Happenings in the last couple weeks

We've had quite a bit going on since Thanksgiving. We celebrated at Doyle's Aunt and Uncle's house outside Iowa City. It was a fun time, we ate a lot of food, played a white elephant type gift game and got to meet Duane's fiance. Here is a picture of Doyle and his grandparents, George and Melva.

We stayed an extra week after Thanksgiving at Dad's while Doyle covered in Ames for another week.

Dad and I got to see Korey perform her dance routine at the Iowa State Dance Competition in Des Moines on the following Friday. I don't have any pictures from that because I was video taping, Dad will have some though. On friday night, Doyle was supposed to come down and meet Sarah, Dustin, Abby Davis and I to eat supper and then we were going to go see Jolly Holiday Lights. Doyle was very excited for this part. When Sarah, Abby and I were ready to leave the dance competition, I called Doyle and he seemed upset. He said a guy brought in a laptop that was blue-screening at 3:00, right when he was going to leave. By 9:30 after we had eaten, he was still working, so Abby and Sarah drove me to Ames to drop me off at Hach. That was about 10 pm. After getting him some supper, we ended up leaving Ames aournd 1:15 am, getting to Tama around 2 am. It was a LONG night.

Then on Saturday, Doyle and I hung out all day with Korey, we watched "You, Me, and Dupree" and "Nacho Libre" and ate Casey's Pizza. It was a good relaxing day. Then Doyle and I went to hear Dad's community band play at the Christmas Ball. They did really good and I was suprised how many of them were in the band.

Then on Sunday morning we left early to head to Morningside and see Miah. We had a lot of fun checking out the campus and then we ate at Hu-Hot, a mongolian buffett. It was so good! I was completely suprised I like it, it was mixed up!

When we got back home, we immediately went back to work. I'm working part-time at Aqua Spas and part-time as a "nanny" for 2 amazing little boys, almost 2 yrs and almost 4 months. We decorated our house for Christmas on Wednesday. That was fun, except Doyle got called out to a fire in the middle of it!