Jacob and Marcia

The year is finally at its end!  We celebrated by going to our friends’ party where we played vintage games like Atari.  And newer games like guitar hero.  We played with cards too.  We popped poppers.  Jacob mad crab tarts, and I made white chocolate mousse with strawberry tarts.  They were delicious.  I can’t believe [...]

Today after church we went to my mom’s for Christmas party number 1015**.  But too much Christmas makes you weird. Evidence: *I am writing this after the fact as though it is current, and pre-dating my post. As it is my site, I reserve the right to do so. **OK, that is an exaggeration, but [...]

Our friend Keri came over and reminded me why I don’t like the financial aid office or registering for classes at the university.  No one explains things to you.  If you don’t have a friend or family member who has gone through it you don’t know what you are supposed to do, or what the [...]

Karen was hired to take wedding photos for a young couple. I went as her assistant. The day started out cold but no wind**. By the time the wedding was over the wind was blowing hard***. We got some pretty good shots. I hope they are pleased with the results. I saw six brides today, [...]

The last day I have to be able to help Brittany before they move. She is a very brave woman to move with month and a half old twins. They are cute and we all took turns holding the babies and packing boxes.** FYI Jacob and I have health insurance coverage now! We applied for [...]

A day to rest, almost.  I agreed to take care of some friends’ pets.  One dog, two cats, a kitten**, and a guinea pig.  When I went over to check on the animals, I found a present for us on the table I took it home to Jacob and we opened it.  We got a [...]

We started off the day by running an errand**, and then heading over to Jacob’s parents’ house.  I think everybody was pleased with everything they got.  I got cool soup spoons.  For those who don’t know, I love spoons.  I love to eat cereal with soup spoons, and I love to eat any other creamy [...]

Jacob’s Grandma Neat came to town and brought us all really cool** sweaters.  While she was here Jacob, Jared,  Erin, and Andrew were leg wrestling.  Jared beat Jacob, so Andrew showed him how to do it by flipping Erin, and Jacob then beat Jared. Today, with the DVD project all finished, I have been finishing [...]

The choir program went well.  I think there were plenty of voices and it sounded ok, if not pretty good.  However since I was a part of the choir, I am not really allowed to say how we sounded. Also I was released as a Sunday School teacher today.  I will still teach next week, [...]

The practice went well I think, Jacob thinks so too, at least that is what he tells me.  It has been a while since I have been excited for a choir program, I like being excited for them. Karen has spent all year working on a top secret project and is in the final stages [...]

Today I babysat Aiden while I was trying to paint, I am not sure if this was a fun day since she has been testing her limits trying to see what she can be boss over.  She asked me if I would put some mayonnaise on her oatmeal.  I told her I would not do [...]

Today I did a lot of painting on the wooden gifts.  They re really cute and I like them, but next year if I attempt this kind of thing I really need to start much earlier. *I am writing this after the fact as though it is current, and pre-dating my post. As it is [...]

Today was our first meeting as the new primary presidency.  I think it will be a good group to work with.  And I love to be in charge of organizing data. I also was working on sanding for the wooden Christmas presents I am making.  I became covered in saw dust. *I am writing this [...]

This morning I was supposed to go visit teach, and when I arrived, she was gone, in fact everyone was gone, they already left for vacation.  I wonder if I already knew that and just forgot, wouldn’t surprise me.  So I went to see another friend that I have had trouble catching at home for [...]

Snow is still around, good for pictures! Though I still do not like to be cold. I offered to take some pictures for Jason, Jessie, and Aiden playing in the snow, but Aiden is the only one crazy** enough to play in it. So this morning I got some cute shots of her. This afternoon [...]

Today was an exciting day at church for us.  Jacob was released as the Elders Quorum President. So now he is only the Ward Organist and the Choir Pianist.  I was called to be the Primary Secretary,  Not yet released from teaching the 12-13 year olds Sunday School class, but I am sure that will [...]

I can not believe how much snow there has been this year!!!  Sure it is pretty to look at, but when it makes your drive twice as long forget it.  It can just melt and go away for all I care. Today we** drove to St Louis to pick up Erin and Linda***.  Linda was [...]

Our Frisbie friends are moving.  So I have been collecting boxes from our basement to give them to help them pack up.  We will miss them and hope they find lots of friends in their new city. FYI  boil order is still on, we had to go buy water at the store.** *I am writing [...]

Every spare moment I have had has been going into making Christmas presents.  I enjoy it, so it is a good thing. I just am wishing I had started making them about 2 months ago so I wouldn’t feel so crunched for time.  But this evening we went over to Jacob’s parents’ house and Ally [...]

So the boil order that was issued yesterday was a result of someone putting the filter in backwards or upside down at the water treatment plant.  Can we say “job opening?”  Anydangways, the boil order will be continuing for a few more days. *I am writing this after the fact as though it is current, [...]

Last night I was called and asked if I would be able to sub if one of the teachers wouldn’t be able to make it in town because of the weather, and I said I could.  However because of the weather the preschool was canceled for the day.  So, relaxing day of making Christmas presents [...]

We were planning on doing our Christmas shopping tomorrow, but then we looked at the weather forecast and decided that today would be much better for the trip.  So we went to town**.  We got almost all the shopping done, and I think we even came in under our self-imposed budget.  Yay us!  The bad [...]

Tonight we net over to Hal and Corey’s house for some entertainment.  We like food network.  A lady from Macomb that I met a month or two ago was on Throwdown with Bobby Flay. So we had to watch it.  It was Ginger Bread Houses, and they look awesome.  We brought a key lime pie, [...]

Early this morning I got up and went to the high school to help unload and sort the band fruit sales. I did this because I was asked, not because anyone sold us fruit. Because no one did sell us fruit. It appears that the band students always forget to ask the teachers to buy [...]

Tonight was our ward/church Christmas party.  It was also a talent program.  Jacob, Annette Arnold and Megan Orton did a piano trio of We three Kings.  It was fun.  There were other good acts as well, but I am only posting this one on our site.  Enjoy, we did. *I am writing this after the [...]