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On Wednesday Sara got news that she was invited to participate in the play as a leopard. It was the character she wanted, so she is very happy. On Saturday we had many wars members come over to our house to help us move our stuff from the portable storage units in front of the house to the Waters house spare room. It was hard work and took 2 hours, but surprisingly enough we got everything in except for a few small boxes. On Sunday we went to church like usual, and on the way home Mike noticed that one of the shipping containers that we were storing our stuff in in front of the house had its door open. Mike went to shut the door and found a comforter blanket and three knives and the container. He threw away the knives on the comforter blanket in our trash can, assuming that some hobo or some kids had gone into the container.  He later learned that apparently Timmy and James have been playing in the container and those blankets and knives were James's. So, Mike had to get the stuff ...

Last Sunday Grandpa Mike have the kids rocks and arrowheads to sell. They are excited to try and make some money (Timmy wants me to add the following emoji 💰 🤑) Wednesday the kids made a kraken theme park ride, which had lights, a camera and sound system and a moving box when you got attacked by the kraken.  Thursday the trains were delayed, so going to Rea's class was harder than usual. When they got there Rea did a speech about book binding, which went well. Elsa wants to add that Jello is so cute and fluffy and cuddly warm, and Gideon wants to add that he likes to play in a box. Friday we got back our wayward minivan, which hadn't broken down again yet. Friday we went ice skating. Timmy said it was great. We started timidly, however by the end we were all pretty proficient. Timmy made it to the center of the rink, and was happy about that. Elsa borrowed a ice seal that helped her not fall down. They named it sealio. It is sort of like a baby walker. We all had a fun time, ...

We forgot to write last week, so this is a two week post. Despite two weeks having passed, our car is still broken. The mechanic said that the engine block is cracked yesterday, so either we are going to have to do major repairs or just replace the car entirely.  Fortunately we are borrowing Grandpa Mike's truck, so we can still get places if we take multiple trips. Last Saturday we went to the thrift store and saw some Magic the Gathering cards, so Mike bought them and is reselling some of them at a profit. With the remainder the kids have been making decks and playing the game. It has been fun. Timmy's deck is called the Legion and is green and full of lots of creatures Gideon also recently got Henry Stickman, which he likes. Timmy and Gideon have been playing a fun game where they fight a dictator.  Timmy really wants to go home, and he wrote this poem about it. I want to go home: Think about it every day I want to go home.  It is a haiku. Lady night we had home made s...

This week we had so many sick people. We just can't seem to get rid of it. Sunday night Rea threw up again (for the last time), but by the morning she was feeling a lot better, so we went out to the hot springs and sat around all day soaking in the warmth. After that Rea, Gideon, Tim, and then Alison got sore throats, so looking back at it, that might not have been the best idea. Gideon's eye also swelled up and was itchy for some reason, but we gave him some antihistamine eyedrops and the swelling went down. Anyway, Tuesday we built Legos for New Year's Eve and watched Lego elf movies. Wednesday was New Year's Day, and we had been invited to Kaitlyn and Sal's house for games, but since everyone was sick we stayed home.  We played Dog Man the board game, which was pretty fun. We liked getting shrink rays and everyone was able to understand the game and enjoy it. On Thursday people were mostly feeling better so we went to Alyssa's birthday party at the waters hou...

Christmas went well this year generally speaking. Two of Rea's presents arrived late, however, all the other presents arrived on time and everyone seems to have enjoyed their presents.  Rea liked her dragon and dragon book ends that she got for her bookshelf. They change color and look super cool. Sara got a lemon and a bunch of dolls, which she really likes.  Tim has been enjoying Pokemon Scarlet which he got for the switch. Gideon got a cool dragon Lego set that he really enjoys Elsa got a costume doll, which she really likes.  Alison likes her milk steamer that she got for making fancy drinks Mike thinks he will like his 4x4 grid of programmable buttons that he is building from a kid 5 he got (but he hasn't gotten it working yet)  We have been celebrating the 12 days of Christmas for watched the hog father and other movies, made fudge, delivered fudge, read Christmas books with the Poulsons, and had a sleep over.  We planned to see the lights downtown, but ba...

Written and illustrated by Tim.  So we all got sick today and yesterday and the day before that. But I wasn't sick I was jumping, or for most of the time I wasn't sick. Gideon barfed twice, Booie barfed twice, Gideon's frogs barfed zero. It made it so we couldn't go to the great sleepover that we had planned. Gideon got baptized. My job was to look at him and see if he went fully under and if Dad messed up on the words. Most of the time we were sitting around listening to music and listening to talks, and then we got to see him get baptized. It was very great, and he got the gift of the holy ghost. We had ice cream at the end and then we played cows and Bob. When it was time to leave we hid from the adults.  We had open about five presents this week three of them were intentional: first we opened a gnome and we named him Logan, because that is the thing that you do. Then we open the greatest Christmas Pageant ever, and then we opened a muffin tin. And then we opened up ...