Aerobic Exercise over the Holidays

126. Being Home for Christmas. We were all there. All of us. And we laughed and laughed. We stayed up late talking. We stayed up late doing Christmas. We stayed up late and had sibling pow-wows, and the next day we stayed up late and cleaned out the basement, and the next day we stayed up late and got ready to leave and watched a movie. And every night we laughed. I love laughing with my family. We tried to get in as much as possible. More about the trip and Christmas pictures later.

Great Events - Crummy pictures

Some of these pictures are terrible. On purpose. Because I'm trying to give a flavor of what happened, and preserve other people's privacy on the web. Sorry. But that's how the tortilla rolls. I'll email or link you up with better pictures if you want them.

121. Happiness is... Today in junior primary the bishopric message was about what makes us happy, and what can bring us long term happiness. The children were asked, "What makes you happy?" The S-Train mentioned his spy club. And one little girl said, "like when Santa brings me a pony." Oh, yes, Virginia, oh yes. Just like that.

122. Thanksgiving with the group. We had a great time with the extended family for Thanksgiving. We got a great new family picture. Determination will get you everywhere.


You aren't convinced this is the final picture? You're right. The final picture does show everyone, I promise. This was just for fun.

Risk, Scrabble, and puzzles competed for attention with the biggest, baddest lego sets you've ever seen. Courtesy of Uncle J. Who loved spoiling his nieces and nephews (Other lego sets will forever seem tame.) and who put on the best wienie roast you've ever seen.

The men took the group target shooting. Uncle J saved a lot of two liter bottles for target practice. The girls painted their toenails. A quilt was tied for grandma.

And we engaged in a little black Friday excursion. We had a talent show. And the Christmas gift exchange finished early, because everyone wanted to see their presents opened. It was very sweet seeing the cousins getting to know each other again. And a good time was had by all.

123. Coming home to beautiful new windows. They look like they've always been there. They are beautiful!

124. The Spy Club lives. Meanwhile this last week, we've had some other exciting moments. Probably most notably the spy club birthday party. We got crazy with yarn laser beams in the basement, and made spy gear (decoders) and got our spy badges (thanks to a busy child on the computer.) Great fun!
125. Pictures framed. With a little paint, an old curtain panel that was taking up space, and some pictures photo shopped and then printed on card stock - Voila! My next cool project done.
Love it! It was so successful that I think I'll write a decorator blog. I'll have one entry.

120. I finished nanowrimo. A massive push to get 18,000 words written in 2 days. I may only cut about half of them.