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.
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I went with my friend, Gayle to Peoria. We had a fun trip. She got her ears pierced and I bought a pair of earrings that I have been looking for for a long time. I also got monkey earrings! It snowed while we were there. There hadn’t been snow on the ground when we arrived, but there was bad snow when we left.**
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**Rick was in Kewaunee-giving Ginny her ring-so we got word to him to not try driving tonight.
I figured out how to do the hats!!! They look so cool, I love them. I think everyone else at the preschool teacher party liked them too.
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I went to Galesburg today to see Ronda, G-kids and the house they are buying. I took lots of pictures of the house for them. I really like the house! I wouldn’t mind having one of my own. I love older houses. Ronda and mom helped me make some rice crispy treat balls for the party tomorrow for the preschool, so I can make a better attempt at the snowman hats, with a rice crispy ball for a snowman head.
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I was working at the preschool again today. I like being there. I really don’t have any fun preschool stories today. However, when I went to pick up my car** Taryn and Bailey came out to greet me***. They invited me in where I visited with Heather for a while. They offered to return to me the tomato juice I had left at their house many, many moons ago. So as it sat there next to me Zack**** tried hard to pick it up and carry it around. It is at least half as tall as he is and may weigh half his weight*****. He is adorable.
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**I park at my friends Heather and DC’s house and walk
***One of the reasons I like to park there
****His name is really Logan
*****Big exaggeration on my part
Today was Ally’s baptism, it was nice. David did the baptizing. It was nice for her family to come up. It was about a 3 hour drive and the weather was not so great.
This was the best smile we got from David.
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Over night and this morning there was bad freezing rain and I was unable to get my car out. I was babysitting Aiden this morning. I called and they had to bring her over here**. We played and had fun I think. We normally do. However before they brought her over I was trying to see if I could move Jacob’s car out of my way to see if I might be able to get my car out where the ground is less slick***. One foot led to another and I managed to have Jacob’s car slide into the ditch just enough that there wasn’t enough contact to get it out myself. What’s more about that, Jacob is sick. So I asked Jason and Jessie if they wouldn’t mind helping me get the car out of the ditch. We got it just out of the ditch and left it to sit till the ground thaws just enough to not slide more. In the process Jessie got covered in mud. I felt horrible about the mud and grateful for the help, and she swears it came out ok.
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**Four wheel drive
***Just a theory, which proved to be wrong
My friend Ally is getting baptized on Sunday. She had her interview in Carthage today, so I took her up so she would have company/support. We did the tour of the Carthage Jail. I know it surrounds a sad event, but there is such a spirit there. It was a good trip. I am grateful we only live half an hour away from there and an hour from Nauvoo.
When I got home we decided to make rice crispy treats and cover them with the chocolate I already had melted. We piled them up into a Christmas tree and gave it a French name to seem cool**. It was fun. Mom, Rick, Ginny, Skyler, Ronda, Gavyn, Geneva, and Gretchyn were all there too. There was a “talent” program as the main event.***
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**Jacob’s idea
***That is all I will say about that
I did dishes today for longer than I ever like doing them. I guess that means it was longer than say, 60 seconds. Anyhow, my hands get all dried out and crack and bleed in the winter. Dishes do not help my winter hands. I really need summer! Or Ecuador, I could take Ecuador, I already speak the language.
On another note, tomorrow is a Christmas party at Jacob’s uncle Kevin’s ward/church. He invited us to come and make some goodies to share. We like Kevin and we like goodies, and we like to make stuff, so this was a nice combination. We had seen in a store “Snowman Hats” for about $10/dozen. It was a sandwich cookie and a marshmallow covered in brown candy coating. Neat idea, ridiculous price. I tried to make them, with Oreos, marshmallows and chocolate. I didn’t quite get it figured out, so we decided to figure something else out tomorrow.
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Ronda called me and said they needed to “get out of this place.” So I told them to come on over. We had fun. The girls and Gavyn ran all over, climbed the stairs (and the piano). Then as the younger generation started to fall asleep, we started playing games. We decided we need to have get-togethers like this more often. The shorter folk slept on the beanbag chairs and we pulled out the futon for Matt and Ronda.
At first I was shocked that he let her climb up on the piano. Then I realized that Geneva could do anything, and he would think it adorable.
Gavyn found the drumsticks and the practice pad took then into the living room all on his own and started playing.
Both girls loved climbing the stairs.
Gretchyn fell asleep on the kitchen floor while we were playing games.
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