30 January 2022

What a great week with some beautiful weather.  We are in full swing at the ranch gearing up for spring and I'm so excited, I love the last couple of months of winter and the beginning of spring!  Monday was fairly busy.  Phil went straight from the fire station Monday morning to Pima to teach medic class.  I took Jude to his Sound Beginnings music class.  He had so much fun, I only managed to get a quick photo of the top of his head as we were tapping the beat to music with an oversized stretchy band, we move so much there's not many opportunities to take pictures.  He really enjoys it and he is ready for a nap when we are done!  Arlo had his second COVID vaccine on Monday afternoon and even after realizing the last shot didn't hurt that bad, he still got all anxious and weird.  We stopped for an ice cream on the way home to reward him, even though he wasn't very brave.

We worked together on the goat enclosure for Family Home Evening when Phil got home.  Arlo thought this was "not fair" because it wasn't fun it was work.  Oh, well.  Arlo helped dad on the roof laying shingles, Helen and I worked on taking down the old fence, and Felicity painted.

  Phil worked at the fire station on Tuesday and I was supposed to be the hall monitor for seminary in the morning, but I totally spaced it!  In the evening Arlo had activity days at church and the girls went to the temple with the young women's group.  They had a great time and said they really enjoyed being at the temple.

The kids had a half day on Wednesday and I was very busy at work.  I'm grateful that Phil was coming home at just the right time and picked them up from the bus stop because I completely forgot about the early bus schedule.  Yeah, that's pretty indicative of my scatter-brained life right now.  Phil and the kids worked on the goat enclosure for awhile and in the evening I took Arlo to piano practice and Phil took the girls to see Wicked at Centennial Hall.  My dad had surgery earlier in the week, so I didn't want to ask my mom to babysit and because it was a school night I didn't feel right about asking any of the young women who are usually my go-to for this type of thing either.  Without someone to watch Jude and Arlo I opted to stay home and Felicity was able to invite a friend to use my ticket.  I heard the show was excellent.  

Phil worked at Pima teaching on Thursday and so it was just Jude and I at home.  He was especially challenging for whatever reason.  At one point he came into the kitchen where my "office" is and he had clearly stepped in something, which upon closer inspection was found to be poop.  I thought maybe the cat went outside of his box (which he NEVER does) and Jude stepped in it, but no, it was Jude's poop.  He had pulled a dirty diaper off the diaper pail (which I left there like a dummy) and proceeded to smear its contents into the carpet, on the walls, onto a selection of toys, and on the doors of his bedroom.  He got a bath, the room got a wipe down, and I'm happy that our poor carpet cleaner was able to get it out of the carpet.  Ick!  Then, while in a coordination meeting with other leaders in my directorate Jude decided that he was going to stand next to my desk and scream loudly.  Not because he wanted something or was hurt or was mad, but just because he could.  He seemed to find it funny when I tried to shush him and then screamed louder.  He had to have a time out in his room so I could finish my meeting.  

I was grateful to be off on Friday and started the morning helping Phil in the yard and then took our neighbor grocery shopping, which took FOREVER.  When I got home I got the kids off the bus and we worked on getting the fencing up for the goat yard.  We were able to get all the fence up along with a new gate.  We were up early on Saturday morning and what was suppose to be only an hour of work turned into all of the morning.  By lunchtime, however, we had everything finished and our goat enclosure was ready for our new goats.

In the afternoon we borrowed a friend's horse trailer and went to Sonoita to pick out our goats.  We decided to go with Alpine goats since they are decent milkers and the boys can be used as pack goats.  We decided on Cypress who is a smaller-statue bred doe whos mother is an excellent milker, Winona a bred chamoisee doe, Betty a black doeling, and a sundgau who the breeder will need to get us her name when she looks up her paperwork.  Felicity is planning to show Cypress this spring at the county fair and she (Cypress) and Winona should have their kids in early summer so our herd will be six.  We'll probably keep the babies if they're does and raise and sell any wethers as pack goats.  If you know anyone who needs goat milk, send them our way!

