Merry Christmas!
I can't believe it's mid December already - time has flown by! I'll give you all a quick update on our November up through yesterday.
The Packer's in Greenleaf received a really nice treat in early November. We had the kids out of school for break, and we took some time together to simply have some fun. It was a nice break. One of the highlights of that week was the really good national news that our nation elected a good man with morals as our President and that the good people of this country made a lot of good decisions especially ridding our Senate of Daschle! I was in a good mood for many days, I guess I still feel quite happy when I think about it.
The other nice highlight for the month was going to Logan Utah for Thanksgiving. My family hasn't made a concerted effort to get together for Thanksgiving at this level since... well it's been a long time. Anyway 4 of my 7 living siblings and my parents were there with their families and it was really great. We really enjoyed seeing my sister's new home in Logan, play all sorts of games both inside and outside (the weather was drizzley at times but not too bad). We had good roads coming and going (snow the morning after we returned so we really timed it right). One highlight was going to the new movie based on Lund's "Work and the Glory" books. The movie was based on book #1. It was really great. Larry Miller was the producer and he spared no expense so it was fantastic from the camera work to the acting, props, scenery etc. My parents wanted to take the 3 oldest grandkids (that included Logan) and Lareen and I wanted to go as well so we came along. The movie was released in certain Utah area's only for the Thanksgiving weekend and then it will have it's full release in January. So, if you haven't seen it, watch for it in January. It's really great!!
I'm not sure if written about a lady in our Ward who has adopted our kids as "grandchildren" yet. Her name is Linda Hunsaker and our kids refer to her as Grandma Linda. She has a couple of grandchildren of her own but due to a bad divorce situation she is unable to see them - ever. It's really sad, so she has adopted a number of kids as her "grandchildren" and she spoils them. I'm not sure how we got so lucky to become some of her chosen kids, but we aren't complaining. She made the kids incredible costumes for Halloween. And yesterday she took them to the Nutcracker ballet in Boise. She made the girls dresses that look like they should be going to the Prom in and made Jarom a nice vest to go under his black suit. So with my old black bow tie (from my prom days) he looked like 007. While they were with her Lareen and I were able to go to the temple, go Christmas shopping and have dinner for a really nice date. They are going to have the kids over next Saturday to make ginger bread houses so that Lareen and I can have another date (or more Christmas preparations) without the kids under tow. What a blessing to have found her. Lareen and I really struggle with feeling like we are taking advantage and she keeps reassuring us that she really enjoys this. Anyway, the kids are really getting spoiled and we remind them of that regularly. We want them to remember that this isn't normal and not to EVER grow to expect this kind of treatment. I don't want it to become "common" to them. It needs to stay extraordinary.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I'll write to you all again in 2005.
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