Tonight was the tree trimming. We actually got the tree and put it up a few days ago, but because of the gingerbread party and the Christmas parade, it took us a while to get balls on it. This was Katy’s year to put on the star.
Category: Family
Today was the big gingerbread house decorating party. We (Elizabeth) had 20+ kids over for most of the afternoon. Of course we had the jumpy house up as well.
We were back in Starkville for Thanksgiving. My whole family was there. My uncle made it down from West Virginia, with his son Timothy who I haven’t seen in over 10 years. My aunt came up from Pearl. Of course my brother and sister and their families were there. The kids had a great time playing with everyone. We went geocaching. We found this cache, but didn’t find this one.
Being in Starkville for Thanksgiving, we went out to campus and got some MSU stuff and then went and rode the tractor. All the kids got to drive a bit. Katy drove it by herself. She even ended up driving it all the way back into the garage and parking it.
Luckily, no pictures of this one. We all went and did yoga (except Katy, she was busy). Except for all the stupid names for everything and the fact that I haven’t seen my toes for years (much less, touch them), it was actually fairly enjoyable. Sam loved it. I think it will be good for Margaret. They have kids and teen (and adults) classes that we may try, but we will most definitely try to go back next month when they do the family thing again.
Katy has been going to the teen/kids class and dragging her friends along with her. They all seem to think it is very cool.
We had our usual Halloween. The Van Meter kids parade in the morning. The block party, then about 840 trick-or-treaters.
This weekend we finally moved our stuff into the house in Tahoe. It is pretty much as done as it is going to get for a while. While we were up there, we hid a geocache. We walked from our house to Paige Meadows, met with a local dog named Rosie. She took her ball and hike with us. This is the same dog that took us for a walk about a year and a half ago. She stayed with us until I told her to go home, at which time she did.
I woke up early Sunday morning, looked out the window and saw a shooting star. Then i decided to go lay on the couch in the great room and watch the meteor shower. It was almost as good as being outdoors, but I was under a warm blanket on my couch.
We went to the annual fair at St. Mary’s school in town. The kids had a great time. Sam LOVED all of the rides and bouncy house-type things they had there.
We went to the zoo with Olivia. We managed to see almost all of the zoo in a couple of hours. We got there early on a cold foggy day, so it was pretty much empty. Some of the animals were much more active, others were nowhere to be seen.
We went to a party today where the Karaoke Ice cream truck was the guest of honor. The kids had a great time singing and dancing karaoke. We even got Pokie up there doing it and here is thestuff from the Karaoke Ice website.
There are a couple with Katy and Jenna from the Karaoke Ice website, here and here.