Special As You

Hola, peeps! How was your Wednesday? Mine, you ask? Splendid - hehe :)

I woke up late, since my phone died in the middle of the night. Oops. At least it was just the battery. Actually, I woke up at 4:30am, when Captain America had a question he needed answered before he went to work. Something about banks and routing numbers. They're getting ready to deploy, and today was a bunch of paperwork and medical stuff. So he'd gotten a text saying to bring the bank info, and since I do the bills, he had to ask.

He was all apologetic, which was sweet, and told me to go back to bed. Which I did - hehe :)

I got up in time to ready scriptures, say prayers, get kids dressed and fed and on the bus. And then I sat on the couch with Jimmy for a while. I brought out my computer, and worked on a project that I'd forgotten about. Oops :) There's a "12 Ways of Christmas" blog that I was asked to participate in over the 12 days of Christmas, that talk about 12 different ways we can come closer to Christ over the holiday. And I volunteered to make WordArts for each of the 12 ways.

WAY back in October. And I remember thinking that I needed to do it before I forgot about it. Oops. Well, I got an email about it today, and sat down, and designed all 12. They turned out pretty good. You can see the blog HERE. I designed the WordArt for the header too :)

And then it was time to try on my Formals :) BUT, I couldn't do that without first getting my hair and make up all pretty. That's just how it needs to be done, you know - ha!

So I showered, and took a long time putting on a lot of make up (needed to cover the zits I picked, you know...) and curly hair, pulled up. It looked pretty good. And I tried on my 3 dresses. I think I'm gonna go with the teal/blue one. Not that I don't like the black one better, but I'm trying to branch out, and not just wear black all the time - hehe. Prove to myself that I can do color too :)

I had Jake take pictures of me in all 3 dresses that I tried on. This on cost $0.99, and the cover was $3.99.

This one was $0.99 too, and the cover was $4.99.

And the teal/blue one was $0.99, and the cover is the same white one from above. I just LOVE savers :)
I got these HUGE silver/pearl earring last night at Jewelry box, and I also got some teal ones that are BIG too. I'm not sure which I like better... I think the colored ones.


This dress doesn't quite cover enough of my back. I'd have to wear a shirt or something under it to keep myself modest. And the zipper has issues. If I chose to wear it, I could totally rig something, but I'm leaning towards the blue.

I love these purple earrings - hehe

And by the time I was done playing with all my clothes and jewelry, it was 10:50am, and I had to hurry and change clothes to my yoga clothes, and get Jim to the bus. We made it! And I was SO fancy - hehe. Fancy hair and make up for yoga - LOL!

Kari picked me up at the bus stop after Jim got on the bus, and we drove on over to Stout Gym. It was a VERY good class. My back got stretched real good, and I really liked it :)

We headed back home, and I got there JUST as Captain America had left from lunch. Hmpf! Not cool :) I ate lunch with Jake, and we watched an episode of Fringe.

I designed a WordArt pack, and then headed out to the store. I was gone to Family Dollar for an hour, and made it back in time to get Jim off of the bus.

I found this recipe on the back of a bag of Recese Peanut Butter Cups. They look REALLY yummy. So I got some of the peanut butter cups, and some Hersheys Kisses, and some peppermint patties, and a few decorations, and have plans to make teacher goodies (cookies) and ornaments for the kids teachers next week. I'm excited!

And then I headed to the bus stop. And yeah, I'd forgotten my Sunglasses, and it was SO bright! ha! It's hard to remember it's winter sometimes....
I got Jim from the bus, and headed back home. And I worked for a while cleaning my room. I had ALL the clothes of mine from our weekend trip, AND 2 loads of my laundry, AND all the new savers clothes to put away. Sigh. That was a HUGE mess.

I got it sorted, and Joe got home from school, then Eme and Tom. I took a break, and made brownies. I cut up the peppermint patties and put them in the batter, and spooned it into mini muffin tins. Yeah, it didn't work out so well. I wonder if it would have been better in a pan?

Not that we didn't eat it - ha! I scraped them out, formed them into a ball, and it was good to go. Nice and minty, and a little crunchy. We're not picky in our house :) But I wouldn't let the kids eat the brownie until their chores were done. There's one way to get them to do their chores :)

Captain America came home around 5pm, and he and I cooked dinner for ourselves, and I made a taco casserole of sorts for the kids. We watched an episode of Doctor Who, and hung out.

