Travelling

Another crazy week at work since our PTA was out sick for part of it, but I ended up busting tail at the start and then the PTA got better, so I only had 2 people to see on Friday morning. I still didn't work out this week since I was sick and someone else was able to open the gym for volleyball. 

We picked up our freeze dryer this week! It came early and the store got confused, but we did it just in time before leaving for vacation. We also had a quick trip to a store nearby for some Virgil's black cherry soda for a Christmas treat for the Page Sandalls. 

The recreation

Our Christmas tradition (which I didn't realize was tradition until Rog pointed it out) is to go to the used bookstore in town for some new reads. I ended up picking a new planner for Roger with profane birds and he let me pick out 6 books for myself (which was a mistake lol) before getting ice cream and heading home. 

We did our family Christmas early since we weren't about to pack stuff anywhere (which I stand by). And Rog is excited about some new pants, shooting stick, and headphones. He got me a cookbook - but a useful one for our freeze dryer - some homemade fruit snack molds, a sweet knife, a gun cleaning kit, and some hand therapy tools - unironically purchased right before I broke my wrist. We're not really giving Christmas gifts to children, but we did get a couple new books and some new tools for progressing to a solid food diet that we were needing anyways. 

This was just to fulfill her shutter count. 

After my two patients Friday, we waited to meet up with the Natural Plumbing crew for lunch. Rog got a lovely new shirt that Kaleb gifted him - although half of Kaleb's gift is still in the mail. He had a good time and I enjoyed the good food. We paused in Page then headed up to Richfield (Roger's requested spot for a hotel that he later realized was not on our direct route). 

We spent the night in a nice King bed, getting in around 9:30. We had some continental breakfast and I forgot that it was a public place. Then we stopped at Red Barn for cider and a few other treats we spent way too much money on before getting to Hannah's. Aurora did so many tricks and kept trying to show us different movies. Everyone took naps at various times, then Hannah went to pick up L/M. 

The most uncomfortable one. 

The siblings all met up at JC Penney's for a photo recreation as a surprise Christmas gift for Kelly. The photographer was WILD and her ideas for a nice photo were super uncomfortable. She also ruined the reaction to introducing J to the crew, which was unfortunate, but Hutchins don't have crazy reactions anyways. 

Then we all showed up suspiciously around the same time to the AirBnB for a hangout and some games. We were the only ones sleeping over that night since Xan/Mads switched off staying at Mad's family's house and Hannah slept at her own apartment sometimes. 

The only decent one. 

We went to church with Kelly and Rich at Derek's ward. It was 98% musical numbers, but surprisingly went 5min over. There were a few excellent ones and the rest weren't bad either. A small crew hung out at the AirBnB for a smaller version of Tday dinner provided by Kelly. 

As a side note, with the emergence of baby J, the blog will be going to private mode. Please let me know if you want access, as I will need to add emails individually.