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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 ...

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...