Post Christmas noos....notes from Sara and Gri

Hi all,

We are having some mild weather today (12°) after some below zero weather last week and some mighty winds more recently. 

My kids are off playing basketball at the gym in Dot Lake with Tom Geyer and the other young people.  I am taking advantage of the quiet to write to you. 

We are having a week or so break from school.  I’m looking forward to this time to do some catch up on housework and bookwork. 

Kimberli and Seth took the young people and their own children out caroling on Christmas Eve.  The boys rigged up one of the horse wagons with hay bales and lights.  The caroling was rather uneventful until they were on their way home from ATR and somehow the sleigh tipped over.  Everyone went into the snow. 

 

All this week, the high school girls with Kim, Kimberli, and Garth have been fixing baked goods for a bake sale.  It was a nicely done bake sale with piles of things to buy.  The proceeds are to go for our New Year’s Eve fireworks.  After everyone had bought to their heart’s content, Tommy auctioned off the last of the plates, baskets, and pies.  It wall all pretty fun. I think they got like $600 which is pretty good...we will have some nice fireworks...

Oh, and SethJepsen  had a raffle to sell a pie rack that he’d made in forge class.  Jannis Blohm got it and by the pic u can see she was pretty stoked about it!

All this was followed by some games, and, eventually, we got to the square dancing.  Tom and Carolyn are the square dancing teachers with some expert help from Bro Rus. 

Stephen arrives on Monday with his fiancee. 

Rus and Millie have gone to Anchorage for the weekend. 

Bethany C has gone home to see her mom and brothers over the holidays.  Kenny is in Iraq installing generators.  He works something like four months and then comes home for one month.

May has been in touch off and on, having a good time with the Blessington bunch. She and her aunt Karenza from Gibraltar are making plans for the family reunion this coming March...May is pretty excited about it, since she will meet family members she has never seen before, from Argentina and of course her aunt Karenza whom she has never met...

Relaxing days at home, a change from the regular rat race...will be giving Rob some school though, too many out of the classroom is not good for him. He is having a good time, riding the horse wagon and hanging out in the Tab with friends or just with his brother on the xbox....

Have a great weekend.  Take care,