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We had the opportunity to go tubing at Bogus Basin, a ski joint, in Boise. We had a great time. By “we” I mean, Dan and I, my niece Lacey (8 yrs) my other niece Tori (13 yrs), my sister Glenda, my other sister Mardi and her hubby Jim and one of their two sons, Jack, (age 3 yrs). Josh (1 yr) got to stay with Grandma and Grandpa for the afternoon, you have to be three years old to go tubing. The way it works is, you make a reservation (early on, like three weeks early!), for a two hour block, we were from noon to 2. They only sell 100 tickets per two hour block. So, it was busy but not too crowded where you spent a lot of time in line. The cost was $12 for adults, kids $7 so, a little bit more than going to a movie. The weather was great, sun shining, not too cold (of coarse we were all bundled up) but the wind would pick up every so often and blow ice chips rite into your face- painful!
We had a great time. Dan had his video camera so he got some good footage. He has the video on his bog, check it out. Fun times with family!
We went to the lodge afterwards for some hot chocolate! YUM!
Can’t go tubing in Ventura…

On Christmas Eve my mom makes crepes for to eat. We have eaten the crepes with brown sugar, syrup, bacon, cheese, jams, shrimp, scallops… really almost anything. I personally love them with brown sugar, if you put the brown sugar in rite away it melts… YUM!

My mom flipping the crepes! She is really good at it!

This was the first time my nephew Jack has had crepes. He loved them with bacon, cheese and syrup (not all on the same crepe).

Ok, we finally got our new couch on Friday. They took the old one away and brought in the new one. It look s good, seems dark, but only because we had the light one for so long!

Conversation in car this afternoon. Dylan is in 2nd grade. I am teaching him the state capitals.
Sara: What’s the capital of Oregon?
Dylan: Salem (like the cat on “Sabrina…”)
Sara: What’s the capital of Florida?
Dylan: Tal…
Sara: Good, it’s one of those Native American words, it’s long.
Dylan: Taliban?

I was laughing so hard, I almost had to pull over!

Dan & I got a real Christmas Tree and decorated it. Even though we are leaving on the 22nd for 9 days, we still wanted to have one up for a while. Dan’s sister will be staying here while we are gone so we won’t come home to a dead, drooping tree with needles all over the place.

Today I took the kids I pick up after school to Kumon, a tutoring type place near the $.99 Store. They go once a week, but do “homework” from there every other day of the week!
Today we went rite after school, because it’s not as crowded at that time. Everything was going fine, all was calm until this lady came in with her 7 year old twins, they go to the same school as “my kids.” The girl came in and got to work, the boy, Matthew, on the other hand… came in loud and tromping his way through the place.
The first thing the kids do is turn their work and get the new packets for the upcoming week. Matthew got his new packets. He went through the new packets and decided he wasn’t happy. He tried to give back the packets he didn’t want to the guy, Randy, behind the desk. Randy tried to explain that Matthew had to take the packets and do them in order. Matthew was not having it, he wouldn’t take the packets and began to cry. His mother by the way was about 2 feet away talking to the lady in charge of Kumon! Finally she realizes there is a problem and takes Matthew outside to “talk” to him. Matthew came back in, pissed, sits down and gets to work. His mom came in to get the packets he didn’t want, Matthew never apologized to Randy…
It was pure comedy!

Dan & I were looking forward to finding out the sex of our baby before Christmas, but alas is won’t be working out that way. The doctor doesn’t want to do the ultrasound until I’m 20 weeks (half way). Since my doctor is going on vacation, then Dan & I are going on vacation we won’t be able to find out until January 6th! Bummer… I guess we’ll find out when the time comes, if we can even find out then.