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In which we don't mention Bob the Tomato the canoe

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Alison was recently asked if she was planning to teach a new class next semester in the same teaching co-op that she is currently teaching in. She would like to teach, however, she hasn't yet put too much thought into it, so she is now starting to try to figure out what to teach. Mike and Rea were sick for multiple days this last week. Both of them are pretty good about wearing masks, so probably they didn't pass it on to anyone, however, it is hard to know for sure. Some of the kids went to the Dalyas on Wednesday instead of going to nature group like usual. One can only assume that they had a fun time, however, they are not here to confirm or deny that right now. On Friday Alison and Mike went to see The Importance of Being Earnest. The Sandy arts guild was putting it on, and they did a pretty good job of it. We really love to play and go to see it every chance that we can get, so we might not be likely to call it horrible, but that being said we still thought it was fun.  Sa...
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A Wooden Hat

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This week was very exciting in the video game community; there was a new update for Terraria! Mike, Tim, Gideon, and cousin Logan spent a lot of hours exploring the new rules of the world. If you want to talk to any of them, they would be happy to tell you about how stacking whips no longer works or the trick to sand blocks or some other things I've forgotten by now. The Terraria update was on Tuesday, so that was the main thing going on for a few days. Oh, before that, on Monday Elsa's school had a Literacy Night, and she and Mom went and read some books and did some activities and got given a few free books. Elsa got Pete the Cat and the New White Shoes, which she was very excited about. Her school lets her track when we read together online for prizes. Friday the Elders Quorem hosted a ward Pinewood Derby. The kids were soo excited. There's a sister in the ward known for decorating, and she painted her car like Pikachu, organized all the kids to cheer for her, and won th...
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This Monster: the Fish of the Hills

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We noticed we haven't written a blog post in a little while. Alison sums it up thus: we were sick and then sick and then sick and then sick and then sick and now we are finally getting better.  Here are some good things that we did recently: We went to the zoo. Timmy really wants to go back, so it must have been fun. We played another RPG session with Chauncey and Becky. The highlight of the session was as we were trying to escape the evil ruler of the city in a boat on the water we accidentally summoned the fish of the hills (which is a cryptozooid which my character invented as a cover story for why we were hanging around the town). Apparently something that matched the description that I came up with actually existed in the river, so when we sang a song about it we summoned it and it ate the bad guy who was chasing us.  It was rather entertaining, and a perfect ending to the session.
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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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