Random Happenings

Last month Lance bought this old antique horse drawn funeral carriage. It is currently being stored at the warehouse and when Lance has pockets of time, he works on restoring it. I estimate it to be finished in 10 years.

I got so tired of Lance always complaining that the house is cold, especially when the boys are hot from playing and I'm hot from cooking dinner. So I gave him part of his Christmas early. These are sherpa lined socks and a sherpa lined ankle length robe. When Lance put both on he said, "I feel like I climbed into the gut of a camel!" I laughed pretty hard at that one, how does his brain think of things like that?

We attended the Glenn Miller Orchestra Christmas concert downtown, it was fantastic!

Sadly, both of Kimball's parakeets died within a week of each other. Diamond passed away suddenly in the middle of the night and when Kimball got up one morning, he was just lying on the floor not moving. We were all quite surprised. Parakeets are companion animals so we suspected that Lemonade wouldn't last without Diamond. Sure enough, about 5 days later as Kimball was getting ready for church he could tell something was off. So he held Lemonade in his hands until he passed. That was a hard day for Kimball, he literally watched as life slowly drained from his beloved pets.

Cora earned student of the month for the character trait of caring. Way to go, sis!

While Lance is away, we will play!

 

UT Craft Day

 

Every year for my birthday I always ask to go to the UT craft day at Christine's house. It doesn't always happen because of scheduling conflicts with Lance but this year it did happen!

We learned different pie crust techniques (which I used for my Thanksgiving pies this year), made gift tags, a door floral arrangement, played a bunch of games, stayed up visiting, ate delicious food, lots of shopping, got to see Scott and Sydney on their return from Hawaii, played with the kids, and helped Christine with some home decor stuff.  It was such a blast as always, Christine and Nancy always plan the best activities. The best part is just catching up with what everyone is up to and how each of the kids are doing. This year, Savannah, Halle, and Aubrey came along which was super fun. I love my family so much!

Copying Savannah's pose, lol

Helping Christine hang up pictures at midnight

One of the days was Grandparents day at the school. Mom and I were lucky enough to have lunch with the kids at school and I bought each of them a book from the book fair.

Grayson was such a good sport shopping with the Moms for hours on end.

Giving Mom a kiss under the mistletoe.

These girls made a haul!

When we all arrived at Nanyc's that morning, we realized we all made a complete rainbow.