12/31/22

Mom's gift was coming in the mail today and it said it was out for delivery.  I went to the post office and they searched and found my package. I was happy because we are celebrating Christmas today so Mom will have her gift.  We got to Mom's house around 10:00. Vikki and Melissa and their families came too. We waited for Kenzie and Travis.  Dad started off by reading the Christmas story from the Bible.  Then the kids did their gift exchange.  Jacob got new funny socks and CMU things from Hailey.  Adam got an Apple Card and candy from Max and Eli got an Echo dot from Isaac.  The guys handed out gifts and then we opened them, youngest to oldest.  From Nana and Papa Jacob got a pedal for turning music pages on his iPad, Adam got a light up mouse pad and an Apple Card.  Eli got legos and strip lights for his room.  Jared got a new light to hang in the tack room and a Home Depot card.  I got some dish clothes (made by mom), some dish soap, a spatula, Tim Hortons card, some wireless chargers and a charger stand for my watch.  Kenzie gave us some great paintings she did of Bo and Truman.  And she also gave me a cute little jar with little pieces of glass in it.  Pieces that are special to her including a piece from GA.  Jared got a cool shirt, made by Travis.  Eli also gave me a beautiful flower drawing he did for me.  We ate around 2:00.  There was ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing,  crainberries, gravy, cheesey potatoes, squash, strawberry jello, and rolls.  The food was so good!!  Thank you Mom!!  Stacie and her family came over too.  We played some fun games that Hailey brought and had a nice time visiting.  The kids had fun playing in the basement.  We went to Vikki's house this evening to celebrate New years. Jared and Adam went home to take care of Wyatt and picked up Claire on the way back.  We taught Claire how to play Taco, cats, goats cheese pizza.  We played that alot and also played some fun games of skipbo.  Later we played Pie in the face.  We toasted in the new year with sparkling juice.  Happy New year!!!

12/30/22

 Jared had the day off work today.  We worked on taking pottery pictures, measuring and posting it onto our Etsy page.  The we had to number them and pack them away in the cabinet.  This took most of the day and I'm glad it's done.  This evening we played bedwars with the boys. 

12/29/22

 

12/28/22

 

I went back to Vikki's today to help paint.  Jacob and Adam stayed home because Adam's head was hurting bad.  He was asking to take his medicine early because it helped his headache so much.  When I got there I started working on spackling the bathroom.  Vikki and Rody worked in the office filling holes.  There were alot.  Whoever spackled the bathroom before did a bad job.  We paint the bathroom and Rody's office.  We finished around midnight.  Eli and I stopped for a pop on the drive home.  

12/27/22

We went to Vikki's house today to help her paint her family room. They already had it taped up and a coat of paint on it. We were painting over paneling so we did a couple extra coats.  The part that took the longest was taking off the tape.  The paint had dried to the tape and was pealing the paint from the paneling.  We had to cut it all with a blade first.  It took a while.  We had fun working together.  It looks really nice.  Adam's head was hurting bad this evening.  Eli stayed to spend the night at Aunt Bippi's. 

12/26/22

 

We were up around 8am.  Jared came to me and said he was feeling "really funny".  He was feeling dizzy, really hot and nauseous.  After a couple minutes he was feeling a lot better.  This happened a few time today but the rest of the day he was feeling good.  The last time it happened was around 5pm so we decided he should go in and get checked out at the urgent care.  He didn't want to go but I thought he should and the boys wanted him to go too, so he agreed to go.  When we got there they said we could wait in our car and it would be about 45 min.  We went to McDonald's to get Jared a burger and we shared a smoothie.  The Dr did an exam on Jared and an EKG which all turned out good.  They were going to do a blood sugar test but didn't have enough tests.  Jared will have bloodwork done tomorrow.  Jacob had put a pizza in the oven for dinner.  Tonight we watched The Chosen.