We loaded the goats up in the trailer and they made it home just fine.  They seemed to like their new yard, although the dogs were going a little nuts.  The dogs are very aware of what animals belong on the ranch and which ones don't, that's kind of their job, anyway, they were barking like crazy at the newcomers.  Eventually the dogs will realize they're part of the herd and that their job is to protect them, not scare them off.  Its pretty awesome, our dogs notice if we move one chicken from one coop to another.  I can't tell them all apart, but Maggie sure knows when someone isn't where they are suppose to be.  We are excited to get to add dairy goats to the ranch, I think they're probably the last animal we'll add.  We now have horses, turkeys, chickens, pigs, goats, bees, and the dogs.  I sure am proud of Two Jack Ranch.   We have plans to build a new coop, finish painting the house, finish the shop interior, and tear down a few old outbuildings on our property this spring.  We're also getting ready to install three new bee hives and raise some new chicks.  Our turkey hen has laid an impressive clutch of eggs and unlike last years hen, this mama seems to really be on top of it (literally) and is sitting on and tending her eggs.  We are going to let her try to hatch her own babies this year and if in a month or so she is unsuccessful we'll intercede and pop the eggs in an incubator.  I love when spring is on the horizon.

 Phil had to go back to work at the fire station on Sunday so I took the kids to church by myself.  Jude was a little bit of a handful, those few months between 12 months and nursery (18 months) is rough!  We had a nice Sunday and I went back to church at 2pm for a committee meeting for the Light of Christ event we'll be hosting at our building.  I am loving how the planning for that is coming along!

For those interested, I'm still working hard at making lifestyle changes.  On Monday my weigh-in showed a 3.4 pound loss, 42.6 pounds lost overall.  My week, however, has been challenging and I struggled more than  I have in the last fourteen weeks, so I am expecting it not to be as good.  I just have to dust myself off, forgive, and move forward with faith.

23 January 2022

We had kind of a weird week, everyone was home most of the week.  On Monday I took the day off since the kids were home for the MLK holiday, but Phil got stuck at work doing overtime since they are down a few firefighters.  Felicity and I worked on the goat shelter and pen.  It is taking longer than I anticipated, but it is turning out really well, we are very happy with it.  Our deadline for participation in the fair is fast approaching, so we need to make sure it gets done and we get our goats purchased.  In the afternoon I went to a friend's house to help her with her new cutting machine, which was fun.  I love sharing my passions!

My weight loss efforts continue, although I've seen a bit of a plateau over the last few weeks.  Monday was my weigh in day and I lost 0.40 pounds since last Monday for a total of 39.2 pounds lost.  While its been slower, I'm still headed in the right direction.  My clothes are fitting better and I've even been able to get rid of some "too big" things as well.  I really just have to take it one day at a time, just like any other addiction.  

Felicity stayed home from school on Tuesday as she still wasn't feeling well.  We got a call from the health office at Arlo's school half an hour after we dropped him off informing us that we needed to pick him up that he had thrown up, but also that one of his classmates tested positive for COVID and because Arlo is only 1/2 vaccinated he would have to stay home until the 25th.  I'm sure there were some details about testing him early and he could return with a mask, but I think I'll just keep him home the prescribed number of days and be done with it.  This way I'm not having to run him around to get him tested so he can go back a couple days sooner; that and with Felicity not feeling well, we decided to just hunker down in the house and keep everyone home.  When I asked him about "throwing up" at school, he said that the breakfast at school was "yucky" and he "spit it out" in the trash can, but reported to the teacher that he had thrown up.  

Phil was home on Tuesday.  He had some continuing education classes he needed to attend, so he listened to his medic refresher training on his airpods while he worked on the goat shed.  He managed to get the walls up, the siding on, and the roof on.  We worked on painting it, removing the existing fencing from what used to be a garden and Phil starting shingling the roof.  We have plans to build a new pig shelter and dog house as well.  I think Phil really enjoyed working on the project and honing his framing skills.   My friend Leona and I got together on Wednesday and walked in the morning which was really nice.  Phil worked on the goat stuff during the day and then taught fire academy in the evening.  All the kids stayed home from activities this week.  It meant things were a little more quiet as far as running back and forth to and from the bus stop and lessons and activities, but having everyone home made it hard to work and focus and then there's the mess they make in the house.  

 Phil was back at work at the fire station on Friday and I had quite a bit of running around to do including taking our elderly neighbor grocery shopping.  I took them to get their hair cut and to have lunch earlier in the week.  Helen and Arlo went to visit their dad Friday afternoon.  In the evening I finished painting the goat shed and gate.  All we need to do now is cut and hang some trim, finish putting shingles on the roof, hang the door, and put up the new fence and gate.  It sounds like a lot, but we're close.  It's going to be a really nice shelter and enclosure.  Jude has been kind of cranky this week.  He's getting a back tooth, an upper molar on the right side.  I think that is what has been giving him fits.  He's got a big personality and thinks he runs the show sometimes, but he's also a sweet boy who loves people.

