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Thanksgiving Weekend

This is definately not in any order, but here’s what we did over the Holiday weekend.

Of course we had to get together and play Wii for a while.  

Grandma had her 70th Birthday on Saturday.  We all got together and had cake and ice cream.  It was great to see everyone together again.  Don’t ask my dad or Grandma about the Rummy games though.  You can ask Clancey or me about it though, we will tell you all about it!

What is this!?!  I don’t think i’ve seen this in a LONG time.  Mom and Mylea played Go-Fish together cause all the big kids were playing Rummy the whole time.  

We had a Christmas Party for the Ward on Saturday and Santa even came.  He looked a little familiar though…

On Thanksgiving morning we were going to get wood, but it started snowing bad when we headed up to the mountain so we headed back and split some of my wood while we watched the snow come out way.

All in all it was a great time, and we all enjoyed it.  I can’t believe that it is so close to Christmas.  We will be heading up to Colorado before we know it.

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Luna’s new favorite toy!



Luna went on a trip to Aunt Goldie’s (Dickie’s sister) with Wes earlier today and their dog has this huge ball that he was playing with. Luna was in the back of the truck and saw this other dog playing with his ball and got so excited he jumped out of the truck and wanted to join in the fun. Aunt Goldie saw all of this take place and decided that Luna needed a big ball too. So he had early Christmas too. He is so proud of his new toy and is currently sleeping with it in his bed!

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Amanda’s Early Christmas!

So I had to work today, the day after Thanksgiving! Yuck! So no black Friday shopping for me, oh well I guess we didn’t need to spend the money. It was a hard day, I had a migraine all day and finally the hospital told me to go home cause we didn’t have enough patients, I then had to go over to WalMart to get Catch Phrase, which I forgot, and to pick up some pictures for my mother in law. With my headache, I drove home. I walk into the house to it being full of family playing on the Wii, I look over in my living room and bam, there it was! Wes surprised me with a Baby Grand piano. It was originally bought in 1923 by a family here in Eagar, and Wes did some computer work for them and while he was working it became a conversation piece. They said that noone in the family played it anymore and they wanted to find a good home for it, and Wes decided our home would be the best and they agreed.

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The Pandas, at the Zoo

So for those that don’t already know, Amanda is pregnant. We just had our (when I say our, I just sat there in the chair while Amanda got violated) appoint with the baby doctor this past week, and we found out that she is 9 weeks along, and everything seems in good order. She told us that it is not twins, as she can tell by the size. Almost through with the first Trimester, so things should be pretty good for the holiday season. Fear mixed with excitement would probably be the proper emotion I am feeling at least. We won’t have an ultrasound until 20 weeks when we will be able to find out the gender and everything, so we’ll stay tuned.

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Christmas Time E-Mail Quiz Thing

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?

Wes – Wrapping for sure… Just ask my aunt desarae about the all night pickle juice wrapping extravaganza up stairs at the log house.

Amanda –

2. Real tree or Artificial?

Wes – We had a real one when I was a little kid, but had a fake one for the majority of my life.

Amanda –

3. When do you put up the tree?

Wes – Usually Thanksgiving break

Amanda –

4. When do you take the tree down?

Wes – Inbetween Christmas and New Years

Amanda –

5. Do you like eggnog?

Wes – Saw it in the store today and my mouth watered. Look forward to it every year!

Amanda –

6. Favorite gift received as a child?

Wes – The memory that has stuck the most is a Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Remote Control Car that I got when I was a little kid. I don’t know what happened to it, but I looked for it ’til I was like 10.

Amanda –

7. Hardest person to buy for?

Wes – I don’t know, I usually find random stuff to find most everyone.

Amanda –

8. Easiest person to buy for?

Wes – I don’t know, I usually find random stuff to find most everyone.

Amanda –

9. Do you have a nativity scene?

Wes – We had one every year growing up, and we need to find one for our house and kids now.

Amanda –

10. Mail or email Christmas cards?

Wes – Mail for sure, I even got in on that action for my mission.

Amanda –

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?

Wes – I dunno…

Amanda –

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?

Wes – The Christmas Story (Isn’t that everyones?!)

Amanda –

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?

Wes – Octoberish

Amanda –

14. Have you ever re-gifted a Christmas present?

Wes – Not a Christmas gift, but I may have regifted a Wedding gift as a Christmas gift.

Amanda –

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?

Wes – Grandma Lios’ Homemade Mashed Potatoes

Amanda –

16. Favorite Christmas song?

Wes –

Amanda –

17. Travel at Christmas or stay at home?

Wes – Christmas was always at home, and I love that.

Amanda –

18. Angel on the tree top or a star?

Wes – We had a star growing up, and I made our angel last Christmas for our apartment.

Amanda –

19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?

Wes – We always opened one at Christmas Eve that was PJs to wear that night.

Amanda –

20. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?

Wes – Pretty sure I just love this time of year…

Amanda –

21. What theme or color are you using?

Wes – uh, I’ll get back to you on that…

Amanda –

22. Favorite for Christmas dinner?

Wes – The typcial one that you see in the movies, but Hondah Casino is always nice as well.

Amanda –

23. What do you want for Christmas this year?

Wes – Not sure, Amanda and I are buying a joint gift.

Amanda –

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/ A \ | Time to Brand

We had been putting it off hoping that Clancey would come up to help, so we set a weekend to brand the cows, and Jenn and Scott came up for the weekend. It was a real good time to see them, and branding is always fun. Everyone did it, and we even had two “girls only team” cows to brand. After going to the football game we cooked smores in our backyard, and enjoyed the cold. The next morning after church Jenn and Scott took off, and it snowed that night.

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Where were you on Nov. 4th?

Super Tuesday, not to be confused wit hFat Tuesday started off normal for myself.  I headed into work at the normal time as I knew we’d go home at four to be able to vote.  Upon getting to work I saw they were having a blood drive.  I hadn’t ever donated, and the only time i’d tried to I was running a fever and they wouldn’t let me donate.  It was a cool experience, and I asked a ton of questions to them as they did it, trying to act all cool with the terms I’ve learned with Amanda.  
We headed home around four, and I meet Amanda at Blue Hills to go and vote.  It was a good feeling knowing atleast most of the issues and some of the candidates.  I only hope that President Elect Obama doesn’t get quite as hard core on his “Let’s close all the Coal-Powered Plants” as that would the the livelihood of my family and the majority of the town that I live in.