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We were so fortunate to get to have all of our kids and grandkids come for Christmas this year. Becky and Mike were here for 2 1/2 weeks and Natalie and Nate were here for 2 days. Tom and Gwen and Tammy and Darin came for Christmas Eve and then we also got to see them for a while on Christmas day. Mike and Nate wanted to go shooting so bad on Christmas, but the wind would not stop so we played games and Napped until we were all soooooo bored. Then someone came up with the idea to go bowling. We loaded everyone up and went down to the bowling alley where we were the only people there for most of the time. It was great!! I'm not much of a bowler, but we had a blast anyway. Darin is on a league so of course he did great, but we all were able to laugh at each other and ourselves pretty good. After bowling we went to the only restaraunt in Tooele that was open, (Denny's) and had dinner with a whole bunch of other people. I think we all had a great time. By the time we finished eating the snow finally started and the wind calmed down. Yea!! So on Friday Mike and Nate went shooting and Grandpa took the kids for a ride on the tubes. They were all smiles. On Friday afternoon Nate and Natalie went to The Ashby's in Sandy to stay and visit. And then on Saturday Becky and Mike Headed home. We were totally lost when everyone was gone so we went and took Calvins Big Truck back to Salt Lake and went to dinner after killing some time walking through a restaraunt supply store. We had such an enjoyable Christmas with everyone here. I wouldn't trade being a grandma for anything, I love all my sweet little grandkids. (My own kids are O.K. too) I hope you all had a terrific Christmas too.

O.K. so I figure Tammy is not going to look at this before tomorrow so here are some pictures of her table and vanity. Natalie and Nate are supposed to be heading down tonight if the weather is good enough for them to leave rupert. He had to work a full day first though so we aren't sure what time they will even get to leave. I hope they are all safe. I am really excited to have them come down but I really worry about the roads. They said they have 1 1/2 feet of snow right now and another storm is on the way. I think I kindof got the blog list thing figured out. I think I just have to figure out how to become a follower on everyones blogs and then I can add them to my list. I do have a lot of fun with all this stuff, It's fun to try to figure things out on it. I think I better go and check on the turkey and see if it's done. I hope everyone has a terrific, wonderful, Happy Christmas.

Wow time really does fly. I can't believe It is almost Christmas already!!!! It has been a very busy month and I haven't even had the time to write on the blog or look at everybody elses. So tonight is the night that I am reading and writing. After thanksgiving Darin (Tammy's husband) asked me if I thought we could build a kitchen table for Tammy for Christmas. Well we all know I couldn't turn down a chance to play with some wood so Of course I said "SURE". Wow what a project, I will put pictures on here after christmas in case tammy happens to read this. She knows she's getting a table because the beans have been spilt like 3 times. It has turned out sooooo good. Darin has put a ton of work on it and I think he has really enjoyed making it. Any way I will put 2 coats of poly urathane on it tomorrow and it will be done ( Yea, Yea, Yea,) He also has refinished a desk and made it into a vanity for her. He is really excited. Becky and Mike came up on Dec. 9th to stay until Christmas and we have been having a blast!!! I have been getting to enjoy both Nayeli and Zack and I have loved it. Natalie and Nate will be here on Christmas Eve so we can enjoy Sara, Corbin and Keagan too. I am sooooooooooo excited, I love Christmas because everyone is sooo happy to get to be with each other. Nate says he wants everyone to crash at our house so we can get up at 2:00 to open presents. ( I think he's nuts) but it will be great to have everyone here. I think Tom and Gwen and Tammy and Darin are excited too. We are going to have our first Annual Jackson family Christmas Party on Christmas Eve. It should be a great time. I hope all of you will have a super Christmas too. I love you all.

So I decided that our blog needed a little spice and I found polka dots!! Sorry Nate but your choice of background and such was a little boring, I didn't notice though until I started looking at other blogs that had more pizazz....
- Can you guess who? :)

So we managed to quit pukeing long enough to go out and slaughter a pine tree in the name of Christmas spirit. There were a couple of trees that I wanted moved or rather out of the way. Natalie voted for the Charley Brown Christmas tree instead of a larger one that we would have to whittle down. As we all know she carries the majority of the vote so the ugly tree is in the house.
It has been almost a week and we haven't got to any decorations yet. Hopefully we will get around to it this weekend.

O.K. I guess it's time to let everyone know that we had a great thanksgiving too. We have 5 birthdays in the month of November so the first one was Mikes. I took off work on Mon. the 17th and went with Calvin to St. George so we could give dad his birthday present and visit with him for just a short minute. Then we went to Cedar City and took Becky and Mike to lunch for Mikes Birthday and gave him his present..... The following Sunday was Natalies birthday so we were planning on going to Rupert on the 22nd to take her present and see her, but she was coming to Salt Lake with Nate to sell thier Car thingy (SUV). We didn't have to go to Rupert to find her so we went to Salt Lake and took their family to dinner as well. Then came Zackary, He was born on the 22nd of November (now we have 6 birthdays in Nov.). We had gone back to Cedar and got Nayeli to come and stay at Grandma and Grandpas while Mom and Dad waited for Zack to arrive. We brought her home on Thanksgiving day and got to hold the baby for a quick love and then we loaded every one up and we all went to St. George to go to dinner with dad and Dockie. The line at Chuck-a-rama was absolutely insane. I think nobody in St. Gearge ate dinner at home that day. Any way dinner was really good and then we went to Dad and Dockies house after so they could see Zack too. It was a really nice day and after we had spent a couple of hours visiting we headed back home. We got to Pine canyon at about 9:45 p.m. Then this last Sunday Gwen and Corbin both had birthdays. We made a combination birthday and thanksgiving dinner on Saturday to celebrate and it's a good thing we did because Gwen got the flu the next day for her birthday. (poor thing, this flu is MEAN) It was so great to have Dawny and Jeff come over and have dinner with us. I didn't tell them what we were doing because I didn't want them to back out. We all had a fun evening . My Christmas decorations are all up now and we can start working on the birthdays for Dec. (Becky)

Wow I just looked outside and it is awful looking and cold. I guess winter has to come some time though, even if I don't like being cold.