Well Christmas day is almost over, I've enjoyed reading all the posts from my family. I wish we all had time to update more often! Or were in the mood to...etc. I've really enjoyed my Christmas time with family so far (I'm not done yet!). Last Saturday was my Great Grandma Nettie's [dad's side] birthday party. I think she turned 89 but I'm not exactly sure. Anyway I finally got to meet my new second cousin Ethan, who Pa-Pa has nick-named "E.J." He is adorable. He has the longest baby feet I've ever seen! His dad is very tall though. I have yet to meet my only a few weeks old new second cousin Kenalie (not sure I spelled it right) but Grandma says she is a beautiful baby. Last Sunday was "Third Sunday" at Grandma Harris' house [mom's side]. It was a house full! I got to see my cousin Marlena who lives in Louisianna which was great. Then that evening we had the Christmas thing at church. We had a soup and sandwich dinner which turned out wonderful. I made a loaf of bread's worth of BLT's all cut in half and they were wiped out. Mom and Dad Ford came and they brought baked potato soup. Yes it was so good I had to change the font. Last night was Christmas Eve Dinner at Grandma and Pa-Pa Brown's [dad's side]. It was good stuff. Our ENTIRE family was there minus Kyle and Angie's bunch. So it was G-ma/Pa-Pa, 4 kids/spouses, 11 of 12 grands + 6 significant others, 1 of 4 great grands. We had a big dinner and then played dirty santa which I am not a big fan of, mainly because I ended up with a bop bag and a portable toilet. I miss the good old days when we drew names and bought or made each other presents with meaning and heart...not a big pile of dumb gag gifts we all have to find something to do with when we go home. Anyway... Tonight I am at Mom and Dad Ford's house and the four of us had dinner which was wonderful except for some song played and it made us sad and me and Mom cried (well she cried, I held it in which made swallowing food nearly impossible). But we stopped being sad and it was a good night. We got to talk to Heather...well I didn't, but it's ok cause I'll get to SEE her in about a week! Now we're watching the Nativity Story. On Friday (ooo that's tomorrow!) we'll get to see Manna and Nelson. We have not opened presents here, we are saving it for when they come! So Manna, the tree is staying up, the lights will still be twinkling, and the presents are waiting under the tree at Dad's request until you and Nelson get here.

I have to work Friday (eeww, that's tomorrow). But I planned something special for the employees who have to work along with me. I have zero patients scheduled to come in so I worked something up to keep it from being the longest day in the history of my life. I'm planning a "2-4 Special" snack for them to try.

Well I'm getting back in there cause they've started the movie back up. They got done talking to Heather's bunch. Anyway yeah, that's it for now. I'll most likely update again soon with a few pics.

It's soooo late but here I am up, awake (barely), knowing I'm doing to be so tired tomorrow...

Today my box came in the mail. My birthday present from Jon finally arrived! It was the Guitar Hero World Tour bundle complete with drum kit, mic, and guitar!!! Oh I had been waiting on it for almost a month! I waited patiently to open it cause we had rented a movie from the red box rental thingy and if we kept it more days it would keep charging us for it so we needed to watch it and get it returned. Well the moment finally arrived and I opened up the box and inside was another box, in that box was two boxes, one containing the guitar and the other containing the drums and microphone. I put them all together and then put the disc in the ps2. When I turned it on the opening screen came up and the bar slowly filled signalling that the game was loading. Oh the anticipation! The bar finally filled completely up...then...nothing. We waited. Still nothing. We looked at each other. We tried everything, cleaning the disc, cleaning the console, re-starting the playstation, reading the instructions, going to the online support website, but nothing worked. I apparently got a bad disc! It is under a warantee so I can get a new one but I will have to wait and just look at this neat drum kit but not get to play it for a while.

Arg.

I'm going to bed! Jon is playing guitar hero 3.

Here's Sam being sweet to D. I got this pic through the window and the clothesline pole nearly ruined the shot!

Here's the mess at the shop. Yuck! Persimmons are gross.

Here is the mystery plant. I've never seen one like this before and it's growing right out of the flower bed where the sword plants and the day-lillies are. These weird berries haven't been eaten by birds or anything so maybe they're poisionous? If anybody knows what this is, let me know.

The Hen has a lot of chicks. I love it!

These are not cool to step on. I hear they're not bad after the first frost though...

Sam says hi.