Ten for Tuesday

Happy Holidays Everyone!

1. Frank and I took the kids to Arkansas with us last week for Christmas with the Scheele's. We had a smooth trip down there and left in the middle of the night after Frank's work Christmas party.

2. We went Christmas shopping on Monday and stopped off for lunch at Sonic's. It was fun just spending time together as a family. Frank and Gary went their seperate ways to shop for us girls.

3. We decorated gingerbread houses and made Christmas cookies. We made sugar cookies for the kids to decorate, sour cream twists, and chocolate covered pretzels.

4. We went swimming and I watched from the sidelines because I forgot to bring a swimsuit along. The kids had a wonderful time swimming. We took along some of Leroy's cousins who had driven down from Missouri.

5. We went Christmas caroling around Lara's neighbohood. We did a great job and enjoyed spreading the Christmas cheer. Many people were pleasantly surprised and one house even offered us money which we refused, of course we ended up denonating it to the Ronald McDonald's charity house foundation afterwards. We read the Christmas story and than headed to bed.

6. This year we had a ton of gifts since there were so many of us together. My dad made a bunch of wonderful gifts out of wood. The kids were all excited and really enjoyed their gifts this year.

7. On Christmas day we headed over to the Scheele's home for some gumbo and open up more gifts. Afterwards we headed down to Gentry to visit the animal safari.

8. We took the kids ice skating on Friday and I had to sit this one out because of my pregnancy. I had a great time video taping everyone skating with each other.

9. We made some Christmas blocks and mom and dad showed us how to do food storage. Lara is not forunate enough to live close to the bishops store house. We stopped off at Sam's club and purchased some food for her and than helped her bag it all up.

10. This year a bunch of us came down ill. I came down ill with an upper respitory infection and had to be seen by the doctor yesterday and luckily he gave me some antibiotics. I will try to go back to work tomorrow.