Tues. 12/3/24, Fed the birds, blew the leaves off the deck, Bill picked up Max and brought him over, I took him home, I went to prayer, we watched a Movie in the evening

The leaves are finally all off the tree

Bill and Max practiced shooting,  It was too cold for me, but I did go get a picture.  Max wasn’t cold and he was in shorts

Max and Bill cleaning the guns afterwards

There was lots of frost on the ground this morning.  I made my coffee then went into the living room and read my Bible.  Bill was already reading his.  I am almost done reading the book of Amos now.  

Bill had to go into town.  I ate Mac and Cheese that I got at Aldi’s and it was just like homemade.  Yum!  When I was done, I went outside and filled all of the bird feeders.  Of course, Kit Kat had to come get some attention from me.  I got the blower and blew the leaves off the deck.  There weren’t many so this will be the last time doing it this year.  Bill came home and had Max with him.  I was talking to Kimmy on the phone and she wanted to tell Max happy birthday.  Max sure smiled when he heard her and then he said thank you.

He and Bill went outside and practiced shooting for quite a long time.  Max said he wasn’t cold at all.  

They came in to clean the guns.  I offered to make hot chocolate for Max, but he didn’t want any.  After they got done, I took Max home and went in and visited with Melissa for a few minutes.   Then I went and got gift cards at Krogers since today was the last day the points were quadrupled.  I got all the ones I know I need for Christmas, plus some for Bill and I to use places we go.  When I got home, I made eggs, potatoes and bacon for Bill and I ate my left over pizza from last night.  Then I went to prayer at church.  It was snowing so hard, I couldn’t see with my bright lights on, so turned them on dim.  Prayer was awesome, and when I left it wasn’t snowing anymore.   I came home and we watched a good Christmas movie.  Sue called me and I talked to her for a while.  Then I unpaused our movie and we finished watching it.

 

Monday, 12/2/24, Met Melissa at Tim Horton’s, Sorted some gifts to be wrapped, picked up Evan and Jack from school, Badger had a great check up at the Vet, watched a movie

Jack when I dropped him off at home

 We read our Bibles and Advent Devotion.   Kenzie FaceTimed me.  Rehash was so cute and just so smiley.  It always makes my day to see them. 

I put some batteries in the ornament of Peyton, Isaac and McKenzie’s recorded voices with a Christmas greeting.  Kenzie gave it to me for Christmas when she was little.  I love hearing their young voices on it.  It got erased once, but worked out great because now I have all three of their voices on it.  I love my voice recorded ornaments from Jacob, Adam and Eli and also one from Hailey, Max, Jack and Evan.

 Bill is returning the Wi Fi we tried that he got from Verizon, so I got the box out of the attic for him.  He got ready and went to breakfast with his retiree friends, then returned the wifi box afterward.  He had an hour wait before getting waited on.  I met Melissa at Tim Horton’s to pick up the number I need for my car when I pick Evan up later today.  We went in and had Vanilla Dip donuts and she had a Mocha and I had a Cappuccino.  We had a nice visit in the comfy seats by the fireplace.  Sue called me, but I forgot my phone, so I had to talk on my watch.  She had a doctor appt. in the afternoon, so I told her I would pray.  She hung up and Melissa and I prayed right away for her.  Then I noticed that she hadn’t actually hung up and she heard us praying for her.  I talked to her a little more and then we really did hang up.  We left after that and each went home.  

I went through some boxes of things I ordered for Christmas and wrote names on them.  Tomorrow I will wrap them.  I am going to try to keep up wrapping right after the gifts arrive. I took the wooden turkey feathers out of the pumpkin on the porch and took the pumpkin to the garden.  I cleaned them off, glued the hat onto the turkey head better, and pack them away for next year.  I left to go pick up Evan from school.  After he got in my car, we headed to get Jack from his school.  On the way home I asked them if they wanted Frosty’s from Wendy’s or shakes from McDonald’s.  They said no thank you.  That was a first.  I think they were just excited to get home and hear what the vet said about Badger today and how his tests came out.  Melissa called me later and said two of Badger’s numbers were great and in the normal range.  The third, which is the one that was off the charts before, was now in the high end of the normal range.  Melissa said he is completely back to normal with how he acts at home.  Thanking God more!

I made pizza’s for dinner.  They were yummy.  During dinner we watched an Andrea Bocelli Family Christmas Movie on Prime. They sang my favorite Christmas songs that were about Jesus.  After that, we watched a good movie.  Can’t remember the name of it.

Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 Happy 19th Birthday Max! We love you!Went to prayer and then church service, went to Culver’s after church, went to Max’s Birthday Celebration,

All of us at Culver’s for lunch

Happy Birthday Max!  We love you and are so thankful you are our grandson.  

Evan and Jack, Vader looking at the envelope on the floor.  He found a dollar that was left in it.  Smart doggie!

Max opening his cards with Vaders help...Abby watching

Hailey trying to look taller than Evan.  She reminds me so much of Melissa in this picture.

 We went to prayer, then went into the church service.  Vikki, Rody, Peyton, Regan, Isaac, Hailey and Evan were already seated when we came in.  Prayer was amazing, worship was really awesome this morning, and Pastor Ken’s message was so good.  We prayed for people after church, then visited with people.  We all went to Culver’s after service.  We had fun talking and enjoyed the good food and yummy sundae’s.    We came home and I got Max’s card and money ready, then we went to Menard’s and got a few things, and then went to Melissa and Bruce’s to celebrate Max’s birthday.  He asked for a white cake with white frosting this year.  It was super good and so was the ice cream.  He opened his gifts and cards after that.  Badger was doing amazing again today.  Tomorrow is his vet appointment.  Praying that his kidneys are working properly now.

We read our Bibles and our Advent devotion.  I love this time of year.  God is so awesome and I love the Christmas story in the Bible.  We watched a good movie, Love Covers All.