December has come and gone without an official blog. It was a wonderful Christmas. This is my top 25 list:
1. Max, Marcos, and I picked out and hauled home the Christmas tree. Max is proud to have picked it.
2. Our advent activity this year was to open a wrapped Christmas book every night in December. Big success.
3. Max and Marcos and I spent a morning at the nursing home playing kick ball. Max beaned a 102 year old lady in the head
and the best entertainment was watching Marcos try to pick up balls bigger than him.
4. Our family participated in the Winterfest parade for the second time in 9 years.
5. Our friends the Wekins arrived from the East coast and we battled terrible weather to join them for a super tasty fondue
party.
6. Wilson is Santa Claus in the school play and sings a solo. Max, Cooper and Eliza participate as well.
7. A delicious dinner and fun gift exchange at the Whitman Medical Group party. The keyboard was a great success and I
didn't have to be in charge.
8. I got a new pressure canner for Christmas and had the audacity to give out jars of beans and bacon with wishes for a
"rootin' tootin' Christmas!
9. I felt like a newly engaged girl as I proudly wore my engagement diamond in my grandmother's ring.
10. Snow, Snow, Snow!
11. The Lundbergs brave sub zero temperatures for a beautiful afternoon of sledding in the pristine white.
12. Three house fires in our ward, including one burned to the ground, help remind us of our material blessings and
especially of our non material blessings.
13. It is nice to live in a town where the word Christmas is permitted at school. I even taught the Christmas story of Maria,
Jose and Jesus in the kid's classrooms.
14. Grandma and Grandpa Lundberg gave the kids some Christmas money which they spent on each other! It was so nice to
have them thinking more of each other than themselves.
15. Shoveling snow everyday is a good abdominal and arm workout.
16. The St John church members join for a night of fellowship to enjoy the first presidency Christmas broadcast, brownies
and candycane ice cream.
17. Tony and I have spend a day together and an evening sleeping over with our friends the Hughes. James is receiving
medical treatment and it has been a blessing to spend quality time with them.
18. Christmas Eve at Fredericksons was peaceful and beautiful, but the ride home was the scariest we've ever had. Giant
snow drifts, derranged deer, and subzero temperatures meant that Santa's helpers got a late start and finally tumbled
into their beds at 2:30 in the morning.
19. The power goes out with perfect timing after dessert and we spend a lovely evening admiring stars in the crystal sky and
snuggled up by the fire to read "Gift of the Magi."
20. Tony and I stayed up late making marshmellow--heaven forbid we go through a Christmas season without Grandpa's
Rocky Road.
21. With only a half hour's notice, I got to attend the Symphony Christmas performance with a lovely group of methodists
from St John.
22. Eggnog French toast on Christmas morning--Wilson's delicious idea.
23. Gingerbread trains --I always wonder if it is worth the work until that wonderful gingerbread smell fills the house.
24. "Cancelled due to weather" meant no school, basketball, church activities and even work. Winter brought the best gift of
no place to go!
25. Everyone was surprised and happy and expressed gratitude for their Christmas gifts. Not too little, not too much, just
right. OK--the new TV may have been a little over the top, but we had one happy Daddy as a result.
December has come and gone without an official blog. It was a wonderful Christmas. This is my top 25 list:
1. Max, Marcos, and I picked out and hauled home the Christmas tree. Max is proud to have picked it.
2. Our advent activity this year was to open a wrapped Christmas book every night in December. Big success.
3. Max and Marcos and I spent a morning at the nursing home playing kick ball. Max beaned a 102 year old lady in the head
and the best entertainment was watching Marcos try to pick up balls bigger than him.
4. Our family participated in the Winterfest parade for the second time in 9 years.
5. Our friends the Wekins arrived from the East coast and we battled terrible weather to join them for a super tasty fondue
party.
6. Wilson is Santa Claus in the school play and sings a solo. Max, Cooper and Eliza participate as well.
7. A delicious dinner and fun gift exchange at the Whitman Medical Group party. The keyboard was a great success and I
didn't have to be in charge.
8. I got a new pressure canner for Christmas and had the audacity to give out jars of beans and bacon with wishes for a
"rootin' tootin' Christmas!
9. I felt like a newly engaged girl as I proudly wore my engagement diamond in my grandmother's ring.
10. Snow, Snow, Snow!
11. The Lundbergs brave sub zero temperatures for a beautiful afternoon of sledding in the pristine white.
12. Three house fires in our ward, including one burned to the ground, help remind us of our material blessings and
especially of our non material blessings.
13. It is nice to live in a town where the word Christmas is permitted at school. I even taught the Christmas story of Maria,
Jose and Jesus in the kid's classrooms.
14. Grandma and Grandpa Lundberg gave the kids some Christmas money which they spent on each other! It was so nice to
have them thinking more of each other than themselves.
15. Shoveling snow everyday is a good abdominal and arm workout.
16. The St John church members join for a night of fellowship to enjoy the first presidency Christmas broadcast, brownies
and candycane ice cream.
17. Tony and I have spend a day together and an evening sleeping over with our friends the Hughes. James is receiving
medical treatment and it has been a blessing to spend quality time with them.
18. Christmas Eve at Fredericksons was peaceful and beautiful, but the ride home was the scariest we've ever had. Giant
snow drifts, derranged deer, and subzero temperatures meant that Santa's helpers got a late start and finally tumbled
into their beds at 2:30 in the morning.
19. The power goes out with perfect timing after dessert and we spend a lovely evening admiring stars in the crystal sky and
snuggled up by the fire to read "Gift of the Magi."
20. Tony and I stayed up late making marshmellow--heaven forbid we go through a Christmas season without Grandpa's
Rocky Road.
21. With only a half hour's notice, I got to attend the Symphony Christmas performance with a lovely group of methodists
from St John.
22. Eggnog French toast on Christmas morning--Wilson's delicious idea.
23. Gingerbread trains --I always wonder if it is worth the work until that wonderful gingerbread smell fills the house.
24. "Cancelled due to weather" meant no school, basketball, church activities and even work. Winter brought the best gift of
no place to go!
25. Everyone was surprised and happy and expressed gratitude for their Christmas gifts. Not too little, not too much, just
right. OK--the new TV may have been a little over the top, but we had one happy Daddy as a result.
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