I love December and everything about it! We have done some fun Christmas things so far. For our Christmas cards this year I found a neighbor's shed in the alley for the perfect green backdrop. Chris cooperated for some of the pictures, and some... well, he was just his cute silly self. I even snapped a cute picture of the dogs. Here are some of the silly ones that I didn't use for the card. Even with Chris being silly, the cards came out super cute!
My office Christmas party was last week. You know how much fun I have a work! The Christmas party was going to be fun! We had to bring a $5 white elephant gift. I thought it would be funny to print out a picture of Amy, Ginger and I and put it in a frame. Here is my prize:
So funny right? I thought everyone would fight for it. I mean, who wouldn't want a picture of us three? I was hoping the Doctor would get it and put it in the office since we were the "Three Blind Mice" In the picture. As we were playing the gift exchange I open up my gift and found this:
Sweet little Linsey thought it would be funny to put mine and Amy's picture on a bar of soap. The picture is just a great picture too. Haha! THEN some one opens another prize:
Well ain't that something! Everyone had the same idea! This is the prize that Ginger brought. Almost everyone is fully stocked with framed pictures of Ginger Amy and I. This picture is now hanging in the billing office. Our boss put together a Jeopardy game, when you got a question right he gave you "funny money" to later trade in for a gift card of your choice. Chris and I cleaned house! Chris is so dang smart! After Chris won $110 there was a rule put in place that you could only answer two questions before you were cut off and couldn't win any more money. I ended up winning $70 before I was cut off too. Chris is just so smart! I have been stressing myself out a lot lately about money, since Chris doesn't have a job yet, its Christmas, and I'm going to be working less next semester. This money was really a blessing! We got some gift cards for the grocery store, Walmart, and other places.
Over the weekend we went to a BYU-I Christmas concert. The BYU-I choir, was playing with dancing, and featured the oh so cute little David Archuletta and Nathan Pacheco. The concert was absolutely beautiful and the perfect way to start the Christmas season. David Archuletta sang a new song he wrote that brought me to tears. Its called "My little prayer" He told us he had a dream one night that he was talking to the Lord, but he was signing when we was talking to him. The Lord then told him to "Wake up and go write this down because you will forget it" David was confused in his dream and didn't know how to wake up from it, but he did. He woke up and went to the piano to write that song. The song is so simple and beautiful. I felt like that song was something I needed to hear, about being patient and knowing my Heavenly Father IS really there for me and that even though we are going through this trial of no work and not having children. It's like he wrote and sang it just for me (and everyone else in the world) If you want to cry watch the music video here: My Little Prayer
You know how people say "It's always darkest before dawn" Well, our furnace broke this week! Yay! It was doing this thing where it wouldn't turn off when it got to the set temperature, and would keep blowing so the house got super warm, and the wires were melting. We spent night one in the cold, shut our bedroom door and turned on the space heater. Our room was pretty warm until I woke up the next morning before work and the rest of the house was 54 degrees! There was no way I was getting in the shower! So I skipped my shower that day because it was too cold. Chris' uncle is an electrician and came over to fix it. He switched out some wires and left. The furnace did it again. Broke night two. I had to force myself to shower the next day! Ha! Day three he couldn't make it over, so another freezing night with space heaters. Day four he came back over and hallelujah! It was fixed!! Yay for heat! There is only a few weeks left this year, can anything else go wrong? I really hope not. I am so over this year. It really has been so rough and I want it to be over, I feel like I can't take any more.
Roxy was so excited when the heat came back on!
My sister asked me to babysit one night. I love spending time with my nephews because they are so dang cute. I have to show you the most PERFECTLY timed picture.
Picture one:
Picture two:
As I was taking this picture it is like the whole world stopped and everything was in slow motion as I hit "click" and slowly watch the baby throw up all over my shirt and on his brothers head. I could not have timed that better! I also sent the picture into Ellen! SO FUNNY! After the little one cried all night and I put his brother to bed and enjoyed the peace and quite of a squishy baby cuddles
The Mormon church is doing a "Light the World" Initiative this Christmas season, where you do one kind act of service everyday. One day I gave a homeless man more money than I could afford myself, but I am sure he needed it more than I did. Last night we got some popcorn, and some Christmas Cards. In the cards I wrote " Enjoy a movie treat" I put the popcorn in the envelope and on the envelope wrote "To: You!" We then went to Redbox and tapped the envelopes to the card readers at the Redbox. We sat in the car and watched one guy go up to Redbox. He saw them envelope and looked around in confusion. He then took the envelope with a big smile. All while we were giggling in the car watching him. It was so much fun to do this! It was a very small act of service, and I wish we could do more but money is tight for ourselves, but I am sure it made a couple peoples night. To find more about "Light the World" Go here: Light the World
Misc pet pictures:
I'm with you. Here's hoping 2017 is better for both of us.
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