Hey, it's almost 2011. Weird, eh?

We've survived the holidays so far....

Meghan turned 14 and we still let her live here. :0) Mostly she's a good kid, just going through the "I'm fourteen, so I'm braindead" phase of her life. But, we'll survive it, I'm sure. We didn't have a huge celebration, Ry and Sue were here and we had a party with some friends.

On Christmas Day, we tried, unsuccessfully, to eat ourselves to death. We had a huge Christmas dinner with three other families, we fried two turkeys, smoked one and cooked a huge ham. THEN, as if that wasn't unhealthy enough, we had fried potatoes, fried sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and au gratin potatoes as side dishes. I did make green beans, but really, who wants green beans when there are au gratin potatoes? We're still eating leftovers and we're totally sold on the turkey fryer thing. I don't even LIKE turkey and I thought it was good.

We got family gifts of a Wii and a new television, so mostly Meg got presents under the tree(her brother sort of went overboard). She got a new iPod, so that was the highlight of the day for her, I'm sure. Sam and I put a bow on the TV and he pretended to be surprised when he opened the Wii. Mostly it was nice just all being here together, we miss the kids when they're in AZ.

Last night, my Jordanian friend Salah made us an epic feast of middle eastern food. Amazing yummy food, best thing I ever did was let that guy live here for a bit. Tonight, we took Sue out for her first taste of Thai and had another epic feast. I think I'll stick to lettuce the rest of the week.

Ryan and Sue are on their way home now...... I sure wish they lived closer. Everyone cross your fingers, toes and anything else that he can get into law school in CA somewhere. Otherwise, they might be having my grandbabies in some other state, which would be tragic.

We STILL have extra people here..the plan now is that they will be leaving right after New Years. I hope so...I'm anxious to get my house back.

We're off on a roadtrip tomorrow to ....actually, we don't know...haven't decided. Apple is closed until the 3rd, so Sam is off this week. We're gonna look at a weather forecast and find someplace where it isn't raining.

We are still alive!

I don't have time to really post. It's Christmas, I live on a piano bench. If I could figure out how to play and blog at the same time, we'd be set. Not that that excuses me from the months of silence before that. Anyway, thought we'd let people know that we're still alive out here.

We did halloween. I have pics, but they must be on the other computer. SO....

We have a family of 7 living with us for the moment. Mostly good kids: stinkin' cute 18 month old that gives me a big grin and says "hi" every time he sees me, a 2 year old with epic lungs who uses them fairly regularly (and not in a good way..yeesh), a 4 year male drama queen who makes any fit thrown by Meg over something stupid seem like nothing, an 8 year old who is ALWAYS hungry, and a 10 year old who is in the burp-fart-spit stage of his life. They are relocating here from Minnesota...who could blame them...but things aren't going as smoothly as they'd hoped. It's been a month, I'm ready to have my house back now.

We had Thanksgiving at the beach with three other families. Sam took lots of pictures, but as I haven't actually seen any of them yet..they'll have to wait for another post.

Ry and Sue are coming for Christmas, which we're excited about, of course.

Sam and Meg and I have been passing around colds for a couple of months. Sam's coming off one now, and I think I've got it. Perfect timing since the Stake Christmas program is next Sunday and I have some kind of rehearsal every day this week. I'm going to go find some drugs....