Then Captain America got showered and ready for our interviews that evening (we had to have the kids skip their scout meetings, cause really, we can't be in 2 places at once - hehe), and I got the kids all situated. Eme and Joe had finished their homework, and the kids decided who was gonna play on computer. And at around 6:45pm, Captain America and I headed across town to the Stake Center to try and get a Stake Temple recommend interview. We'd tried calling and setting one up, but couldn't get ahold of anyone. So we figured we'd just go on Wednesday night (church activity night) and hope to catch someone there.

Jake was left with directions to put the kids to bed at 7:30pm, and then for him and Eme and Tom to read quietly in their rooms. I LOVE having a 13 yr old at home, did I mention that before?

Captain America and I headed out in the Saturn on our "date". We drove the 30-ish minutes across town and found the Stake Center. And found someone to show us where the Stake offices were, and luckily, the Stake President was there. Woohoo! There was a missionary just getting home, and he and his parents were there meeting with him.

We slid in next, and got our recommend interviews. They're good for 2 years. Captain America's was set to expire at the end of the month, but with him deploying the first of the year, better safe than sorry, so he renewed it.

I worked on my blog while Captain America was in, and got a bit of it done. Multitasking is great, you know :) And then we were both done, and headed over to the Outlet Malls, since we were on that end of town anyway. The were open for another hour, so we decided to walk around.Check out this HUGE Christmas tree we found! I LOVED it, and just HAD to get some pictures in front of it!

And these balls? Yeah, I couldn't resist!

First stop was Jewelry Box. I found a few things. Some lip gloss and a hair thing and a scarf and some eyeshadow. They didn't really have any jewelry this time that interested me that much. Sometimes the WHOLE store is filled with things I want, and other time, eh, not so much.

Next stop was New Balance outlet. Captain America's favorite :) He needs new running shoes, but wasn't trying them on tonight. Just browsing.
We went to Old Navy, but yeah, even their clearance is WAY too overpriced for me. $8 for a shirt? I think not! hehe.

We stopped and went in a kitchen accessory store too, and I found some Mini Muffin papers to go with that cookie recipe from above. Should be SO tasty :) We had fun looking around in there. I like cooking accessories!

And then Captain America was almost falling asleep (he'd gotten up at 4am three days in a row...), and the stores were closing since it was just after 9pm, and we headed home. But not before stopping at Howdy's for a drink. I drove, since he was so sleepy.

And this Howdy's had a McDonalds inside too. So we went to get a Fruit and Yogurt Parfait, but they were all out. Grrr. So we decided to get a Fruit and Walnut salad. Yeah, out of that too. Whaaaat? So we got the apples from the kids meals. Nasty little things. But they had 360% of my daily serving of Vitamin C. Maybe that's why they tasted nasty..... Just a thought.

We sat in the McDonalds dining room, and ate our apples, drank our soda, and just chatted. It was very nice. And I, of course, snapped pictures :)





And when our sodas were done, we headed home. Captain America fell asleep, and I cranked the Christmas Station and sang LOUD the whole way home, with a BIG smile on my face. I just LOVE the Christmas Music Station. It makes me happy :) Big smiles!

It's now 11:01pm, and I'm sleepy . I'm SO glad I designed earlier. hehe. Cause I don't think I have it in me to do it now :) ha!

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Christmas Shopping

Morning! Hope everyone's week is going well :) Captain America was up and gone before 5am this morning, but me? Yeah, not so much - hehe. I finally got up at 7am, read scriptures, said prayers, and drug my sorry butt out of the bed. I REALLY didn't wanna. But I did. I got the kids fed and dressed and prayered and ready and out the door. 8 minutes late, buy they didn't miss the bus, so it was all good :)

I got Jim situated with PBS cartoons, Jake at school, and I went back to bed. I don't know why I was exhausted, but I sure was. I know I was in bed before 11pm. Hmmm. Oh well. I was happy for the extra rest.

And I totally woke up around 9:30am or so. Feeling much better. I got dressed, came out on the couch, and designed while Jimmy sat next to me. It was a very peaceful hour before Jim's bus. I designed Christmas WordArt, and was really in a groove :)

I stopped at around 10:30am, and got Jim ready for school, and myself ready for the pool. Kari and I were swimming laps today. I did 12 half laps last time, so my goal was 20 this time. Eeek! But I knew I could do it!

