THE CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN!!! (25 days left)

So hello everyone.  It is December!  We are now started on the Christmas countdown!  And I’m happy to announce that it is getting cooler outside.  It is so funny to see us all wrapped up in our blankets and not wanting to lie on the floor because it is so cold. It’s just because it has been raining the last few days.  So that is always nice.  But during the day it gets plenty hot.  So you are all probably jealous because I’ve heard how the weather is treating you over there.

Thank you all for your updates on the turkey trot and all that is going on there. I was totally going to get up and run on thanksgiving but you know how that goes.  I just decided that I would wait until next year haha. 

Also I am very proud of all of you who have completed your Christmas preparations.  Way to be diligent! Haha  also thank you for telling me what things you are making….if anyone wants to know what present they are getting you can go ahead and email me…cause I probably know. But really though I appreciate it and you are all so creative.  Our family could probably put Pinterest out of business J.

But as far as the work is….its going.  Our whole house was sick this week so that was a bit of a struggle.  No one felt too much like working but you have to.  Just buy some vitamin Cs and take ibuprofen all day long haha. It’s not too bad.  Even the long days go pretty fast once you just get out and get working.

The past time of the kids here is spider fighting.  It is soooo creepy but super interesting as well.  They all catch these massive spiders and they fight them. They keep them in little matchboxes.  Inside the matchbox there are several rooms so that they can keep like 10 at a time. And these are little matchboxes. But the spiders kind of just curl up and sleep when they get put in there. But they are super big and the kids just hold them and play with them like no big deal. They all bring their spiders and then they have a little stick and they put a spider at each end of the stick and they just go towards each other and fight. It’s really cool. I’ll probably hold a spider before I come home. Just because if they can all do it then I can to.  Sister Raterta isn’t scared of them so she will hold them too. But I just watch.

We had an amazing Sunday yesterday.   It was the primary program. I almost died because it was so cute.  I promise it was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.  They were all in matching clothes. Little white dresses with pink jackets and flowers in their hair. And they all had a little make up on.  And the little boys all had blue boy ties.  And they do all their parts and singing in English.  I’ll tell you what.  The primary program probably brings the best spirit out of all the sacrament meetings.   I know you all know (Dang for some reason Taylar’s email didn’t send the rest of her letter.)