christmas started with jim coming home a day early and surprising me almost to the point of peeing my pants...the next day i went to the temple with the third ward youth and that was so fun...i had only gone once before to do baptisms for the dead and so this was a great refresher and experience...i was asked if i was a youth or an endowed member...to their surprise i told them i was endowed...so i got a special outfit...then i was able to be baptised...that came to a surprise to me...i was totally not expecting it so i didn't bring any hair stuff or my EYELASH curler...and i was so concerned that my eyelashes would go dart straight if i was to get baptised and they did, but not as much as i thought they would...so that was cool...the next day was saturday and i think we went shopping for christmas presents...then i worked quite a bit during the christmas holidays...so jim was home lots with the kids...the wednesday before christmas we went to my sista's house jen...we had supper there and ate way to much and so that was the beginning of the christmas binge...we exchanged christmas presents with one another and had a great time visiting and eating...the next day was christmas eve...i worked and then that evening jim's parents and scott and michelle came out and we ate some dips and chips and chocolate stuff that i made...we also got to open our pajama's...gage was super excited to wear his that night that i was not able to wash them before hand!!!...too bad cause i am a little anal about washing stuff before wearing it!...christmas day we opened presents here at the house and then we packed up and headed into coaldale...dave and les came down from eckville and we were able to open our presents there...then it was off to jim's uncle ken's house...all i had to bring was pickles and buns...it was great...we had the traditional turkey and all the trimings...plus ham and cabbage rolls...it was so filling...after visiting for a while and forgetting to pack diapers for addi...we headed home to coaldale...addi had to wear her cousin's pull-up's like 3 sizes to big...it was dang cute, they were so big on her...but let me tell you how greatful i was regardless of size...addi pee'd so much i thought i was going to loose the diaper for sure...but lucky for me leslie had pullups and i was saved...anyways...after addi had a poop i decided that we needed to get home and addi into her little size 3 diapers...boxing day was fun...we woke here in taber again then went to coaldale and then to leth for some shopping...we mostly stayed in coaldale for most of christmas while jim's bro and the cuzs' where here...on the
30th the eckvillians came to taber to go swimming at the pool...gramma and grampa and scott and michelle were here too...the kids had pizza afterwards and the adults had ribs and rice and salad and veggies...new years eve we got the kids dressed up to go to the church for a dance...gage was warned that if he hit at the dance that we were coming home...gage ended up hitting me at the dance right after we ate some pizza...so we had to come home...we went to see if walmart was open cause we were still hungry...but they were closed...so we went to panago and got pizza's again...mmm...mm...mmm good...jim bought some movies...after supper we sent the kids to bed and watched our movies and then went to bed too...jan 2 and 3 i had to work so jim was responsible to get the kids ready for church and get them there too...we changed to 9am church...so he said he ran out of time...a couple of people commented on gage's hair...i guess gage wanted to do his own hair and look like jack frost...so his hair was really spiky all over the place...i guess people noticed it enough to comment on it...unfortunately i didn't get any pictures but just imagine what might have looked like...gage likes jack frost!!!jim had dinner for me when i got home from work except we had to wait another 3 hours to eat...a frozen roast in the crock pot for 3 hours is not nearly long enough...oh well the thought was there...we ate around 6pm...and it was delish!!!today is jan 4 and jim is gearing down to go back to work up to wabescwa, today!!!poor us...gage stole dad's tooth brush and ran away...he thought that if dad didn't have his tooth brush he couldn't go to work...clever boy!!!...but today is the day and jim will be gone for another 10 days...gage starts joy school again tomorrow and can skate too...i am thinking about putting addi into gymnastics but we will see...
