Poor Benson- So far he's the our kid with the most expensive mouth. Another round of crowns for this kid.
We had an Elf watch party, so of course we had to have spaghetti with syrup and poptarts :)
Miles and his kind heart wanted to put on a doughnut and hot chocolate stand to raise money for the giving machines. I admit, I had a bad attitude about it. One more thing for me to do, and all that jazz. It was cold, customers were few and far between, but his good friends Lincoln and Jaylee were sweet supporters. When all was said and done, we had enough to purchase a few things to donate, and my heart was softened.
Since we were doing Christmas Eve dinner with family, we did our Hawaiian dinner early. :)
School stuff: Lindy's class was studying ancient Greece and had a mini olympics. Lindy was so proud to beat everyone in the class (including the boys) in arm wrestling. Gwen made an awesome Grinch cake for her cake decorating class. Simple machines with Grandma and Grandpa!
Homestead and Extra Pics!
At the end of December, we got the hard news that the church would not be selecting Richie to be a seminary teacher. It was a hard season in many ways for our family. We had so many kind people reach out to reassure us that God was aware of our situation and offer help. At this point, this was the first time in the past 5 roller-coaster years of job drama that we didn't have a backup plan, but we had learned that we were full of grit and creativity, and that we'd figure something out.
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