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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 1:18 am
That sounds like a lot of fun, Bisc. I'll have to look for it. It looks like everyone had a pretty good holiday! Kearie, congrats to your daughter, your future sil, and your whole family! Happymom, I was pretty impressed with our kidlets (not just Caleb and kota but all the nieces and nephews too.) They'd been pretty well prepared that Christmas would be a bit tight this year, not only less from their own parents, but little from the aunts/uncles. Last night I heard the older kids talking about how they had gotten what they wanted, but what really got me (in a happy way) was that none of them had asked for anything really over the top. Today was lunch with my in-laws. We had a nice time with them. The kids showed off some of their new things and Caleb even played them a couple songs on his guitar. Nieces came over for a few hours too, they used their ipod gift cards and got some more music (lol, my 5 year old niece spent $15 on Alvin and the Chipmunk songs.) Told Darren I was quite happy the ipods had headphones, lol. I'm taking Kota tomorrow to buy her new clothes with her Christmas money. She's all excited about it and can't wait to go. Nieces will be back to spend the night since Darren's going out of town again and I need to figure out something to do with them.
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 2:23 am
Hey Kearie- I know a good wedding photographer lol! Congratulations!
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 2:25 am
Oh and Wargod- happy half birthday on Christmas! We share that....
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 2:29 am
Whew Wargod! You were worrying about that lunch date and all the cleaning & stuff. Sounds like it came off beautiful. Have fun shopping with Kota tomorrow. Bet she and the nieces spend the evening showing off the clothes and figuring all the ipods.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 3:33 am
Oh, right Meggie, it is six months til our birthday huh? Heh, I'm not much for celebrating my birthday but I'd be super happy if it was the end of June now and wasn't freezing my butt off! Heh, Bisc, the kids had those ipods figured out as soon as they opened the boxes. Middle niece needed a bit of help, but she got the hang of it pretty quickly. Tonight they learned how to use their gc's to buy music and download it to their ipods. LOL, I have very broad tastes in music. Always have...I love 80's pop and heavy metal and country, and classic rock and and and.... Darren's just as weird with his tastes, though he never got into the harder heavy metal that I did. The kids kinda split. Dakota loves the 80's pop and some rock and country and the newer kid stuff, Caleb loves classic rock and heavy metal. So now Kota's ipod has Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, Bon Jovi and Duran Duran. Setting her up was pretty easy...she didn't even buy any songs yet, just picked what we already had in the ipod library (we'd bought her Jonas Bros and Hannah for her birthday.) Caleb though didn't want to look at our ipod library, he said it was "old people" music. I had to laugh when the first four songs he wanted (Iron Man, Enter Sandman, Smoke on the Water, and uh....dang, what was the other one?) were all ones we already had. In the end, he picked 12 songs out of I think 20 he ended up putting on his that we already had. Old people music my foot! Poor kidlet was a little crushed he couldn't shock me with some of his choices!
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 5:08 am
hehehe, poor kidlet is listening to non-shockable old people's music. I must confess, on Christmas the two young guys were all happy & excited. I saw my first idpod! They're rather tiny critters, no wonder I never saw one before to know what they even were. The other younger kid got some fancy digital camera. I was so kicking myself that I hadn't brought my dig camera I can't figure out. Still, I sure learned a LOT of gizmos that day. I DO have a cd of Alvin & the Chipmonks or the Ponderosa Christmas music, if you ever need to borrow.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 5:15 am
It was so sweet, when the older (10th grade) young man who helped walk me to the icy door LIT his cellphone (like a flashlight) when I couldn't get the key in the lock, because I forgot to leave the porch light on.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 11:20 am
Kearie, congrats! She looks SO happy! Thanks for sharing the moment with us through the pics! Yes, so glad you had a good Christmas and that your mom is ok! Bisc, I'm glad you are safe! You reminded me of one Christmas when I was young, we were in upstate NY sliding down backwards in a car on a long hilly street! Thankfully, we didn't hit anything! War, lol!-"old people music!" I am sure you are having a great time shopping today! Her dollar will probably go further today than your dollar would have before Christmas! The gift of time together is such a great one!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 1:34 pm
We haven't left yet...one of us is still in jammies and playing with toys. Grandma gave the kids $25 gc's yesterday and she told them they were to buy something they really wanted but didn't get for Christmas. Kota hit the jackpot and found 3 Polly Pocket sets on clearance. She's been busy all morning playing. We'll be heading out in a few though. Figured out what we're doing tonight. Sis bought the girls these weaving/knitting machines to knit scarves and stuff and we're going to try to figure out how to use them, lol.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 5:14 pm
