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| December was a very busy and exciting month. We started out the month with the school skating party and Lauren's 1/2 birthday at school. I went to eat lunch with Lauren, and stayed for recess. She donated a book to the school library and took brownies for her birthday treat. We also had the G.S. Christmas party at our house. The girls exchanged gifts, played games, made dough ornaments, ate, and went caroling at a local nursing home. Lauren went to another birthday party. I baked 5 dozen cookies and went to the neighborhood cookie exchange. Jared had red day and the show and tell bag at school. He took trains for both days. We had a brownies meeting and a GS leader meeting. The 12th was Secret Santa day at the girls school. (All the kids go to the community room class by class and buy $1 gifts for their family.) I helped in the babysitting room and as a helper for the shopping. The kids get their gifts wrapped and make a bag to put them in. It is a lot of fun. Jared even got to shop after it was over. The 13th was Lunch with Santa at Dennis' work. The kids got to sit on Santa's lap, make a craft, eat lunch, and they all got a gift. Dennis finished his arcade game. He took an empty old arcade cabinet and with a lot of time and computer/ electrical work turned it into a working arcade game that plays all of the old favorites. Unfortunately he doesn't get to play it much, because the rest of us are playing it. The next week we had the neighborhood playgroup at our house, Jared's school party and the girls' school parties. We spent a lot of time making all the crafts for the teachers and bus drivers. I helped with Lauren's party and stopped in at Lindsey's for a few minutes. We also finished up our shopping and wrapping.
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We started our Christmas on Christmas Eve when the kids opened their gifts from Memaw Reed. Santa came (along with about 3-4 inches of snow) on Christmas morning. We opened our family gifts and then Dennis got to use his new gloves and earmuffs shoveling snow . We left for Indiana on Christmas afternoon. We should have taken some snow with us because they did not have any. We celebrated Christmas with my family on Friday morning and with my grandma in the afternoon. We spent the day with Dennis' sister Jennifer and Chad on Saturday and celebrated once more on Sunday with the McClanahans in southern Indiana where it was 60 degrees. We left on Monday to return home. Everyone had a great Christmas. Jared got a train table from Santa. Lauren's favorite gift was a Hilary Duff CD, and Lindsey's was clothes. |
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December pictures click on the photos below to enlarge the image
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Family Birthdays Caitlin Rider
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