It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

With the holidays approaching, things are getting busier and busier around here.  Today Dee and I taught Elder's Quorum and RS respectfully - so we won't have to do that again.  Everyone gets one time.
 We have our mission dinner Monday night, our FM Thanksgiving lunch on Wednesday, and then it's Thanksgiving for real!   Plus the mission is making quilts to give in December to various people in Nauvoo.  I'm head of one of the quilt committees.  So we have to get going on that.
  I may not get another post in before Thanksgiving, so I will say Happy Thanksgiving now.
This past week the grounds crew was asked to help the conservation department decorate the homes in Nauvoo.  What fun.  The church history department approved all of the decorations for authenticity, then photos were taken to show us where to put each decoration.  Sometimes it was a scavenger hunt to find the artifacts we were to decorate, but it was fun just poking around these homes, going behind the ropes.  We weren't allowed to touch any artifacts; only the site managers can do that and the conservation people.  So here are some of my favorite decorations.

This is some of the grounds crew.  Sister Grigsby, me, Emma, Sister Archibald, and Sister Christensen.  Emma is an employee.  Sister Nelson works at Lands and Records sometimes, and Sister Dare had family in town.  It was really cold this week, so we were glad to help the Conservation Department decorate.