Why we'll never leave Iraq

This is pretty funny.

Santa for dinner

Hi everyone. You would never guess who we had for dinner tonight. SANTA!!! Yep. There is a guy in our ward who loves to be Santa, and they decided to not do santa at the ward Christmas party this year, so we asked if he could come a be santa for our kids. We asked Hunter to write Santa a letter. We told him that there was a contest and the winner got to have Santa come for dinner. Of course Hunter won, and Santa showed up miraculously after this lady in our ward who was coming for dinner (his wife, funny that Hunter didnt catch on!!!) Anyways, unfortunately Hunter hasnt been feeling well so he was a little tired and standoffish. However, Lilly LOVED it. This is the girl who wouldn't get close to santa last year. They were so cute. I think that the man and his wife had fun to. He does make one impressive santa, real beard and all. Anyways. Just had to tell everyone. I have attached yet another fake picture of a Santa that wasn't ours, and kids who aren't ours, but you get the drift. Maybe one day I will find our camera cord and stop stealing other peoples pictures!!! (The picture is actually Brent, Alisha and Scott when they were young, if they

look familiar)

It's Saturday, it's snowing and I'm typing my finals, so naturally, I'm thinking about the beach! What are those dates again? This is a picture from September when Jeff and I went to San Diego for a few days. And no, I'm not shrinking- just standing in a hole in the sand.

Who was Flee?

Tonight we had a movie night and made banana splits. We watched the movie "The Nativity," to get us in the mood for the Christmas season. It was a good movie, though Rachel was a bit freaked out by the movie's interpretation of the spirit speaking to Zacharias.

So we get to the part where Herod's soldiers are ready to storm Bethlehem to kill the baby boys. And the spirit whispers to Joseph "take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt..." Rachel looks at me and says "Who was Flee?? Oh yeah, it must have been the donkey!"

Time for a vocabulary lesson....

The mind of an engineer

Lincoln and Isaac and I were playing Cranium Hullabaloo. Thats where there are colored pads and the computer tells you what to go to next and how to get there. After a while Isaac just sat down and gathered a variety of pads around him! He didn't have to exert much effort after that!

We love the Missionaries

Our missionaries right now are Elder Doty and Elder Vaughn. I had to put pictures of them of the blog. The sink Elder Doty is washing my dishes at holds the dishes in the bottom of the sink so they are about at my knees. And Elder Doty is I think over 6'4". You can see why I had to put this picture in here. His companion is Elder Vaughn, and when they drive up and he sees me pulling a load of wood in the house he says, "I do not want to see you doing that!" These missionaries have washed dishes for me, folded clothes with me, painted for me. And that is only in the few moments they take off from being great missionaries. Do you all agree with me that you wish they would come to your house? I'll show this to them later. . .so upbeat missionary remarks would be great.