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 because he kept messing up every heist one after the next. Do not hire Mike's bear as a driver.

Rea and Sara have been getting ready for their play for the entire time, however, they missed tech week because of the beach house.

We went to the beach house for Thanksgiving with the Poulson family as usual. It was good to be on the beach. We made sand sculptures, Mike wove baskets, Rea found a sea scorpion thingy, we played with cousins, dug a deep pit (about 7 feet deep), and tried to finish our Nanos.

After we got home the girls almost immediately acted in the first showing of their play. They were nervous because they had missed tech week, however, they did very well and the play was fun and well enjoyed.

Elsa decided that she wanted to meet Santa, so we went to an event where Santa would be present and had hot cocoa and roasted marshmallows and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited in line until Elsa decided that she had had enough and skipped out of the line right when we got close to the front. On the other hand there was a very fun playground that all of the other kids played on well Elsa and Mike were waiting in line.

We realized that we hadn't ordered anyone Christmas presents, so we did that this last week. Hopefully they all arrive in time.

Tim and Gideon have been wanting to start up a RPG campaign, so they invited Logan and Dustin over yesterday to create characters for a dungeons & dragons campaign.

Last night we attended the word Christmas party and at the end of it they asked us to go around caroling and delivering cookies to people. We were able to successfully get rid of all of the plates of cookies that we had and only one person slammed a door in our face so I would count that as a pretty good success. 

We were singing a song about demanding figgy pudding from people, and one of the people that we carried to was not a native English speaker and she was wondering what she was supposed to do in response to that, so it was sort of embarrassing but we made it through by telling her it was a joke. 

To end it off - here are some pictures in reverse chronological order:

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