survived the Holidays!?

We started out the Holidays great. My son and his newly married wife came Friday before Christmas. We had a good time at the Special Christmas Program Sunday. We had all the family but Angels family from California here to do the traditional things.( Shylynn was in the hospital)

We went Caroling at about 4 pm. It was nice weather at about 3 then it got terrible and started to snow and was quite cold. Braving the cold and wet went to about 9 houses to carol. The younger kids liked to get in the snow and as a result were getting pretty cold. Marty went and got his car for the coldest ones. We went to Sister Eunice Hansen and Cheryl Lintons daughter had her family there, the famous Hughes Brothers and their kids. We went to Sherrie Thomas. Her husband had broken his ankle. Krystal Booyack , other neighbors.ect.

We then came home and had soup and Dads famous spiced fruit drink. ,We then put the kids in costume and acted out the Nativity. Bruce and Tara were Mary and Joseph. The grandkids dressed as wisemen, shepherds , and a sheep. A fake baby dressed in swaddling clothes. It went quite well while Grandpa read. Melody still loves to be the angel as she does a good job at it.

Then we opened the family gifts. What a riot. We started so early, we were ready to go to bed by 8:30. Santa had the presents in the stockings early, thanks to a wonderful Daughter in law.

We were woke up by Tara and Bruce jumping on our bed at 6:15.am. It was so neat to have someone here for Christmas morning.! We later went to see the damage at Melodys and Martys. Wei took control of most things in their house. We then went to dinner at Melodys and Martys at 4. They had a delicious meal. Then we came home and watched tv and went to bed.

Wednesday we reported to the temple, that was sparsely attended. We had a nice time serving,

Bruce and Tara took Tayler and his girlfriend to dinner. that night. At about 3 in the morning Tara came and told us that Bruce was very sick, could we give him a blessing. This was of great concern as Angel and her family were coming Thursday. Bruce got somewhat better, but Angel decided that they better not stay in the same bed. So they stayed at Melodys among Christmas choas. I called some people in our Ward and borrowed two twin mattresses. It worked quite well and they visited us to eat lunch and such. They went with us to Thanksgiving point. Bruce and Tara were feeling somewhat better. We went To Cabellas and ended up eating at Spagetti Mamas. It was cold and I was hungry. We did like the exhibit we saw.and the kids liked the shooting gallery.