougar completely wore out his shoes so he went shopping with his dad for new ones that weekend and enjoyed wearing them on our Sunday walk. He also got new basketball shoes for the upcoming season, paying half from his own money. Hailey made the cutest cell project. She amazes me with her artistic talent. On Monday afternoon I got a call from the school saying Heidi was exposed to COVID and needed to quarantine until Dec. 4 (unless she tested negative after day 7 but she did NOT want to get tested). That sealed the decision to do Thanksgiving on our own at home - which ended up being a good decision since my parents tested p...