Hello Luggage!!

I was driving to the YMCA this morning with Jillian. We had just dropped Chris off at work and she was telling me that "we should be two boys because then we could go to work. Boys go to work and girls stay home." I said, "what do girls do at home?" She said, "Girls stay at home. Little girls watch TV and big girls.....mmmmm.... clean the house!" So, according to Jilli, I am right on track for being a big Girl! She cracks me up!

I did an awesome Spinning class today and WOW did it feel good to SWEAT!! I am so glad Chris bought me the membership! It's great because they have a couple of locations and all of them have a daycare program so I can leave Jilli there for 2 hours and get busy moving my body! Yay! I love to work out!

I have to apologize for slacking off this week in my daily posting! I had a busy week to start out and then on Tuesday, around suppertime, I got hit by a lovely holiday Bug. I was completely wasted. I had to go crawl into bed and I didn't want to get out for a few days. Nasty! I was supposed to teach a stamp class on Tuesday night and I had to moan out to Chris to please call everyone and cancel. It was horrid. I don't know when I'll reschedule because it's hitting crunch time! 

Chris was also hit this week and put on "Quarters" for 48 hours because of possible Strep/ bronchitis. He's feeling a little better today after being on antibiotics. Jillian got sick this week with a crappy cold. She is just miserable. I took her in to the doc on Wednesday and we both got swabbed for Strep but were negative. (Yay) She has a horrid cough and I just wish it would go away faster! Man! I guess it's good we're getting it all out of our systems before Christmas! 

Thursday night was Enrichment night and it was a VERY fun Christmas PJ Party! We ate pizza and snacks, chatted away, and were treated to a nice Christmas story and serenade to end the night. Afterwards, we went to visit a Sister who's been in the hospital for quite some time. It was a crazy, rainy trip and we had a lot of laughs and loads of fun. I wasn't to hip on the idea of staying out late after feeling not so great for two days... but I was glad I went!

Today I spent the entire day cleaning house and working on all my projects that I've been behind on. I think I finally have the shopping part done! Now to just get it all finished and into boxes to mail to all our dear ones back home! I'm hopeful that that will happen by Monday. I also put a crock pot full of White Bean Chicken Chile (Chris' favorite!) on to cook all day for the Choir Party we went to. (I'll have to include the recipe at a later date!) It was a fun dinner followed by singing practice for our performance on Sunday. I love the songs we're singing and it was a fun time! I hope the Pyne home survived us all!!

Jessica has a Science Project due on Monday and we've got to finish that up this weekend... grrrr. That will be my fun project tomorrow. Chris has to work. How lucky he is... tee hee. I hate school projects. (And I never push them over the top... just the basics for us! We do what's expected and NO MORE!! HA HA!) We also have the Ward Christmas Party tomorrow night! Should be loads of fun! Yay! I hope to have pictures to post tomorrow! Check back!

Today I was awakened at 4 am by the ringing of my telephone. I didn't think to get up and answer it... I was still in that dark place where awareness and reality haven't quite met. Chris got up and grabbed the phone and I heard, "Hello Sgt Harrison, this is Sgt B___". Great. Yeah. Chris had to get into his PT uniform and head in to work at 4:30 am on a Saturday morning. Lovely. I went back to sleep. At 8:30am I was awakened again by the ringing of a phone - my cell phone telling me it was time to get up! We had a primary activity to be to at 10 am! Lovely. I can't tell you how much I wanted to just ignore the alarm and skip the activity... but I didn't.
We went out to our church and had a fun time playing Pin the Bell on the Reindeer, Musical chairs to Christmas music and listened to some cute Christmas stories while eating Krispy Kreme donuts... mmmmmm. Afterwards, we were told that there was a Christmas parade starting at noon! We hurried to find our spot on the parade route and were very glad we did! It was a great parade with LOTS of candy tossing! We saw friends from the ward and had a very good time. I think we'll have to make it a tradition.
Chris had stayed home through all of this to catch up on his sleep so we went back home to grab him before heading out to run our errands for the day. We found a blow-up snowman at Walmart for $25 bucks and we just had to get him!! He's huge and fat and the cutest thing I've seen. Chris set him up on the front lawn and now we have an outdoor decoration! Yay!
We spent the rest of our evening playing the Wii and actually met up with my brothers for some  wicked MarioKart tournaments! I actually won first place in one race! Yay me! It's been a really fun day and I'm glad we were able to fill it up with so many fun events! Ahhhh the holidays! Busy but enjoyable!