Activity #12

On Friday we went to a Christmas party at Scott and Mary's house. Everyone was supposed to dress up in a way that "screamed" Christmas to them. Unfortunately, my stupid camera died on me, so I have no pictures. I am waiting for some pictures to be emailed to us and then I will get them on here. There were some great costumes, good food and lots of fun. Thanks guys!

Activity #11

Destrie has been a bit of a challenge lately. Yesterday, I resorted to telling him that he needs to be good because Santa is watching. (I know, I know- I shouldn't say that and I hate it when other people do.) But, I did it. Anyway, he says back to me, "That's not true." I responded back with a "Yes it is, and there is even a song about it." So, I sang him Santa Claus is Coming to Town. We sang it over and over so he could learn it. I really doubt playing the "be good because Santa is watching " card will work. I guess we will see!

Merry Christmas to Me

When I went out to set up for preschool for this morning, I found out that there was no water. I turned on the tap in the bathroom and nothing came out. I went home and told Kile, "We may have a problem." And we did. Obviously the water line was frozen somewhere. Kile set up a heat lamp before he went to work. I checked during preschool, hoping the line had unfrozen- no such luck. So, I went through my work day with no running water (the toilet wouldn't flush either), thankfully that was not a problem.

Anyway, long story short, Kile spent several hours after work tonight thawing out the line- with help from our friend Brett Miller. Yay! It's fixed for now. So to explain the title of this post, I am so grateful for people who will take the time to help others. Thank you Kile- you are always there for me. Thank you Brett for taking time out of your busy schedule to help us.

So, no official activity today. But I know that I felt the true spirit of Christmas as others reached out to help me.

Activity #9

Today's activity was not actually a true Christmas activity.
What you could call it is a Christmas de-stressor (is that even a word?) activity. We enjoyed a lovely meal at Texas Roadhouse with our friends. Pulled pork dinner for me and steak and ribs for Kile, and plenty of leftovers for tomorrow. Yum. It was fun to take a break, chat, and enjoy some good food.
Actually there was something truly Christmas related that happened tonight. I was able to get presents for 2 people on my Christmas list. Two lucky families will be receiving some Texas Roadhouse "Yum" for Christmas!

A Failed Attempt/Preston is Lame

Tonight we headed out to do Christmas Activity #8. Every year we go to Preston to see the Christmas lights. There is a house there that we have been going to for several years. You may have seen it. It's at the Hollingsworth farm. They have amazing lights and several cute scenes featuring various Disney characters. Well, this year they didn't put up all their decorations. They had lights but none of the scenes. Major bummer. To try and salvage our night of looking at Christmas lights, we headed to the Preston city park area where they usually have some cute Christmas displays. But this year, no - nothing but darkness. We headed to Arctic Circle to get brown toppers for the kids and that was that. Now I will have to try to talk Kile into going to Willard to see their light show. I think that perhaps I will check in advance this time to make sure there is actually something to see.

Activity #7

Tonight, we wrapped Christmas Presents.
Destrie is really excited and asked if he could open his present today.
Waiting until Christmas Eve is going to be hard for him.

Activity #6

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!!

Each year we draw names in our family. I am happy to say that tonight everyone found and bought a present for the person they have this year.

Kile buys for Madee
Jen buys for Destrie
Kiley buys for Jen
Madee buys for Kile
Destrie buys for Kiley

Yay! So glad to have that done. One more thing I can cross off my list.