Human Wrecking Balls

I know BLOG’s are mostly posted and read by women so this is a man’s posting. I have discovered the greatest TV show. It is called Human Wrecking Balls. These two brothers completely destroy something like a hotel room, a car, a manufactured home, an airplane, or an office. Man versus Man-made – it is totally awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREPW_ljixc

Merry Christmas!

A couple weeks ago, Andy and I had a Christmas party. We invited several couples over and we had a lot of fun. We played some games and ate a lot of food. One of the games we played was a gift wrapping game. Couples had to wrap a present together each using one hand. It was fun to watch as the couples struggled to cut the paper, tape and fold the paper and add a ribbon. We also had an ornament exchange and we played Family Feud. How could we not?

It has been fun to decorate our house this year since we have so many pine trees, holly berries and pine cones in our own back yard. Oh, and it doesn't hurt that we have a fireplace and mantle. Even better than that, Andy figured out how to get our fireplace to work. He had to get a gas tank and everything.



We got our Christmas tree on the day after Thanksgiving Day so Emma could help us decorate it. I must say, I was very disappointed when we saw the prices of the trees. I thought Christmas trees were only $80 and up in Hawaii!!! With all the zillions of pine trees around here not only was I shocked that the trees were in the $80 range, but there is one prevailing kind of Christmas tree--Frasier Fir.

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Nativity

Last weekend, our church had a live Nativity scene in front of the church.
A few of the old ladies really get into it and they have, over the years, prepared quite an elaborate stable and manger scene as well as some very nice costumes. They asked Andy and I if we would be Mary and Joseph last Friday night.

We were quite flattered and while I had some serious reservations about standing out in the cold for two hours, I must admit that it wasn't that bad. We each wore several layers of clothes under our costumes and it was probably in the 50s. The best part is that we got 3 Nativity honks from cars passing by.

You can't open that until Christmas

A bunch of people at work watch the TV show The Office each week looking for our favorite things to mention the next day. Last night on The Office Jim wrapped Dwight's desk, chair, computer, and office supplies as a gift and told Dwight to not open the gift until Christmas. I came into work early this morning and wrapped some gifts for a few friends.