I walked Jim to the bus, chatted with Erin and Maggie for a bit, Jim left on the bus, and I went off to meet Kari at the pool. And I decided to bring Jake with me this time. He could use some exercise too :) Gotta get those PE hours in, you know! I told him that he just needed to go down and back the whole time we were there. I didn't care if he walked it in the water and swam when he couldn't reach, even slowly. Movement was the idea... He did an EXCELLENT job :)

I stopped after 10 half laps and had to use the bathroom, so Kari got 2 laps ahead of me. But I finished my 20, and felt pretty good. When I got out of the pool, though, my legs felt like Jello again - hehe. Swimming is a GREAT workout.

Here's me, proud of my 20 half laps in an hour (with my new $4.00 Speedo Swimsuit)

Last week when we went swimming, it was FREEZING! This week? 70 and sunny. It was almost too warm for the hoodie. LOL! Almost...

Jake and I went home, and Captain America was there for lunch. He'd already eaten, and had about 20 minutes before he had to be back to work. Jake got himself lunch, and I changed my clothes real fast, and Captain America and I headed off post for a Howdy's run. He drove his truck, which scares me (hehe), but it was a good time :)

He dropped me off at home, and continued on to work. I got my lunch, and Jake and I watched an episode of Fringe during his lunch break. And I designed more. Cause I was REALLY on a roll. hehe.

At 2:oopm, I decided that I wanted to chat with Andrea. I'd been trying to call for about a week now, and our schedules just hadn't lined up. So I called, and got through this time! We ended up chatting for about an hour and a half. She's SUCH A good friend, and I love her to bits! She's like the sister my age than I never had :)

She came to the bus stop to pick up Jimmy with me at 2:30pm and didn't even know it - hehe. And when I had to get the kids from AQ at 3:30ish, we were done talking. Joe was just getting home from school, and I left Jake in charge, telling them to all get ready for the Library movie.

I went to the school and picked up Tom and Eme (Bella's mom got her today), and we hurried back to post, dropped off their backpacks, picked up Jake and Joe and Tom, and headed to the library.

We got there about 30 minutes late, and missed most of the movie. But it was ok, because once it got over, we just hit PLAY again, and watched it from the beginning until where we'd come in - hehe. It was only a 40 minute video. National Geographics "Monsters of the Sea" or something like that. It was really a pretty cool DVD.

Kari and her kids had to leave around 4:30pm to get Josephine to her dance practice. She has a recital on Frida

My kids had Animal Crackers for snack, and had fun sitting on the Bean Bags and watching the show. I like this new Tuesday Afterschool Routine. Eme and Tom wanted to know if they could ditch out of AQ a few minutes early on Tuesday so they could make it to the movie closer to on time. We'll see, I told them :)

And while we were there, we saw this sign that promo-ed their Christmas Movie days over Christmas Break. My kids were pretty excited about coming back for the snacks. ROFL!

The kids all had to go to the bathroom before we left for home, and as we were walking to the truck, I noticed that Jim was carrying his shoes AND his underwear. WHAAAT? New family rule: No removing your underwear in public.... Silly boys!


We got home, and started on chores and homework. And yeah, the kids were bickering SO bad I felt like yelling. But then I came up with a MUCH better idea. I sent EVERYONE to their rooms for mandatory quiet time. And I did the kitchen chores. I did the dishes, and cleared the counters a bit. THATS how much I wasn't enjoying the bickering.

Captain America got home around that time, and was AMAZED at how quiet the house was - hehe. Maybe we need to do mandatory quiet time more often! I cooked Pizza Sandwiches for the kids for dinner, and once they were done, let them come out of their rooms. And, magically, the bickering ceased.

Captain America changed clothes, and he and I headed out on a Christmas Shopping date. Since my kids don't read this blog, I can freely blog about our Christmas plans for them, right? hehe.

BUT, first stop, El Taco Tote for dinner. Just because it's my favorite place!

