Jamin's Day

Today was Jamin's turn to hit the stores. LOL

I love the way this one shops. He got into the van, pulled out a list of everyone he needed to buy for, and had stores and items listed that he planned to purchase. We went to the stores, he bought what he wanted, we ran errands, went grocery shopping and had lunch.

Jamin chose Double Dave's. The salad bar is pretty good. Certainly better than Wendy's Southwest but not quite as good as McDonald's Southwest with lime instead of dressing. ::snort::

We have been busy wrapping gifts each day. The tree is starting to look embarassingly full again. A big box from Home Science Tools arrived...It contained Nolan's main gift and lots of stocking stuffers.

I spent a bit of time online trying to track down hard to find gift requests. Arielle wants books that I'm not sure have been written. Mike would like season's from a series that I don't think have been released. Jamin wants tons of ancient war/weapon, clothing books for his research.

I PAID BILLS! This is big - I didn't forget until 1 Jan. LOL

LIGHTS!!!!

We love looking at Christmas lights. Our little city puts on quite an impressive light display along the river. We've looked forward to it each year since moving here.

At dinner tonight, Josiah asked if we could go look at lights. This may well be the only night he doesn't close at Chick Fil A until after Christmas. We jumped on the opportunity and I'm glad we were able to do it together. Stacia doesn't remember them from last year and really enjoyed them. We were a bit disappointed that many of the lights weren't working.....I'm sure we'll try again later.

He got his second grade today - History - A. He has his final exam in English tomorrow. He's hoping for a B....would have been an A...but that's another blog entry.

A few photos:

Mummy Revealed

We finally dug our apple mummy out of it's salty tomb.

Yes, we could see and feel a difference. The apple exposed to the air was smaller and rock hard...The mummified apple was still soft, moist, and was much larger.

Sucessful project.