Christmas Carol

We went to the Christmas Carol this afternoon. And of course it was great. It is always nice to be reminded not to be a Scrooge. It seams the we are always in a rush at this time of year, and don't take much time to remember what Christmas really means. I am glad that all but the boys Christmas is done and we can just worry about other things. I hope my family can continue to remember what Christmas is all about.

Dell and Grandma Peterson and Randy and I. Randy's Mom and sisters Breena and Aimee came but we couldn't get all the seats together so they sat on the other side of the theater.



While we went to the play my mom and dad took the boys ice skating. They loved it and want to go again. My mom will probably post pictures so check on her blog.

Then we all meet up to eat. With mom being on her diet she is a little picky, but you would have to be if you stick with it so she didn't or couldn't eat at the places we thought of and the place my dad wanted to go randy hates so Mom said lets do Mexican so the only place I could think was Mi Ranchito.(thanks Kim for writing about it on your blog) It was great. I like what I got Tyler didn't like what he got and clay thought it was okay he just wanted grandmas pina colada Randy thought his was okay. He is so picky sometimes. Thanks for going with us mom and dad we had a great time.

The first 2 days of our cruise

Sunday the 16Th the hotel shuttled us to Miami port. We went through all the paper work stuff got are room keys and off we went. They don't let you go straight to your room, so we went to eat lunch. Then we walked around the ship. After awhile we were able to go to our room. My bags were there but Randy's wasn't they said they would be there before 7:00 and they came sometime between 6:30 and 7:00 so Randy couldn't change out of his shorts before dinner. We check things out and then it was almost time to leave the port. I wanted to go up top to watch us leave the beautiful city of Miami. We had made a reservations for the french restaurant La Cucina. We have never eat french so I really wanted to try it. (for those of you who want to see what kid of things we eat check out the pictures). The food was great. Randy started with Onion soup which was really good and I had Asparagus I loved it then Randy had swordfish which neither of us had tried before, and I didn't like Randy thought it was OK. I had Duck and whatever the call goose liver. I loved the duck hated the liver. For dessert I had some kind of crepes and Randy something else.(sorry I can't remember what it was called. The dessert was the best part of the meal. Then we went to the show which was good. It was a Little of all the acts we saw that week. Durning the show they introduced a couple that was on the honeymoon.(they will come into play a few days later.) Sometime this night we had bought the picture they take before we left and Randy sat it down, and we didn't remember until the next day, we looked for it for a couple of days. Someone had found it and turned it in but picture wasn't in the photo book. Saturday they reprinted it for us. We were hungry again so we ate a little more then went to bed.

Monday was the only morning we really got to sleep in. Since we were at sea all day. So we took full advantage. Then we ate breakfast and then went to play Bingo. I WON!! 246 dollars. Don't really remember what else we did during the day but that night we ate at the Mexican restaurant Mambo's The best part was the dessert which was a Mango and Pineapple compote. we went to the show which was good, can't remember what it was. Because we ate dinner so early I was always hungry before bed so we ate at the Great outdoors every night before bed. That night we went to bed early since we had to be up early. Plus I had some kind of junk in my head. A sinuses cold or something.

Stay tuned for the fun part of the cruise coming up. Sorry i just don't have the patience to sit and type it all out at one time plus it would be a huge entry.

Oh Chirstmas tree

So we got the tree up. We usually will put it up the day after Thanksgiving. But this year we helped his mom and dad and then Randy had to work all weekend. So he had today off and while I was at work brought the tree and everything up. Tyler has been ask all weekend when we were going to put it up he had a hard time waiting until this evening. Last year when we put it up I couldn't help much, because I had had surgery 2 days before Thanksgiving. This year I wanted it the way I like it. So of course I do the lights. If Randy does them he only put 3-4 strands of lights, when I do it I put 6-7 strands on.





While I was putting on the lights Tyler and Randy were getting the next strand ready.




Then its time to decorate. I sit and an wrap all the ornaments and had them to the boys and Randy helps them put them on top.







Now its all complete. I think they did a great job. They only thing left is the Angel but it is in a tote we haven't brought up yet. This year we are going to decorate the whole house since we didn't do it last year.

Raking Leaves

Friday we went over to Randy's mom and dad's to see what help they need in the kitchen and the boys were kind of in the way. SO I suggested to Clay that he might ask Grandpa how much I would be worth to him if Clay and Tyler raked the leaves up in the front yard. Grandpa said he would give them each Five dollars. I helped them get the rakes and off they went. An hour later I went to see how they were doing and Clay had a couple of big piles and poor Tyler had little piles, so I helped Tyler get a big pile. Then Grandma came out to See how they were doing and they wanted to know where they should put the leaves, she got the swimming pool and an garbage can and a tote. Then Grandma got the pitch fork out and was throwing the leaves in the pool. Once clay saw this he wanted to do it and the Tyler to so Grandma had to get another pitch fork out.




