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| We had to have one good Settler's game before Tanner left! |
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| Garry and I make a good team. I see something I want to do on a blog and he makes a pattern for me and then I make it. |
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| I wanted to do this snowman for singing time the last week of December and so he made up the pattern and I cut and assembled it out of glitter paper. |
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| I made myself three bracelets and two pairs of earrings one night during break while we watched a movie. |
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| Tanner got glittered after all as he helped me take down my Christmas decor. |
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| The boxes sat in the hall way for a few days until Garry could get to them. |
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| We took the tower of treats that Mikel's grandmother had given us to the Shafers for New Years Eve fun. |
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| Tanner and Cynjyn happily went to Goodwill with us during the break. |
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| We treated ourselves to Wendy's afterwards. |
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| New Years Eve we made mini pizza's. Cynjyn and Becca were at Sister Oylers with the beehives doing the same thing. |
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| That is why there is no picture of her and I together on NYE. We took this during dinner. |
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| Midnight was celebrated at the Shafer's. We went outside and banged pots and looked for fireworks and drank sparkling cider and kissed. |
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| Tanner had gone with us and we played games with Jay and Andrea. Taz was at the Pappas' and Cynjyn and Becca were home alone. |
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| We left them with a bottle of sparkling grape juice and they toasted. |
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| And built a fort and had a great time. |
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| I'm pretty sure Becca stayed over here for three days. Taz had his friends over for a double sleepover too. One night they went in the hot tub and then they got too hot. |
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| So the crazies jumped into the like 30 degree pool!! |
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| This is a random picture of Cynjyn from my recital. Boy o boy do those kids love the little smokies that I serve. Almost every kids plate looks like this as they go through. |
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| Back to the sleepover. Cynjyn, Becca, Markus, Charlie, Andrew, Ryan, Michael and Taz had a great time together. They played so many games. Curses and Spot it and Jungle speed are favorites. They also played a lot of ping pong and a massive game of hide and go seek in the dark from midnight until 2am. |
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| I feed them all enchiladas one night for dinner and the kids outweighed the adults, so we let them have the table. |
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| We took the island. |
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| Ryan and Andrew stayed an extra night because they were in a 3 on 3 basketball tournament with Taz at the church. They grilled chicken for us that night and boy was it yummy. |
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| Cynjyn gave Tanner one last hug before she went to bed because his plane was leaving early the next morning and she wouldn't be up. |
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| I took one last picture with him before bed. |
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| After break it was back to the grind. I started the year off healthy by making me a quinoa, corn, black bean and orange pepper salad to take to lunch for the week. I had a grilled chicken breast with it each day and it was delicious. |
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| Cynjyn kept putting my scarf on and saying ho ho ho, so I finally took a picture after she put on my red coat and hat. |
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| This first week back to school the choir kids were working on a project where they could pick out a song and perform it together in small groups. They could use props if they wanted. I spent the week helping groups pick out songs. The kids were surpised I knew so many and had so many on my playlist. I picked out What the Fox Say for a group of two boys. They wanted fox ears, so I went home and whipped these up for them. They were so excited, but then they added a third boy to their group and he wouldn't do that song. I was sad. But then they talked him into it and so I made a third mask and they did a great job! |
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| And that is how January started. |
