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The Snakemen of Christmas

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Well, we missed a week again, but here we are now, so that isn't too bad all things considered. The biggest thing that happened this week has been Christmas. We have been preparing for and celebrating Christmas. On Christmas day the kids woke up around 7 and we opened stockings and then presents. We spent the most of the day playing with them. Elsa made some figurines out of the modelling clay that we got, which were very good. Alison tried to get pictures of everyone with their christmas gifts, but most of the kids were having too much fun to play along. The girls are finally done acting in the Frightmare Before Christmas. They had a lot of fun, and invited their friends to see it one night with the two free tickets that they each got. Mike and Rea have succeeded in their monthly temple baptisms goal. It was difficult at times, however, they always were able to make time to do it, so they will be having a goal day party for it soon. One night we went over to the Brown's house ...
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The Figgy Pudding Incident

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Apparently we forgot that we have a blog, so we have a serious backup of unwritten weeks. In November Mike Alison and Rea all attempted NANO and meet with various degrees of success. Rea finished her goal word count and story, Mike finished his word count but not his story, and Alison got sick and didn't finish. Rea completed a story, and therefore also a goal, so we had a goal day party in November for her. Reya asked Mike to make chicken pot pie for her, and since he's eating gluten free the chicken pot pie crust ended up purple. We think it was because he added psyllium husk powder to serve as a binding agent. We celebrated Gideon's birthday. He got a very cool art set and a lot of frog things. We had a late Halloween RPG with the Wilsons. We played a small RPG called honey heist, which was rather entertaining. The story is that a bunch of crack operative bears Rob honey from a big honey convention. By the time that the game ended Mike's bear went completely feral be...
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The Silence Breaks

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 We missed three weeks this time, so I am going to try and remember the things that happened throughout pretty much all of October. One thing that we have been doing is struggling to keep up in our family "A Night in the Lonesome October" reading. We do it pretty much every year, but a chapter a night is sometimes a hard pace to keep up with.  Alison has been sick for quite a while, but she is finally feeling better. She has gotten horrible colds every winter ever since high school, but when we started masking during Covid, she stopped getting them! She's been very happy about that, but apparently it stopped working, because she got the exact same symptoms she always does. She was in bed for almost a week, and felt pretty bad for another week, but she's mostly better now. She is blaming the fact that the kids no longer wear their masks. They were quite upset with how sick she was, so maybe they will be more willing to mask again. The kids had fall break while Alison w...
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Mostly Driving

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Grandma Julie's weekend last weekend Grandma Julie came over to Utah and invited us to see a horse parade in Sandy. They had events and food trucks and the Rogers came as well. It was very fun.  At the same time Grandma Julie invited all of the kids over for a two-day sleepover. They had a fun time playing with Grandpa Craig and with the cousins, and Mike and Alison went out on a date so everyone enjoyed it. With Rea and Sara participating in a play we have been driving around a lot to get them to where they need to go. That combined with public school means that we have not been able to buy groceries for most of 2 weeks. Fortunately the Waters have been giving us large amounts of potatoes so we're okay. It's like Mike's prophecy from high school was fulfilled. We watched general conference for the last 2 days. On Saturday we did it at our own house and on Sunday we went to the Brown's house. The kids are getting much better at paying attention, so we were able to a...
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I'm Much, Much Too Busy...

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Alison and Mike celebrated their 16th anniversary this week. We were so busy that we didn't really plan anything, but Mike ended up making a not very amazing chocolate mousse, which he called a malfeasance  (Because it wasn't a tort). Rea and Sara both continued to attend their play rehearsals this week. They are practicing Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6:30 to 9:30, and Saturday mornings from 9:30 to 12:30, so it's a lot! They are having fun, though. This week, Alison took them on the bus on Tuesday, so that they could learn how to do it. We're not sure how often they'll take the bus - they have to leave at 5:15 to get there early enough to not be nervous about being late, and Rea doesn't get home until 4:30 on Thursdays, so probably only on Tuesdays. But that's one less hour Alison has to spend driving them! Elsa got an award for friendship at school this week! That's not too surprising; she tells us that everyone in her class is her friend and alwa...
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Nuts and Pokémon

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This week, Alison started going to a class at the kids' school. Parents and other adults are invited to come and do the free Science of Well-Being class that's been put online by a Yale professor. This is a topic Allison is interested in, and she's been working on getting out of her comfort zone and interacting with people, so it seemed like a good idea. The first class was fun. Rea and Sara have been going to rehearsals for their play multiple times this week. It is a pretty long drive for Alison to drop off and take them back, so she is planning on teaching them how to take the bus there. They have been enjoying the rehearsals and are excited to perform in the play. We invited to Buck and his wife over to eat dinner with us this week because they helped us so much in the process of getting back into our house. It was nice to have them over and to talk with them. Various members of our family have been getting sick on various days this last week. Seems like it's a mild...
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Stabby

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Timmy has been making good progress on the Lion Knight's Castle - he has been working on it with some help from Mike; however, he has been doing most of it himself. He is also making up a story of how each new bag that he opens was a new stage in the development of what started out as a small farmer's house. We also got a robot vacuum that is either named "Stabby" or "Sharkie" (depending on who you ask and when. Alison decided that it would be a good motivator for the kids and would help them to clean up their floors without an adult having to check them out to make sure that they are done. The idea is that they clean their floors and then, when they are done, they get the robot to sweep them, and if they do a good job, it won't bump into things all the time. So far, they like it fairly well. Alison, Rea, and Tim are now attending Connect-Ed again. Alison is teaching new classes (she hasn't taught before, so this is a first time for her). They are ha...
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