After dinner, we headed over to Guitar Center. We'd found a used acoustic guitar last time we went for $59. Yeah, it was gone. But we found this one for $99. And it had pretty good sound. Tom really wanted one. And of course, we had to get a sturdy case for it. You've SEEN my kids, right? hehe. They break EVERYTHING. And the softer hard case didn't fit the guitar! What? The dude seemed surprised too. So he gave us a hard case for the softer case price. That's was a GREAT deal :) I think the hard case cost as much as the guitar, so we saved quite a bit :)


After Guitar Center, we headed over to Bassett Center to go to the Jewelry Box. I wanted to look for new earrings to wear to the Ball on Thursday :)

We parked by Kohls, and walked through the rings department. Yeah, my FAVORITE place - hehe. I had birthday money from my Grandma, and, well, I just LOVE their rings.

I wanted to replace the one on my right hand, middle finger. And Captain America helped me find the PERFECT one. AND, they had 2 pinkie rings that fit my fingers! Apparently, my fingers are small. Maybe they didn't used to be, and that's why it surprises me so much now.

My right hand pinkie is a 4 and my left hand pinkie is a 5. And, I found the only 4 and 5 in the store, and the BOTH fit. Sweet!

Middle ring from Captain America, and pinkie ring from Grandma Ida

I had to keep the pointer ring finger open for my Jewelry Box rings. hehehe. But I can't wear them any more than a few hours, or else they turn my fingers green. The Kohl's rings NEVER turn my fingers green, so I don't take them off...

New Pinkie ring

I wanted to try them on before I bought them, because with their security thing on them, it's hard to tell if they really fit or not. So the lady cut them all off, and I picked the ones that I wanted.


We headed to Jewelry Box, and Captain America headed to the Target Bathroom - hehe. He found me a few minutes later. I found a few earrings that should work well for the dress I picked, and a few things for Eme. And some socks for me. And some nail polish the same teal/blue as my dress. I'm excited to try it all together tomorrow! Balls a fun, you know!

We headed home after that, since the mall was closing. But decided to stop and see if Big Lots was open later than 9pm. And it was! So we stopped in to see if they had a light up star to put with our outside lights.

And we were there for WAY too long, but found some good stuff. They had a Turkey BBQ. And we got it - hehe. We have 2 turkeys in the freezer, so we'll be able to use it at least twice - ha! It holds up to a 16 lb turkey. Who doesn't liked Grilled Turkey, right? hehe. It works on propane, which we have. Maybe I'll pull a turkey out of the freezer this weekend so we can try cooking it on Sunday...

We found a few Christmas presents for the kids, too. They had a Disney Car's race track that we got for Jim, and some Hot Wheels for Jake, some Wii controllers for $25 a piece (and they came with numchucks (off brand)), and some art stuff for Emeline. I'm still not sure what everyone's getting for Christmas yet... But we're SO much further along than we were at the beginning of the day. hehe.

We paid, and headed home, and hung for a while at home, then Captain America went to bed, and I started blogging. Poor guy has to get up and be at work at 5am again. It's now 1 minute till midnight, and I'm gonna head to bed.

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Can't Live Without You

Just so everyone knows, this is in regards to my PHONE! hehe. I'm not pining away for anyone, or afraid that I can't live when Captain America deploys (that WILL be hard, but I'll be ok), or anything like that. But when my phone freaked out today, I almost DIED. hehe. I dropped what I was doing, and drove on up to Verizon to have them fix it. ROFL!

So, it's Monday, and anyone who reads my blog regularly knows that that means! Savers Trip! hehe. And I finally talked some of my friends into going with me! Kari and Laurie both agreed to come and "play".

I woke up at 7am, read scriptures, said prayers, got kids ready, and out the door by 7:30am. I sat on the couch with Jim for a while, and rested/snuggled with him. Then went and got ready for the day at 8:15am. Jake was doing school, and Jim was playing nicely.

Right before 9am, I headed over to pick up Kari and Laurie (and Rowan - 4). And we headed to the East side to Savers. I was pretty excited. LOL! I donated a whole bunch of VHS tapes, and got a 20% off coupon. Doesn't hurt, right?

Kari headed over to the jeans, and I headed to the shirts/sweaters. And I went to skirts, and dresses too. And jackets.