Then Grandpa came to see how they were doing and they had the pool the can and the tote full of leaves and they need to know where to put it so he helped them carry the pool over to his truck and they dumped them in. By the time they were finished the truck was full of leaves.





It took them about 3 hours to do it. So they got there five dollars each.





Then I took them to Game Crazy to by game cube games they had them on sale 4 for ten dollars so they each were able to get 2.

It was the perfect project for them to do so they wouldn't be in the way in the house.

Great job boys!!

Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a great THANKSGIVING!

Ours started kind of early. I had set my alarm to get up at 7:00 am but for some reason it didn't go off. You see I had to cook the turkey and if I got up at 7:00 then it would be done by 11:30 and we could leave. Well since my alarm didn't go off I didn't get up until 8:00. I hate when this happens. So Randy and I got it in the oven by 9:00 and it was done at Noon. We were supposed to be at the church is Spanish by noon and we didn't get there until 1:00, the good thing was that they couldn't start with out us because we had the most important part of the meal. The reason I could the turkey was because Randy's mom and dad are in the middle of redoing the kitchen and the stove isn't hooked up.

Randy's Grandma Peterson thought that this might be the Thanksgiving she will have so she wanted all of her kids there. All but one showed up and it was great to see them, it has been 8 years since we had last seen David and Virgina, and just a couple of months since we had seen the rest of them. We had a huge feast. There were tons of left over salads and pies. When we got the church all cleaned up those who weren't going home came to our house because again Randy's mom and dads house has kitchen stuff all over and there was no room to put any one. We had a great visit with David and Virgina, and I hope we see them sooner then 10 years.

I,m so thankful for my boys and my husband and all off my family and friends. It has been nice to come home for are vacation and know we were missed. My boys just keep loving me. hugging and cuddling, it is nice since it is hard to get a hug, I will love every minute of it cause I know it won't last long. I'm thankful for my Savior and the love he has for me. I'm grateful Randy's great job, and that he works so hard to take care of us. I'm thankful for working cars, my sisters broke down today and that sucks big time, I'm glad we haven't had any problems. Knock on wood!!!

I hope you all had a great day with your loved ones as I did with mine.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

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T.V.

I am so frustrated. I was so looking forward to catch up on some of my favorite shows when I got home from our cruise. Come to find out that some durning the week the remote to the TV. in our t.v. room stopped working. so yesterday I called Direct t.v to see if the could help me get it working again. so it took about an hour but it finally was working. A couple of hours later I was watching the biggest loser and it stopped working, wouldn't let me fast forward change the channel turn it on or off it was frustrating. So I went to the bed room to watch something else. Randy and I were watching Amazing race and the commercials came up some I was fast forwarding through them and the remote stopped working, we pushed play, stop, pause, it would not work. So I called Direct t.v. again and this time everything they had me do would not work. And the soonest they could come out is next Tuesday. Every since we switched we have one had one month that we haven't had problems if they can't fix the problem this time when they come out I will be switching. So much on catching up on my favorite shows.

Since I compiling I would like to get a few more things off my chest.

Before we left we hadn't gotten the license plate for the truck and the temporary tags expired on the 17Th of this month. Randy's dad needed to borrow the truck to pick up things they were getting to remodel there kitchen. So we gave him our mail key and Had him check the mail for them. they never came. So when we got home Monday Randy called the place we bought the truck. They told him that someone had broken into there place and stole all the paper work. So now we have to go back up to salt lake and fill out all the paper work again and get new temporary license plates. It would have nice to know about this before we left but because the paper work was stolen the didn't have our number to call and tell us. Nice huh.

A few weeks a going we switched phone company's and when I called to cancel they didn't tell me that we had to send the box back, so when we got home we had been charged $100 dollars for not returning. It really upsets me when customer service it not help full. When they don't tell you things you need to know. Why can't company's be more costumer friendly.

These were things that just had to make coming home less pleasant.

100 Things

I liked this one a lot! A lot of things I haven't done I would really like to do some day. I copied this from my cousin Christy, hope you don't mind! All of the things I have done are in green
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped (does doing the soar in high at lagoon count)
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (does a couple of years of Spanish in school count)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (does May Kay and Pamper Chef count)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book (does making a book off the Internet count)
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Totally copied a post from someone else's blog to your own