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December Update

Michelle is here- Yay!! But things have happened before she got here. Like:

My 30 birthday! It was so cool; I had Kevin over, who has the same b-day as me and is my star twin, and Angie came too. We played games and then did a little service project- It was great!

Then of course, Christmas happened. Okay, Michelle and fam got here before that. It has been totally great having them stay with us. The kids are hilarious. I have been turned on to Sculpey, so watch out! I'll soon be mass producing lots of nonsensical knickknacks that I prolly couldn't give away if I wanted to.

Christmas Eve was tons of fun with my sister and brother-in-law and their families. We sang carols and read the Christmas story, and ate lots of food. Then my little family drove to my sister's house to play Rock Band 2 into the wee hours of the morn, well it was only till 11:30. We had to get home before Santa stopped by!

So much fun has happened and it isn't over yet. I have tons of pictures that I need to post, and one of these days, I'll do it!

So Sunday night I was in a church musical, well festival of music I should say, because it didn't include dancing and random bursts of song. It was a about Christmas, with narrations about Christ from the Bible and also the Book of Mormon. It was really neat to be a part of the choir for this. We had an awesome director, who went to school for that. He happens to be an albino too, which is pretty neat in itself. He is very strict about being at rehearsals and visualizing sound and breathing and the like. We were no Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but we were pretty good. I wish I could have sat in the audience and listened. But then I would have had to deal with my unruly son, like my husband, and missed half of it. There were a few solos and a quartet by some young men that was so awe inspiring. It made me wish that my boys would grow up to love to sing. It was beautiful, especially because of the theme. I happen to be on the Stake Music Committee, only because I make all the advertising posters, which is like 7, for each event, to go up into 7 different church buildings in our Stake, or area. I was a little disappointed that there weren't as many people there as there should have been considering the amount of time and effort that I put into, I mean we, put into advertising, but I would rather everyone have a seat than people having to stand for an hour and a half. It was really awesome though. Too bad you guys missed it (if you weren't there) ;p

Okay, so my birthday is coming up. But not just any birthday... it's the big 3 0! Why is that such a momentous number? Is it really mid-life crisis time? Come on all you 30-somethings out there. How was your 30th?

I self-tagged, again, from my friend Kelli's blog-

My rock star name: *Henrietta Nissan*
{First pet and current car}

2. My gangsta name: *Caramello Sugar*
{Favorite candy bar and favorite cookie}

3. My detective name: *Blue Moorfish*
{Favorite color and favorite animal}

4. My Star Wars name: *Olsev of Tylenol *
{First three letters of last name and first two letters of first name then the word "of" then a medication you are on}

5. My superhero name: *The Brown Water* (Ewww!)
{2nd favorite color and favorite drink with "The" in front}

6. My Nascar name: *Evelyn Aleksandra*
{First names of your grandmothers}

7. My "lover" name: *Sunflowers Chocolate *
{Name of your favorite perfume/cologne and your favorite candy}

8. Witness-protection name: *Elizabeth Lester*
{Mother's and father's middle names}

Okay, so it's really late, but my friend sent me this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
It is incredible, coming from an artist like myself, so I found a little info on elephants... yes, elephants. Curious yet? Watch the link.

Elephants have a well-developed system of communication that makes use of all of their senses.
The brain of the elephant is larger than any other land mammal and it is located in the back of the skull well away from the forehead.(However, in proportion to the size of the body, the elephant brain is smaller than the human brain. Just in case you started feeling a little inferior.)

Okay so the computer is now upstairs in my mom's room, so I might not read and post as much as I do now. But we are moving the playroom upstairs to coexist as a guestroom/playroom. Don't worry Michelle, we'll have the toys picked up and put away before you get here. It's warmer upstairs anyway. I went to Wally World to get some pictures taken of the kids. I did it last year for Erick, so I wanted to be fair and take one of the both of them to send out in Christmas cards, but also to frame and hang up. Yeah, I got a good hook up for that. Anyway, the little lady that was helping me was so nice, but when we finished the session, the camera card wasn't reading any pictures. After pressing the same buttons a lot, we decided to do a new session and use a new digital card. Which was slightly sad because there were some great poses. So she kept telling me how good my boys were the first time. Then the second session started and they knew what was going on. Finally I was happy with them and she went to upload them to the computer. But it had the same problem as before. I thought, there is no way I'm going to get them back on the table, plus I'd just noticed that Erick was starting to leak from his diaper-- come on kid, he drinks like he lives in the Sahara and pees enough to end the drought in GA. But then the little lady blew in the USB plug and WHA-LA! It worked. So I got the best of both sessions without totally breaking my purse. They are so cute.