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The Bunch Freeze Their Way Through the Arctic Front

Well, we survived the extremely cold weather of the past 3 days. The wind was extremely high and wind chills were in the single digits. Thank goodness it is over and back to shorts weather for the next few days. Today was gorgeous: light winds, blue skies, mid sixties....lovely. The forecast for Christmas is mid seventies and as long as a cold front doesn't come through bringing severe storms, it will be a great day for all the kids to play outside with their cousins.

We celebrated D's birthday and he was very surprised. We started with breakfast at an Old West Cafe, then I surprised him with a massage. Afterwards, we went to eat lunch a mexican restaurant he has wanted to try. Unfortunately, it was closed on Mondays so we instead went home and heated up leftovers and went to have mexican lunch on Tuesday. The final surprise for him was I had gotten tickets to Stars Wars Rogue One. The kids were excited about this as well. I am not even a little bit of a Stars Wars fan so I endured the forever long 2 hour and 13 minute show, but everyone else really seemed to like it. I think what turns me off so bad is that they are all out of order and my OCD nature likes everything neat, orderly, and where it is suppose to go. It bugs me to no end the movies are released out of order.  Save your breathe; I have had it explained several times why it is what it is, but sorry I still think it is stupid...release them in order.

We spent today making Christmas cookies and the girls had a blast. T not so much. His contribution was to cut a couple of sugar cookies and announce he didn't want to do this. He then went out to enjoy the nice weather.  I can't blame him really. After being stuck indoors the past few days, it felt great to be outside.

Don't worry she licked the spoon AFTER we were done.

UH OH! Cookie is in trouble.

T enjoying the nice weather by playing in our backyard.

Yep. We got our dog a coat complete with fur lined hood.

They were so excited to see Star Wars.

He wanted his usual Tres Leches cake.


D about to get his massage...thought it was weird I was dropping him off at someone's house.

The old west cafe made a great breakfast

Christmas at my parents house


Cookie plays games with her friends


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