Bisc, you called it, lol! Kota and I went out to a store I never go to, D.D.'s Discounts. Sis and my friends love this store, you can get the best deals, name brand clothing, and really cute stuff. I've been there once and don't really like it cuz it's one of those places you have to dig through all the racks and I hate shopping like that! It hasn't changed at all since the first time I was there, still lots of digging and very very busy today, but tons of great deals. Kota ended up getting six pairs of jeans, a pair of work out pants (softball practice will start soon,) and five shirts for $61! I also picked up a couple pairs of jeans and two shirts for Caleb cuz the prices were too good to pass up. We picked up my nieces and came back home and she's been trying on and modeling clothes for them since then. Now I'm not sure what to do, she has $20 of Christmas money left, which we'd originally insisted she use for clothes. But she has what she already had plus all the new stuff and really doesn't need anymore (also doesn't need anymore shoes, underclothes, socks, jackets, etc) so not sure if I should insist on more clothes or let her spend it on whatever.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 9:49 pm
hehehe Wargod, what did I tell ya? I was a girl Kota's age, once upon a time back in the Middle Ages! Modeling new clothes takes LIKE! forever. LIKE really. Happymom ~ "You reminded me of one Christmas when I was young, we were in upstate NY sliding down backwards in a car on a long hilly street! " Cripes! Think I'm going to have nightmares tonight. THAT is beyond scary! I can just visualize. Sliding frontwards down a hill I've seen people do, honking horns & waving people away. But BACKWARDS seems like something out of a Stephen King movie.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 10:01 am
Teachmichigan ~~ The Gingerbread Train pattern I have is fairly easy and its from a Family Circle magazine dated Dec 16, 1980 (whoa!! ages ago!!) I used to do it every year for all my neices and nephews and then got away from it for at least 10 yrs, now I have my own son, so I attemted it again.. It really wasn't too bad Heres one I just googled that looks just as easy.. Gingerbread Train or they offer pre-made kits at the grocery store...but those are never as good as homemade 
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 11:33 am
We used to make the Kit Kat House when the kids were young. Now middle daughter makes them with her kids
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 12:04 pm
War! Wow wow wow! 12 items for $61 and 6 of them were jeans!!! Awesome! I'm so excited for her and you! Bisc, it was probably worse for my parents. They stayed calm so I guess that kept us kids calm too. We were trying to get to our relatives' house. We had to drive many miles to get to the other side of the hill and their country road which wasn't so steep on that side. I do remember being glad to get into their warm safe house! What a beautiful gingerbread train! That kit kat house looks so easy! I miss my kids being little! They would have loved those!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 1:07 pm
Thanks, Cinnamon. Do you suppose I could use graham crackers w/their "templates" and then the royal icing? From what I've heard from others who do gingerbread houses, the icing is the "key" to having a successful ginger-anything. I'm bookmarking the site...next year, the nephews and I will play! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 1:41 pm
Thats the kind of car drive that would make you sick! Dakota was thrilled with all she got. I was rather happy too. I don't really like the store but I'll go back cuz the prices are too good to pass up and my kids grow like weeds, lol.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 3:08 pm
Ultimate Christmas surprise!!! The quality is horrible (IMO) but the emotion is great! And I do not know where Ryan learned those dance moves!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4hZs9XMGF4 I wish my DH started it a few seconds earlier, so you could tell the mood was calm and quiet. Starts off awfully fast. Also wish he filmed it from Ryan';s front side. Oh well, you get the excitement anyway!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 3:53 pm
aahh too cute! I miss Christmas when Dylan was younger. Although he did get thrilled to see his guitar in the backseat of my car this year.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 4:15 pm
too cute!!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 4:28 pm
LOL Julie. What kind of guitar Pamy?
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 11:17 pm
Julie, that was TOO cute & funny! Meanwhile Abby is busily roaming around checking things out, totally unconcerned about the WII (loved that snowglobe segment). Great Youtube. Thx for sharing!
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 8:04 am
"You better not be giving this to anybody!" Oops! I want to know what the heck the dog is wearing.
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 9:04 am
"You're girlfriend is gonna get this" That was the BEST line! LOL
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 9:12 am
The dogs are wearing Christmas collar things. Red & green court jester type things with a jingle bell at the end of each triangle...
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 9:17 am
After Chris says "Your girlfriend is gonna get this," I like how Ryan adds, "I don't even have one."
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