Between Christmas and a baby

For some fun family time while my parents were out Rachel put together this silly game for us.  Two teams with cards that named two body parts: elbow and knee, nose and hand, shoulder and shoulder, etc… the cards were mixed and randomly drawn and you had to hold the card in place with those two body parts.  Pretty fun…..and the nose to nose one we let David and Lisa do.  Your teams’ turn was over when one of the cards fell, then you counted up how many you had done.

Afterwards we played Telestrations, a new game we got for Christmas.  Basically you sit in a big circle and each person has a word that they draw, then you pass to the next person and they guess what you drew, then pass and the next person draws a picture of the guess, then you pass….etc.  It’s a fun game because everyone is guessing or drawing at the same time and then when you get your notebook back you share the drawing and guesses and just have fun with it.  I think you can keep score…but we never have. We celebrated Grandpa’s birthday before he and mom flew home.  Brent and Jill joined us for the evening -  they are so fun!  We made peach cobbler with some peaches off our tree that we had frozen.  YUMMY!  Of course Grandpa had some helpers when it came to blowing out the candles.

Abbie and Mark had been working on weaving the seats for the little benches Grandpa had put together, but alas we discovered the dowels holding them together weren’t strong enough so that project was put on hold for a while.

Randy got us some dice with words to make haikus with and here is one of mine.  "With grace leaves travel, following silly grand rides, to one dancing near." More Christmas break game time. Neil cruising around the house on the scooter Isaac got for Christmas.  Isaac named it “blue”….because it’s blue. Mark cut out the letter J from a piece of wood for Jessie to decorate. Rachel and Becca piled in Ken’s van with us to see the Festival of Lights.  I still can’t believe how many lights they got on this one tree!

BYU’s “Studio C” is a favorite around here.   (A down right obsession for some of us…not mentioning any names…Jessie….wink, wink!)  Our dinner discussions often turn into quoting sessions and I would have to say personally that listening to Jessie quote them is often more funny than watching the real thing.  But after the little kids had been put to bed we pulled up Teddy’s Story Joint to show Ken.  I think this is about my personal favorite.  You can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHUb2qXVdw Some of the shoulder angel/devil ones are also quite funny.

Abbie got a new drawing book for Christmas.  Here are her owls….so cute!

Dancing in the kitchen on Jessie shoulders.  I love Isaac’s “gloves,”  Spencer’s socks. Grandpa really got Mark interested in the scroll saw again.  He’s made several cut outs and puzzles and they just keep getting better and better.

Taking down the Christmas decorations:  Neil thought the tree skirt made a great cape! The night before I was scheduled to be induced we got to go to a play for Mark’s drama class.  He was the main character in Almost Human, and after spending hours and hours and hours with him helping to memorize lines it was fun to see the play preformed.  He did a fabulous job.  Thanks to Grandma and David and Lisa for joining us.