Merry Christmas, Yo!
I hope you all had a great Christmas!
Our Christmas was GREEN.
But we did have a brief visit from a lovely red cardinal who came to remind us that it was indeed Christmas Day, despite the lack of white stuff.
I hate that I have to include the neighbor's house in these bird photos, but what can I do?
I'm just grateful they're not standing out on their deck in their underwear or something weird like that.
No, they're not like that; they're actually nice decent people (ex-cop, you know....!)
Before I spill the beans and tell you what my exciting Christmas present was, I first would like to bore you with our pre-Christmas activities.
The suspense is killing you, ain't it?
So we took a weekend trip to WI to finally visit my mom. Since we moved, this was my third attempt to visit with her and finally succeeded. I regret that we didn't have time to see anyone else. I thought it would be an advantage living closer to her, and it is!, but the downfall is that these weekend trips, although more frequent, don't allow us much time to visit with everyone. I'm thinking it was better when we flew down once a year and stayed for a week and a half.
One thing that we did there was go to the Wildwood Park Zoo at night. Every year they put together a huge light display all over the zoo. They decorate all the fences and trees - it's really very cool!
You can walk around and/or take a drive through it.
It would be pretty cool if they went through all this trouble for Halloween!
Another place we went to was Jurrustic Park. It's been 20 years since I was there last and wanted to see it again. The guy who makes all this stuff came out and gave us his "tour". He told a lot of jokes explaining his creations (some of them inappropriate and not appreciated by me).
The suspense is killing you, ain't it?
So we took a weekend trip to WI to finally visit my mom. Since we moved, this was my third attempt to visit with her and finally succeeded. I regret that we didn't have time to see anyone else. I thought it would be an advantage living closer to her, and it is!, but the downfall is that these weekend trips, although more frequent, don't allow us much time to visit with everyone. I'm thinking it was better when we flew down once a year and stayed for a week and a half.
One thing that we did there was go to the Wildwood Park Zoo at night. Every year they put together a huge light display all over the zoo. They decorate all the fences and trees - it's really very cool!
You can walk around and/or take a drive through it.
It would be pretty cool if they went through all this trouble for Halloween!
Another place we went to was Jurrustic Park. It's been 20 years since I was there last and wanted to see it again. The guy who makes all this stuff came out and gave us his "tour". He told a lot of jokes explaining his creations (some of them inappropriate and not appreciated by me).
I think this is the same spider that Justin posed under when he was a kid.
Other than visiting our church family on Sunday, that was pretty much our weekend.
It went really fast.
One evening at home, the weather was pretty nice so I went for a walk in our neighborhood to look at the Christmas decorations.
Some of them were pretty impressive. This one here even had Christmas music playing outside.
And then there's my tree on my front porch.
Not very impressive, but I should get an "E" for Effort.
Peeka really had fun climbing around in my Christmas tree like a monkey.
This picture is blurry cuz she wouldn't stay still.
She was having too much fun.
CHRISTMAS MORNING!
Justin and PW dug through their stockings. I know it's almost pathetic that we still do that.....
but they like it.
PW flew down from Wasilla to spend Christmas with us, so we've enjoyed having her here this week.
Tomorrow she goes home already. Time sure flies.
Peeka really enjoyed her new scratching board.
As for me, I got some new stamps to play with and the new catalog to peruse through, thanks to Tammie!
And this is the part that I'm super super super excited about!
Me and PW both got an ancestry DNA kit!!!!!
I am so stoked about this!
I've been wanting to do this for a very long time, and Chuck would never get this for me, so this time I basically told him he was gonna get it for me.
I have been following a paper trail of my ancestry, but so far all I know is that I should be 1/2 Czechoslovakian, 1/4 Dutch, and 1/4 German. I have not yet been able to go back far enough to get out of those three specific countries,. So, for all I know, I am expecting to be 100% European. Anything beyond that would be a surprise to me.
As for PW, she will have some of Chuck's DNA in her, so I am curious to find out how much British she has in her, and how much of me is in her.
For some reason, she has high hopes of having some Scandinavian in her.
This is so exciting!!
I'm sure all my siblings are gonna wanna know my results if they knew I was doing this!
6-8 weeks is gonna seem like forever.
So, that's it for this time!
Have to go play with my new stamps now.
Happy New Year!
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