Thanksgiving Night at Jody's

Before the Warheads.....

After the Warheads....

How in the crap does Brett still look normal?!

Every one was either spitting them out or chewing them up really fast ha ha

That day was so fun. After everyone left from thanksgiving Alan and I went to Jody's and Brett's house to play card games along with Desi and Jeff. I learned a fun new game called I Buy and we also played Hand and Foot. During the game Jody brought out the kids Halloween candy and dumped it on the table, I think we ate half of it and saved all the "good stuff" for the kids, NOT! But to me that was funnest part of the whole day (besides bunco and donuts of course!). I love being with my family and hanging out playing games or watching movies. I wish we could all get together more often. But it will be exciting to get all together in a couple weeks to do crafts. I love my family and hope we never grow to far apart. LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Thanksgiving has come and gone, now what?

So now that thanksgiving is over people are decorating for Christmas and putting up lights and their Christmas trees and spending time with their spouse. I don't mean to sound bitter but doesn't it sound pointless to decorate if your not even going to be home for the holidays? That is my debate. I'm the only one home all day every day and we will be gone from the 19th to the 4th of January. So I don't see a reason to be festive. People are telling me to decorate and put up a tree but should I really if I'm not going to use it? What would you do?
I can't wait for Alan to be done with school so we can start traditions of our own. Give me some idea's of what traditions you guys do for the holidays. What are your favorites? I've got to figure out some thing to get Alan and I into the spirit of Christmas.
As you all know Alan and I have been through a lot in the last month and have lost a lot of what used to be a normal life for us. We've had to change the way we think about life, marriage, money, children, the blessings we've received, and some times we can't wait for Christmas to just be over. But it all makes you think, what is Christmas really about? With all the materialism of the giving of gifts surrounding Christmas, it is important that we look at the deeper spiritual meaning of this celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and examine the gift of God to all humankind in the coming of Christ. Gifts are good because it represents the giving of gifts from the 3 Wise Men but I doubt they stayed up all night and raced and pushed people in the stores to be the first one to get the really expensive gift they wanted for Him. Who is it really for? Is it to max out our credit cards and make a new years resolution to pay them off? Is it for our kids so they can have what all the other kids are getting? Or is it for all the food we get to eat? What about Christ? What do we really do to remind ourselves of what he has done for us and for others? I know myself that I've never really done a whole lot. I know for a few years I would get together with the ward young woman's and give a turkey dinner to a poor family in the ward. But never really did anything after that. I don't even read the story of Christs coming to the earth and the path that had to be made to get him here. But I'm going to challenge myself and you to do some thing that will really give the true spirit of Christmas.