Phil worked late on Saturday morning and so Felicity helped me with Jude since I had a training to attend.  We had a Stake Relief Society training that was held via Zoom, a member of the General Relief Society board conducted the training and it was a neat experience!  I took quite a few notes and walked away feeling uplifted and better equipped to serve the women in our Stake.  Phil worked on the goat roof for a little while when he got home and then in the afternoon he got cleaned up and we drove to Mesa to attend the newly renovated temple.  We participated in an endowment session at 3:15 and then we went to dinner and when we were done went back to the temple to do sealings.  The temple is beautiful and we found our way around with a little help as some things have moved.  When we were done doing sealings, we were invited to sit in the Celestial room of the temple for a while and I had a very profound feeling of gratitude sweep over me.  I remembered hours spent in that room praying for guidance, for comfort.  Praying to understand why things in my life weren't going the way I had envisioned them.  I had felt peace that truly surpasses understanding in that room.  I also had had many revelatory experiences in the Celestial room of the Mesa temple, including promises that I'd be married again, that I had another baby waiting for me, that the Lord would make all unfair things right.  I remembered those experiences on Saturday night while sitting in that beautiful room next to my eternal companion whom I love profoundly.  I have immense gratitude for the Lord's faithfulness in my life, for his constancy and love.  I am grateful to be reminded of just how much I've been blessed.

Phil attended ward council early Sunday morning before heading to work and I was attending the Vail ward's Relief Society meeting in Rita Ranch.  We had our presidency meeting following that and then I came home for lunch and to check in on the kiddos.  I was over on the east side of Tucson in the afternoon to attend the Single Adult ward's Relief Society meeting which was great.  When we were done I picked up Helen and Arlo and then headed back to our church building where I had a kickoff meeting for our annual Light of Christ event committees.  I'll be facilitating the committee who is planning the event at the Corona building.  I'm really looking forward to working with some awesome people in planning that community event which we have slated for early April.  It was good to be home after a long day and I'm grateful that everyone (except Phil) is home and everyone is feeling better too.  

16 January 2022

So I just want to point out that I'm posting my January 16th log entry on January 16th!  I have spent most of the day getting caught up on my blog posts and I am happily up to date again.  This week we were busy, but aren't we always?  Jude had his mommy and me music class, except this week it was a daddy and me class because Phil took him.  I heard they had a great time.  Monday was weigh in day.  It was also the twelve week mark so I took updated pictures.  I was down 1.6 pounds from last week for a total of 38.8 in twelve weeks.

 I took Jude to his one year well check on Tuesday while Phil did his medic refresher course.  Jude is doing great, the doctor was pleased with his growth and his development.  She said he was obviously very bright and very curious.  He interacted with her and showed off by waving, giving a high five and pointing at things.  At the end of the visit he had to get four vaccines.  I'm so proud of him, he of course cried, but as soon as we let him up and he got mama cuddles he stopped and waved bye bye to the nurse.   The doctor said he could have some Acetaminophen and advised me to rub "his juicy thighs"...I kinda love that she called them juicy.

I was super excited to walk with my friend Leona on Wednesday morning.  We haven't seen each other in person in almost a year.  We walked all the way up and back down Harrison between Arlo's school and Sahuarita road.  My Fitbit said I did more than seven thousand steps which is great.  I love Leona, we've been friends for more than twenty years and I want to try and make more time to do that sort of thing more often.  Arlo started back up with piano classes in the evening.   One of my new year's resolutions is to make sure the little turkey practices!

Phil was home on Thursday and in the afternoon we went to Home Depot to buy lumber and supplies to build a goat shelter and enclosure for Felicity's upcoming FFA project.  We need to get the enclosure up and ready for the dairy goats, we have to have them before the end of the month.  We bought $1200 worth of building materials, can you believe that?!  Everything, building materials especially, are so freaking expensive!  We had almost all of the materials loaded, in fact Phil picked up the very last thing, a bag of roofing shingles, and tweaked his back and went down pretty fast.  I felt bad for him I know he was hurting!  He ended up having to stay home on Friday because he was in so much pain.  Once we got home from the store Phil drove to Benson to look at a house with his mom.  I stayed home and finished my work day and then picked up dinner.  We had the missionaries over, I went simple and got a pizza and salad.  After the missionaries left we played "What Do You Meme?".  Its kind of like Apples to Apples except you match up pictures and phrases to make memes.  It was hilarious.  We decided that in addition to using the cards you could also make up your own phrase, that added a level of hilarity.   