Here's the only picture I took the whole time at Savers. Whaaaat? So out of character for me, huh? hehe. I found a Sock Monkey Jammies and just HAD to take a pic for Andrea. Because she and her mother-in-law have this Sock Monkey joke thing going on, so I'm always on the look out for funny sock monkeys :)


And before I knew it, we'd been there 2 hours. LOL! I think Kari had just as much fun as I did :) I'm not sure if Laurie liked it quite as well, but I know she had fun too :)

And after shopping, we were all starving - ROFL! The girls wanted either Indian or Tai food. Sweet! I'd never had either. Well, the first place we tried was Indian, and yeah, it wasn't open on Mondays. Oops. hehe.

So we drove the other way, and found a Tai place. With HORRIBLE parking. But I eventually found somewhere to park my BOAT of a suburban - hehe. It was close to UTEP campus, so parking is tricky. Anytime you park by any college, it's tricky, you know...

Here's a pic of Rowan in the truck :) I told him to smile REAL big, and I'd give him a piece of gum - ha!

Here's the appetizers that Laurie and Rowan ordered. He wanted chicken. But not this yellow chicken. I told him it was Big Bird, and Laurie tried to tell him the yellow was candy. Yeah, he didn't buy it. Chicken wasn't supposed to be yellow, and he was having NO part of it - LMBO! I got a taste, and it was YUMMY. Sorry, Rowan, you missed out - hehe.

I couldn't get this picture to rotate, but you get the idea. It was a tiny little restaurant, but had good food :)

And I took a picture of my food, but my phone started freaking out about right then. It said that it had no space on the disk or on the phone, and was rejecting text messages, AND running very slow. Sigh. Second time in 2 weeks...

So no picture of my food. I ordered the Crying Tiger. It was steak, over a bead of cabbage. Served with rice, which I substituted for steamed veggies. Really, it was pretty good. AND on my menu :) Laurie got chicken and noodles stuff (yeah, I don't know what it was called), and Kari got the same noodles, but with ToFu. She said it was pretty good.

We ate, paid, and headed home. It was a REALLY fun shopping and lunch trip! You girls are welcome to join me again ANY time :)

I dropped Laurie and Rowan off first, then dropped off Kari. And yeah, I ALMOST didn't make it back home. I had to pee SOOOOO bad. After drinking a Diet Mt Dew on the drive over, and 4 waters at lunch, yeah, I needed a bathroom break BAD.

I got home, and hobbled into the house and to the bathroom. It was close. I'm glad I didn't have a mess to clean up from an accident. But I was worried for a few minutes... LOL!

I laid out all my purchases, and took a picture. Well, minus the camo shirt and sweat pant shorts for Jake. I got a TON of stuff!

3 formals, 1 Sunday dress, 1 mens dress shirt, 2 mens shorts, 1 mens t-shirt, 1 speedo womens swimsuit, 1 jeans, 1 brown dress slacks, 4 skirts, 1 girls sweater, 5 dressy shirts, and 1 womens sweater.

Care to venture a guess at what it cost???

I hung with Jake for a little while at home, then realized that my phone was not working... I knew it was having issues, but after taking the battery out and restarting it, it still wasn't working. And that was just NOT acceptable. I can't live without my phone. LOL! OK, so that might be going a bit far.... maybe :)

So I gave Jake instructions to pick up Jim from the bus, and headed to Verizon. With my laptop. I haven't been able to get out of Verizon in under an hour. So I wanted something to do.

I had enough time to design my freebie for tomorrow, when they called my name. It was only about a 5 minute wait. Isn't that the way it always works. If you're prepared with something to do, then you don't have to wait. But if you're not, you wait FOREVER - hehe. Oh well, I did get my freebie designed...

I chatted with the phone dude while he hard reset my phone. He said sometimes they just need crashed and restarted. Nice. AND, since I had 1500 contacts in my gmail account, and gmail and droids go together, it took FOREVER to reload. At first he thought it was 200 and I was like, yeah, it's more than that. Then he saw the 1500, and he was like, yeah, you weren't kidding - hehe. OK, that SO sounds like a teen-y bopper conversation.... sorry, girls!

After Verizon, I was gonna go to Walmart and get more diet soda (since Captain America went through those cases of Diet Dew SO fast), but decided to try Big 8 instead, since it was right down the road. And not crazy busy like Walmart would have been.

And while it wasn't $2.22 a 12 pack like before, it was $3.33, which is still better than $4.50 or worse. Crazy how expensive soda has gotten! And I picked up a few more apples. But they were SO small, that I had to buy double. Because I'm not eating one TINY apple as my one apple. I'm eating 2 tiny apples to make up for one normal sized apple - hehe.

