No movies for me this weekend, but me and the hubby stayed very busy. On Friday night, I got off work a little early (didn't end up getting a patient) so we grabbed a bite to eat at one of our favorite places, Brewsters. It was yummy! Then, we headed home and watched some tv.
On Saturday, we were up early (the crack of dawn, i.e. 0900) and headed out to Salcha to get our Christmas tree. We stopped for a snack on the way (cinnamon buns and chocolate milk, yum) and then went xmas tree hunting. On the way, we saw a little moose eating some grass along side the road. Then, we saw three grouse while we were xmas tree hunting. Finally, we found our tree!! It wasn't perfect on the bottom so we hacked that part off and just kept the top part, which looked great. We strapped it down in Dan's truck and headed back to our house. We put the tree up and added a few lights. After that, we headed over to return Dan's truck. Trip #1 to Salcha done.
Then, we were done with all that and headed back out to Salcha to visit Jon's adoptive grandparents, Jerry & Eleanor. By the time we got there, we found out we had more kids than we had room for in our car. So after a brief visit (and I do mean brief, about 15 minutes), we headed back to get Dan's expedition. Trip #2 to Salcha done.
After getting the expedition to borrow (cuz it can seat 8 people), we went back to Salcha to pick up the kids. We had 5 kids waiting for there, which was great. So into town we headed to putt putt. Trip #3 to Salcha done.
We arrived to putt putt and met another one of our youth there. That made 8 people, including us, which meant two teams of 4 people. We did glow-in-the-dark putt putt, which was a lot of fun. There are no lights, just black lights and the green glows, the balls glow, the decorations glow. It is great! I got a lowest score in my group (which was an added bonus, hehe) and Jon and I both got a hole in one on the last hole. Don't mess with our putt putt skills. Haha. So then we went to Coldstone Creamery and had monster servings of icecream. Yum! Mine was awesome. We made a quick stop by Fred's to get some chicken for the kids (they were reportedly starrrrrvingggg!!!) and we headed back to Salcha. Trip # 4 to Salcha about done...
After dropping off all the kids, we went to Jerry & Eleanor's house again. Some other family friends, the Kaz's, were there. Mike (the dad) plays banjo so he and Jon played some honkey tonk for awhile. We had a nice visit, this time for about 2 hours and headed home. By this time, I was exhausted from a busy day to we hit sack.
We had church on Sunday, which was good. The Pastor was focusing on Thanksgiving. We all had to make a list of 20 things that we were thankful for...with the thought that if we didn't thank the Lord for it, we didn't get it the next day or ever again. Try to only think of 20 things in life that you need! I mean, I need the basics: air, water, food, fuel, car, house, job and those that I love: my husband, my family, other believers, friends, the church. And then the other things in life that are tangible: my Bible, photographs, music, money. And then things that are also necessary: grace, love, faith, forgiveness, mercy, etc. It really puts things into perspective and makes you more thankful. After that, we made a 5 sentence "thank you" prayer for everything that God has given us. He put them in the offering plate and then held up two plates: one filled with our thanksgiving and one filled with our $$. He made a second good point that the plate with our thanksgiving means so much more to the Lord than the $$. Good sermon!!
After church, we had some moose bbq, decorated the xmas tree, took some pictures in front of the xmas tree. Jon worked on the youth group lesson for Wed and I worked on a cross stitch that I've started. We cleaned up a bit around the house too. Then, we went in the evening to visit Jon's folks. We had a quick visit over there so we could be home in time to watch The Amazing Race. I love that show! We watched the show and had a snack, then to bed.
I'm working today and need to get some lunch in me cuz I've got a bit of a headache. I have pictures of my nephew to share! Love you all!!!
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