Phil took it easy all day on Friday giving his back some down time, luckily he was feeling better by Saturday.  We were out early Saturday morning and I put the kids to work on some ranch chores outside and we started building the goat shed.  We got our table saw and miter saw set up in the shop and worked in there which was really nice because it was windy and kind of cold out.  I cut the wood while Phil worked on the foundation.  We worked all day and got the foundation and all the walls framed and we built a barn door.  Phil took the tractor and cleared and leveled the area where we are going to put them.  Since the sun had gone down I decided we could finish on Monday since everyone will be home again.  Phil and I went out to dinner after the baby went to bed.  We try to go out on "dates" whenever we have an opportunity and Saturday night was a perfect opportunity.  I sure do love him.  

Helen and Felicity weren't feeling great on Saturday and they weren't much better on Sunday so while Phil went into work early, the rest of us stayed home all day.  I just want to be careful, the girls both have friends that have had COVID in the last week and I just feel better staying home and not sharing any germs.  My Sunday was spent updating my blog and finishing a Christmas project.  

I made a resolution to complete one Christmas project every month.  I hate when December roles around and there are so many things I want to do and make but I just don't have the time, so I decided I was going to complete one Christmas project a month. This month I made new Christmas song books.  Every year at our gingerbread FHE we have a sing a long.  Several years ago I hodge-podged a song book together in three ring binders, but I didn't have enough of them, the binders were really bulky, and the music and copies could be better; we were singing this year and everyone dropped out because there was a streak missing from the copy in everyone's book.  Anyway, so this month I reformatted the cover and table of contents and I also added new songs from two different song books along with the Christmas hymns from the hymn book and Children's Song Book.  I formatted everything the same, adding my own page numbers and removing the original page numbers and then printed them, all 98 pages, on high quality paper.  I used my new book binder to bind them.  I am in love with the way they turned out!  I was able to make twenty of them which should be plenty for next years FHE!

09 January 2022

Monday was so hard!  We were eased into it a little bit since Felicity didn't have seminary until Wednesday, but it was still an early start to our morning.  We managed to get everyone to school on time, Felicity drove herself.  She's doing so great and she's only scared me a few times!

Monday was my eleven week weigh in and I was up a pound.  I didn't do anything last week that was different than any other week so I chalked it up to water weight or maybe muscle gain, or who knows!  I didn't let it bother me, I recorded it in my log and moved on with my day.  

The highlight of the day was taking Jude to his Pink Piggies music class.  The program that the older kids use for piano has a Sound Beginnings program for toddlers.  We sang and danced and Jude loved shaking bells and maracas.  It was a lot of fun and good exercise for me!

I had to go back to work on Tuesday, although in the morning I took a quick break to run Arlo to CVS to get his first COIVD vaccine.  He had himself all worked up and then when she gave it to him, he couldn't believe that it was so easy.  He was a little irritated with me that I was taking him back to school. 

Felicity and I got to go to our second Broadway in Tucson show on Wednesday.  We really enjoyed "My Fair Lady".  The cast was phenomenal and the costumes and sets were unbelievable.  It was so great; I liked it better than "Hamilton".  And, in case you're wondering, the obnoxious extra singer/dancer from "Hamilton" either doesn't have season tickets or didn't show for "My Fair Lady", either way there were no distractions.

Baby boy turned one on Thursday.  Can you believe that?  I can't.  Jude got lots of hugs and kisses and high fives on his big day.  In the evening we had birthday cake and Jude got to open his gift.  He was a little disappointed I didn't just turn him loose on the cake!  

At one year old Jude is 21 pounds and is 29 inches tall.  He walks and says "hi, Dada, and kitty".  He has eight teeth and loves to wave, give high fives, and smile at everyone.  He loves Felicity, but he's a mama's boy and loves to get cuddles.

Phil came home from work Saturday morning and spent a good part of his day conducting a convert baptism.  After the baptism we had his friend over for dinner and then the missionaries came by to teach his friend the next lesson in their discussions.  It was kind of a stressful day for me. 

