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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.




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Dance Party

Wednesday night we met at the Amity building to teach the young men and women some dances. They asked us to come for about 30 minutes and we ended up teaching about an hour and a half. It was a blast because the kids kept asking us to teach them another dance, and they even taught us one as well. Wish we had pictures, but it ended up being a blast!

UPDATE: I will see if any of the leaders can give me some of the pics from their camera. I should have turned on the webcam on my mac the whole time.