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Yes... don't worry people, I'm still posting... I've just been CRAZY busy lately... last week I worked 54 hours, I was pretty tired by the end of the week, but hey...big paycheck. Anyway, this week has been crazy too, but in a good way. Monday of course was Christmas Day. After church, we went to Joel's and played games and stuff... then we went to Wayside for Christmas Dinner... I must say, my mom definately makes a better turkey dinner (and its cheaper too!! It cost us $20 a person to eat there on Christmas Day...ouch.)! Then on Tuesday was the annual Boxing Day Conference in Cambridge... good times all around... found some great deals in the mall there too! Tuesday night we slept over at the Feijer's and then went shopping again on Wednesday... then we went home and I had to work until 9:00 last night... I have a day off today and then I have to work tomorrow from 4-9 then I have another day off on Saturday, so I'm getting spoiled! Oh yeah, I'm supposed to put a plug in for New Years Day... All are invited to join us on New Years Day for our annual gym/skating day. The Arthur Voaden gym will open from 1:00-4:00 and then skating is in Port Stanley from 7:00-10:00. All are also invited to join our youth group for our New Years Eve party at VanDyk's house... if you need directions or anything, leave a comment and I'll e-mail them to you. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and will have a blessed New Year!

Caroling/ Gift Exchange

Last night, we had our traditional caroling/ gift exchange night with the young peoples. It was a lot of fun! While caroling to the seniors, I had to wonder how many of them actually enjoy the singing… I guess it all depends on who is in the group… (whether or not the group can actually sing!!). We had a pretty good group… and the best route…lol … we went from St. Thomas to Port Stanley, to Fingal, to Iona, to Wallacetown to Iona Station… and we figured out that we pretty much drove by everyone in our groups houses… wow… it’s not like we all live near each other either!! It was quite the hike, but we definitely had good times… I have a new appreciation for the song ‘we wish you a merry christmas’ lol… Scott has a cool version of the song and me and Lyd were having fun singing with it!! Wow… anyway, we made it back to Joel’s for the gift exchange by 9:10ish (after digging Scott out of a snow bank after a lovely fishtale in the church parking lot and after watching the guys push Esther out of the ditch…). We then had our gift exchange… woohoo… I got a sled, so of course, Lyd and i HAD to try it out! But we soon found out that Joel doesn’t have any hills in his yard… so we tried the ditch… that amused us for a while, but we decided that pushing eachother around the yard was a lot more fun!! Soon after, we made our way to hockey… (very wet, cold and shivering!) that was pretty uneventful for the most part… I guess that’s all for now… (don’t forget to enjoy the snowy parking lots!!)
later…

Random Pictures...

Ok, so I'm using derek's laptop ... gunna upload some of his pics...

ok, so that's typical... this was the number one picture in his 'my pictures' file.

hmmm let's see what else he has for our viewing pleasure. . .

ok... here's a good one:

Before:

After:

It's a good thing Lyd doesn't check my blog too often... hehe...anyway, now we all know what Derek does for fun...

Ok, that took too long... time to log off... (woohoo, snow day today!!!)

woohoo!

I've had 1000 hits on my blog! woohoo!

(wow...big post!)

Hockey

Ok . . . here goes another attempt at uploading the pictures to my blog:

Wow . . . what a lovely shot . . . (this pic took 6 min. 23 seconds to load...)

and that's all folks . . . none of the other pictures want to show themselves. . . maybe some other day. . .

Not really a hockey picture is it? Well, if it helps, this pictures was taken in the penalty box at the arena...

Have a good weekend...