A couple of weeks back, The Primary put on a breakfast at the church, and called the activity “Meet Your Teacher”. More like “Meet These Bacon and Eggs, and Fabulous Belgian Waffles Made By Janet Wayman!” : ) Just unbelievable. Those waffles were to die for! Charlie couldn't resist. He has actually lost 20 lbs during the past month and a half. . . He's taken on this 'no carb' diet, and has followed it! For the most part. . He did have a small Holiday treat every now and again. . . : ) It's hard to be 100% disciplined in December, with all that chocolate and cheese laying about! Plus his birthday was right there in the middle of it all. . The peeps at work took him out to lunch, and bought him cupcakes. : ) They're always feeding him over there, ordering in or going out. . . He actually passed up lasagna one day! Absolutely amazing. Truly inspirational! Considering my weakness for Italian food, I just have to say. . What a MAN. : ) I need to do something similar. . Especially if we're actually gonna go to my 20 year HS reunion this summer. . . : ) Gotta loose that persistent 'baby fat'!
Christmas Eve, somebody left us a card with a hundred dollars in it. This was a blessing indeed, since the Santa stuff didn't seem to be quite even. . . I was 'on top of it' this year! : ) Normally, we make lists, but for some reason, things just weren't matching up. Consequently, Charlie and I did a rare thing, something we've never done before. . We ran out to buy last minute Christmas presents, in a moderately enthusiastic snowstorm. : ) We drove carefully through the neighborhood to the traditional 'corner drugstore', Wal-Green's, on the corner of Redwood and 78th. It was a lot of fun, and quite entertaining. Funny how all 15 cars that were actually out on the streets at this hour, seemed to be heading in the same direction. . After all, there was only one store left open. . . : ) Ha ha! Hilarious! We had a good time searching for appropriate gifts among all the varied and sundry items traditionally displayed there. Light bulbs, grout tools. . toenail clippers. . just what kids want to see under the tree Christmas morning! Snicker. : ) Thankfully, they had somewhat of a . . diverse selection. . .
December 30th, there was a special Youth Activity held at the Stake Center. All our big kids went over. . . They had dinner, 'a whole lot of pizza' and salad, and watched the program that had been recorded at the Conference Center back in November. I'm so glad that there is something put together to entertain teenagers!
New Year's Eve, Charlie came home with red and white roses, a small box of chocolates, and 3 large pizzas from Papa Murphy's : )
Wow. . . It was soooo nice to see him! Such a relief to have a 'grown up' to talk to!
I hadn't been feeling very well, and had spent the afternoon at the zoo with Eric and the little kids. It was a perfect day to be at the zoo. . mild, sunny, no wind to speak of. . . but after dealing with the children all day, I was so glad to see my man! : ) We had a nice peaceful New Year's Eve, munching pizza, watching movies, and trying to stay up till midnight. . I didn't quite make it. : ) Aleia was excited to see The Jonas Brothers perform at Times Square. Laena spent the day with Diego, and for whatever reason, decided to dye her hair a dark red for the evening's festivities. Why not? She wants to get 'extensions' so as to make her hair long again. : ) Such fun!
On a different note, Charlie's come up with a great plan to get the kids to want to read scriptures! We read every night for a month, and if we get up to 60 pages, we get to go out to dinner to some nice place at the end of that month! We'll take turns deciding where. : ) What a great idea! : ) What a great plan. What a great guy! I've been blessed to have Charlie as my husband. The Sunday before Christmas, we took the family down to Provo, and Springville, to see my Grandpa Tanner, and then my Grandma June Bartholomew. They're both hanging in there. . . Grandpa seemed happy to see us. He's in a wheelchair most of the time now. I don't know if he'll make it to another Christmas. Sigh. Grandma's in better health. She's always taken fantastic care of herself. She's now the only one left, of her immediate family, her little sister Carol having passed away in October a couple of years back. . . Probably has something to do with the fact that Grandma never eats red meat, and always does her exercises! : ) Jean's family planned to pick her up Christmas Eve for a surprise treat. : ) I think they were heading down to Natalie's, in Spanish Fork, for a evening with Santa Claus! Pretty cute. : ) Jean and Richard are currently on a service mission up here in Salt Lake City. Jean's such an amazing woman. . so dedicated and hard working. . . On the 'other side', my cousin Jessica took Grandpa out to Paul's in Duchesne, for a Tanner Family Christmas!
Seems like we had a pretty good Christmas. . Now, to start off the New Year. . .
"I . . must blog!" : )
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To all those who might not have done last minute Christmas shopping at midnight Christmas eve, I would highly recommend it. It was actually quite a bit of Fun!
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