And then I headed home. Joe had JUST gotten off the bus, and the kids were all watching TV. And the house was trashed. I turned off the TV, and we speed organized the house. Not cleaned, but picked up the stuff from the living room and put it in a pile so that the person who has the living room for a chore could clean it later. And I did that to the kitchen, and the dining room too. And it looked a bit better when I was done.

And then it was almost 4pm, and I got everyone ready for the pool. Neither Kari nor Veronica nor Laurie was gonna be able to make it to the pool today, so I decided to bring my laptop. And design for a while :) Cause it makes me happy.

Tom and Eme got home from AQ right at 4pm, and I had them hurry and change, and we were to the pool by 4:15pm. Kari dropped off Leo to play with my kids while she took her daughter to dance practice, and I designed and the kids swam. It really was an enjoyable hour. I got 2 1/2 wordart packs designed, and the kids got some exercise.

And it wasn't as cold as it was last week. No one froze. hehe. We gathered up everyone, and headed home. And yeah, the kids were fighting SO bad. I'm afraid that they're gonna be spending a LOT of time in their rooms after Dad deploys, if they keep this behavior up - hehe. I was kinda the mean yelling mom. But just a little bit :) Not too bad.

Kari came to pick up Leo right as I was starting to decide what to make for dinner. I had kids do their chores, and started on dinner. And Captain America came home right around the time when dinner was ready. And the kids had mellowed out by then.

At around 7pm, we let the kids watch part of a movie, and Captain America and I went on a walk/jog. We'd missed Spin, so figured that a walk/jog was the next best thing. We ended up walking/jogging on and off, for 3 miles. About equal parts. It felt pretty good. We'd walk, then jog, then walk, then jog. My body responded well to the on and off, rather than just jumping right in and running, then feeling like I was gonna die afterwords - ha!

We got back home, said family prayer, and put kids to bed. Captain America and I stretched quite a bit, and then I started blogging. He gave Tom a hair cut, and now is working on a project for work on his computer.

It's 9:32pm, and I'm ready to relax. I'm pretty sleepy after a long day of shopping - hehe. Tomorrow, I have swimming laps, and library movie time, and nothing else! I'm planning on relaxing at home most of the day. That's the plan right now, anyway....

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The Long Road Home

Dang, yeah, I'm not skipping another days blogging. It makes for a LONG blogging time when I finally do get around to it - hehe.

OK, so here was my Sunday :) We woke up around 7:30am, and got all the kids dressed and showered and ready for the day. We headed to breakfast at 8:30am. Same food as yesterday, and we all LOVED it! I'd eaten my apple and yogurt in the room, so I just had a piece of bacon, a sausage, and some eggs. Extra for me, but I figured I"d be ok :)

Here's some pics of the kids eating breakfast





We got the kids to their child care rooms, and Captain America and I headed to class. The Chaplain had a worship service, then we talked about Deployment expectations and stuff. How to make the most of it.

Here's my snacks for the morning.... hehe :)And then we talked about the weekend, and the good and the bad. Then we were released, at around 11:00am. It was SUCH a good weekend!

We packed up our room, made lunches for the kids and for us, and off we went, home to El Paso :) We drove around Cloudcroft for a few minutes, getting a good look at it. My mom had told me that my Dad's side of the family (winona's) used to live in Cloudcroft, Otero Co, New Mexico. And I thought that was SO cool! Here's a museum that may or may not have items belonging to my ancestors (yeah, it was closed today...)


We drove down the mountain, and since I was feeling a bit car sick, I snoozed. For about 30 minutes. And woke up when we were at the gas station for a potty break. Check out the sleep mark on my forehead - ROFL!

We got home around 2:30PM. And it was SO nice to be home. We unloaded the truck, put away clean clothes, washed dirty clothes, and luckily the house was clean from when we left - ha! I hate coming back to a messy house. And that's usually what we do - hehe.

Captain America and I (ok, so mostly him) put up some christmas lights in the front yard, and we watched a few movies. Some Superman/Batman movie, and an episode of Doctor Who. Because the Christmas Special is on Christmas, right Dr Who fan friends???

It's now almost 7pm, and we're gonna put kids to bed, and maybe Captain America and I will play cards. I like to play rummy with him :)

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