My Sunday was so hectic.  We as a Stake Relief Society Presidency were making visits to the ward Relief Societies in our Stake so we can meet the sisters and make connections.  We made it to three Relief Society meetings and one Sacrament meeting.  Luckily Phil was home and was able to take our kids to church on Sunday because I didn't attend my own ward at all.  It was great to meet some new people and to serve, but I was happy to be home in the end and relax with my family before it all starts over again tomorrow.  

 

02 January 2022

Happy New Year!  Welcome 2022.  On Monday of this week I started my annual "purge".  I didn't get to do it last year because I was getting ready to have the baby, but normally at the beginning of the year I go through every room in the house and touch everything we own and get rid of things that we don't need, that don't fit, that we have too much of, whatever the reason, but I load up boxes to go to Deseret Industries and deep clean the house.  I'm off to a slow start this year, but I look forward to having the house purged of extra stuff.  I plan to move stuff out to the shop and reorganize and de-clutter as I go.

I also took Jude to get his first "real" hair cut.  If you remember, a few months ago Phil tried (and failed) to cut his hair.  I took him to Great Clips and the gal did a wonderful job, working fast; he sat fairly well for her.  He now looks like a cute little boy instead of a shaggy dog.

On Tuesday Felicity watched the baby for us and Phil and I went out to spend the day with family.  We met Salina, Sue, Zack, and Alyssa and her family and went to the movies in the early afternoon.  We saw West Side Story, it was the second time for Phil, but a first for me.  It was pretty good and I enjoyed it.  After the movie we had an appointment to do sealings in the Tucson temple for some ancestors.  Kirby and Brook joined us, it was nice to be in the temple with Phil, his mom, his siblings, and a couple of nephews.  When we were done we had dinner together before Phil and I had to head home.  It was a lovely day and I'm grateful for the blessing of being together.

Phil was working on Wednesday so Felicity and I hung out and continued the purge.  She was also working on crocheting a dinosaur for a friend.  I am really impressed with how far Felicity's crochet skills have come.  She wasn't 100% happy with how something looked on the dinosaur when she attached the tail, so she free-handed a cape and witch hat to cover up what she didn't like.  It was so cute and clever!  I told her she should make different outfits for it, like one of those QVC ducks with the seasonal outfits from the 90s.  She and I went to Hobby Lobby and then  Red Robin in the afternoon because I was craving a ava-cabo salad.  I let her drive to and from and if you're familiar with where we live you'll realize that meant she drove on the freeway.  She got on I19 at Sahuarita Road and off on Valencia.  She did great!  Speaking of food craving, I had my ten week weigh in and I lost 5.3 pounds!  I made it through the week of Christmas and lost 5.3 pounds, I'm so happy.  I'm just shy of 40 pounds lost.

Phil was home again on Friday and we were happy to spend the day together, knowing I was going back to work next week.  Felicity had her friend Kinsey over in the morning and I spent an hour or so making a cake for Jude.  In the afternoon we took Kinsey home on our way to take Jude for his first birthday cake smash photo shoot.  I know its a little trendy, but I couldn't help myself, I thought it would be really cute for Jude's first birthday.  

We stopped at Party City and got some balloons and then went to the Picture People in Buy Buy Baby.  We got everything set up and took some pictures of Jude all clean first.  Then she took a picture of the cake I made with the balloons and then I set Jude in front of the cake.  We were hoping to get a picture of him with the cake before he figured out what to do but we were unsuccessful.  As soon as he was within reach, his finger was in the icing.  I took the little cake topper banner off of it and he was easting fistfuls at a time, both fists, as fast as he could.  I can only assume he was trying to eat as much as he could fearing Mama was going to take it away at any minute.  

He had such a great time and she got some really cute pictures of Jude.  He eventually resorted to just putting his face down in the cake resorting in cake eyebrows.  He consumed quite a lot of that cake!  I was afraid he was going to throw up!

I was so happy with the pictures.  I can't believe that my little guy is going to be a year old next week.  I had to take him into the bathroom and give him a little bird bath in the sink.  We stopped for a bite to eat before heading home, although Jude was not that interested in dinner!

Even though it was New Years Eve, we didn't have plans to go anywhere.  Felicity was working on some art project that she was doing, the baby went to bed early presumably suffering from sugar crash, and so Phil and I were watching a movie in our room.  We just happened to still be awake when 12AM rolled around, so we wished each other a Happy New Year...kind of a perfect New Years if you ask me.

