Here's some of what we've done this week. Mostly we have been here at home, except Adam who is only home a few minutes at a time. He's been hanging out at the gym with friends a lot.
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| At the movie Frozen. Jasmine and I had gone with Kayla and my sister in Indiana, but my car was Frozen, and the mechanic called in the middle of the movie, and I missed a lot. |
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| Christmas Eve service at church. The Pastor reads a book to the kids and talks about Christmas. |
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| Our kids. Quite a mix of clothing styles. I told everyone to wear what they would be comfortable in so they could just focus on the message. Jasmine wore Seminoles because I did. |
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| Hunter has been to church with us twice for special Christmas services. That is major for him. |
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| Crimson and Green. The perfect Christmas colors. |
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| Adam reading the Christmas story from Luke 2. Then all of us, including Hunter, opened stocking gifts, plus the kids handed out what they'd bought for others. |
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| An elf helps me put out all the gifts each year. We stack them by who they are from. |
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| Christmas morning. All the pets get their special treats. Normally we do not ever have all five pets together because Max (yellow cat) had an early traumatic experience with a large, mean yellow lab that he has never gotten over. You can see that Travis is thinking about messing with him. |
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| Adam |
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| Kayla |
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| Kaleb |
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| Jasmine |
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| Tyler |
Jessica
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| We save Grandma Sims' present until evening each year. She usually gives the kids Wii games to share. |
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| Yesterday Jasmine and I needed to get out, so we went to a popular shopping area about 45 minutes away. Today is Hunter's birthday so he'll be over later. He really loves wolves, and volunteers at a wolf preserve, so she made him a large wolf blanket and two pillows. I'll post photos of that later. |
2 comments:
We used Christmas money from relatives for us to all go see Frozen at the regular theater (our cheap theater didn't play it!)- We all loved it and thought it was so sweet. We liked how the "love" that saved the princess didn't come from a boy- but from her love for her sister.
It's at our expensive theater here. They usually go to the cheap one after a couple of months. Good story, but I hated that the bad guy got a good song.
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