Holiday Letter - Part III

HO HO HO!!!

Remember to start at the third post down from this one, and read up.... I guess I could reverse the order of the letter, but I'm sure you can do that. And Cheryl, to answer your question, my 15 year old son, Bubba, volunterily wore the stocking hat.... he wore it all day in fact, and was very goofy (more so than usual) while wearing it!!

Well, Sissy is wearing it here, they actually went back and forth for the photo shoot!

And finally.....

7. Okay, I have to bring up Sissy again, she'll be mad if I don't have something positive to say about her, does she: A.) Volunteer at the animal shelter B.) Cheer for the Bears (Beardsley Bears ) C.) Maintain an almost 4.0 gpa D.) Pick up the floor in her room. If you guessed A, B & C you are correct, D well, lets just say she is the typical teenager, although she does light up a room when she is happy!!!

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** The last paragraph was completely copied from the place I stole this letter idea from!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Holiday Letter - Part II

Check out yesterday's post to read the beginning of this holiday quiz!!! Merry Christmas!!


4. I'm currently A.) Unemployed, enjoying the life of being a stay at home mom, eating bon bons and watching The View. B.) Working at the middle school as a Teacher's aide. C.) Working as a receptionist at an Ophthalmology Office. D.) An Administrative assistant at a manufacturing plant. If you guessed B, you are correct. I'm there temporarily, helping a friend.

5. The big guy is the great dad, the wonderful provider and an all around good guy but he's: A .) Going to be 45 B.) His best golf game this year shot par (36) and scored a new league record C.) Greatly disappointed with the Presidential Elections, and wont even talk about it. D.) Got to calm down on the sidelines of the hockey games and volleyball tournaments. He's just too excited!!! Where's security, get that guy outta here!! Did you guess all of the above?


6. Our family was established in 1990, we've lived in 3 different states in the past 18 years, which is not correct: A.) Murfreesboro, TN 5 years B.) Crystal Lake, IL 2-1/2 years C.) Racine, WI 11 years D.) Oxford, IN 18 years. Did you guess D? The big guy is the only one who lived there.

Stay tuned for the next installment!!

Happy Holidays

Over the next few days.... Merry Christmas, by the way.... I will include installments of our Christmas newsletter.

Here is day one:In the paraphrased words of Bill O'Reilly, I will not be politically correct, I call them as I see them, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! This year I thought, as I searched the WWW to find a new way to write my annual newsy letter, a quiz... see how much you can figure out about the US. Sorry, there has to be a little bragging, but hey, that's life... get over it!

1. Upon becoming a sophomore at PRHigh School, Bubba's subjects are: A.) Foods I, where he's learned to bake a fruit cobbler, tried his hand at making a Caesar Chicken Pita and actually had to clean up after himself. B.) Chinese, the language of any future businessman. C.) Speech, standing and performing D.) Drivers Ed... a new teenager on the road, yikes! If you guessed A,B&C, you are correct, along with Advanced Algebra Trig and Chemistry we are proud to boast that Bubba on last reports was maintaining a 3.96 gpa. Drivers Ed is next semester, in the winter.

2. Our best vacation time this year was: A.) 3 day blizzard snow trip to Indianapolis for a Volleyball tournament, white knuckle drive. B.) A four day trip to Louisville, Kentucky to watch Sissy play in a volleyball tournament. Side note: we stayed in a Hotel with John McCain and his MIB. C.) Three day trip to Wisconsin Dells, 10 of us in one large suite celebrating my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary, priceless. D.) Four day trip flying in to Myrtle Beach, SC...lovely sand and the ocean breeze, rented a convertible, (that was one item on my bucket list.) E.) 3 day road trip to Toledo Ohio for a JV hockey tournament, 20 stinky high school boys with potty humor, enough said. All of the above occurred, D was probably the best!

3. In 8th grade every fashionable 13 year old girl must have: A.) Coach Purse B.) Cell phone with unlimited texting and pictures of all of her friends with pouty lips, heads together and fingers in rapper mode. C.) A Starbucks latte. D.) Use the world like at least 4 times in like one sentence! If you guessed B, you are somewhat correct. Cell phone yes, unlimited texting, no!

Check back again!!