I was happy to have all the kids back home on Saturday.  We enjoyed our last couple of days together before Christmas break comes to an end.  On Sunday Phil and I volunteered to substitute teach in Primary I think it was a Valiant 9 class.  In the evening we had dinner with my parents.  *Deep breath* I don't know if I'm ready to go back to getting up early and being productive again...ready or not, here it comes!

26 December 2021 Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!  We had a great week at Two Jack Ranch.  The kids and I were home all week, Phil was home most of the week.  On Tuesday my Christmas present arrived, Phil bought me a new dishwasher.  My dishwasher crapped out more than a year ago and we've been handwashing dishes since then.  I hate washing dishes and so they tend to pile up.  I'm super excited to have a functioning dishwasher again.  Phil and Jude installed it for me Tuesday afternoon. 

Phil took the girls to the movies on Tuesday evening to see West Side Story.  I stayed home with the baby and worked to get the rest of my Christmas presents made, namely the pajama pants for the family.

I managed to not eat even a single Christmas cookie or goodie this year and I was rewarded with a 4.3 pound loss this week when I did my weigh in.  I'm down a total of 32.9 pounds and I'm really proud of that.  I'm praying I can keep it up, battling food addiction is not an easy beast to slay.   

We were up early on Wednesday morning and Felicity and I went down to the MVD to get her driver's permit.  She passed the the test online the day before so she was excited to be an official driver.  I let her drive us home from the MVD.  She did great!  I think because she's been driving around the ranch, driving the side by side, and driving up and down the road since she was 13 or 14 I didn't have to spend any time having her drive around parking lots.  We got in the car and she drove from Duval Mine Road and Abrego in Green Valley down Nogales Highway and Sahuarita road all the way home.  I can't believe she's old enough to drive, it really puts things into perspective.  Pray for our family!

In the evening we took the kids to Winterhaven to see the Christmas lights.  The lights were great, we went later in the evening so there weren't quite as many people.  Jude did well too, we stayed for about an hour and a half before we were done.  The kids enjoyed a lot of the displays, a random tortoise drawn sleigh was a favorite along with a yard dedicated to Christmas Vacation and one dedicated to The Christmas Story.  I love the creativity of some of the homeowners.  I'm also looking forward to the Christmas lights at the Mesa temple being back next year.

On Thursday we met my mom and Grandma at Cracker Barrel to celebrate Grandma's 95th birthday.  We had a great time.  When we were done Mom took Grandma home and then the girls conned her into taking them to see West Side Story again (can you tell they loved it?).  Phil and I took the baby home and enjoyed a quiet evening of Christmas gift wrapping.  Oh, my heavens, I never realize how many gifts I've gotten until I need to wrap them all!  We worked long into the night, but we were able to get them all wrapped.  

Our Christmas eve was quiet with a few last-minute projects.  I went to pick my Grandma up around 3PM and I met Phil and the kids at my parents around 5.  

We enjoyed dinner together and opening Christmas presents where the kids were spoiled as usual.  

Jude really liked the Mickey Mouse airplane that Nana and Papa got him.  When we got home we put all our wrapped presents under the tree, filled the stockings, and went to bed early since the plan was to open gifts at the butt-crack of dawn.

We were awake at 5AM and got all the kids up to open their gifts and enjoy cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate.  Jude was not very enthusiastic about being awoken at first, but he perked up pretty quickly.  The kids got way too much stuff.  

Some of the highlights include a Nintendo Switch for Arlo, a Karaoke Machine for Helen, and Felicity's gift rang as she was opening it (Phil couldn't resist), we got her her very first phone.  There were plenty of elated squeals for it being 5 in the morning.  Phil headed to work around 7, Helen and Arlo went to their dad's around 10, and the rest of us went back to bed!  Felicity and I enjoyed some new movies and our Christmas gifts after cleaning up the paper and packages.  I missed Phil while he was at work!

He was home again on Sunday and we went over to Kirby's house later in the morning.  We spent the day with our Comaduran cousins which was nice because everyone was there (with the exception of the one cousin currently serving a mission).  Jude was in cousin heaven, he was LOVING all the attention.  He's pretty much five years younger than all the other cousins so they enjoyed passing the baby around.  Phil and I enjoyed ourselves a lot.  I took a grand total of one picture, ugh!  I will repent and try to do better the next time we get together.  

It was the perfect ending to a great holiday week.