As we journey together “let us think of ways to motivate one another in acts of love and good works”(Hebrews 10:24 NLT)

* Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here’s what you’re supposed to do… Just copy this email/post and paste into a new e-mail/post to share with others. Change all the answers so that they apply to you…. here’s mine….. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper mostly 2. Real tree or Artificial? This year real. I was so excited a gentleman in our church gave us a free real tree 3. When do you put up the tree? usually the weekend after Thanksgiving 4. When do you take the tree down? New Years Day 5. Favorite gift received as a child? bicycle 6. Hardest person to buy for? My dad and brothers! 7. Easiest person to buy for? My kids they have such easy likes! 8. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, but is a mostly broken..A hand me down so i didn’t even put it out this year 9. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail and for the last two years handmade cards too! 10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don’t remember 11. When do you start shopping for Christmas? November 12. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I also don’t remember but I really don’t think so 13. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? butterscotch rice crispie candy with a layer of chocolate in the middle 14. Lights on the tree? Yes definitely 15. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night and Carol of the Bells 16. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel…that is until my husband gets a pastorate and then we will travel afterward 17. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Yes – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Doner, Blitzen, and Rudolf … 18. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star 19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning..But someday when my husband gets a pastorate we will open stockings Christmas eve 20. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Santa Claus! And how he seems to sound so much like God! You notice that he has a lot of names and seems to be all knowing and ever present – “he see’s you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good”…. that’s worrisome!!! I guess this has affected us more this year than ever before cuz Tornado has decided that God isn’t real cuz he hasn’t seen him on TV GRRRR Frustrating for a pastors family 21. Favorite ornament theme or color? Red and silver with white lights..Lots of greenery around the house and Maroon bows to accent it with 22. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham 23. What do you want for Christmas this year? To sleep in …My parents are terrible about wanting the kids to get up! 24. Who is most likely to respond to this? I have NO IDEA! 1. Do you read the Christmas story from the Bible with family? Yes – usually my husband reads it we do it a lot during the coming days but my parents don’t really have that focus 2. What is your favorite Christmas movie? Mine is White Christmas. Danny Kaye is one of my favorites 3. Do you pretend Santa for your kids – NO! Though Tornado thinks he is real cuz he’s seem him on TV we have had a real struggle with that this Christmas 4. Do you hang stockings? Where and how? More like propped under the tree But we do have them 5. Does your family have any birthdays near Christmas? My uncles And Vug’s is near thanksgiving

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Ok So this weekend hubby and I and the three kids went to a church about three hours away. Hubby is a possible candidate there and we had a church desert and then hubby was also going to be speaking Sunday during all three services. Well we got there around 1:30 had lunch and then hubby and I got up at 4 to take our showers and get the kids ready. There was an older husband and wife who were coming to have dinner with us at 5 and then the church fellowship was at 6:30. Well about 4:45 the doorbell rings…LUCKILY I was dressed. Hubby made the comment WOW SO AND SO ARE EARLY…I went to the door who should be standing there BUT A LOCAL POLICE OFFICER!.. UH OH what on earth was going on??? I said hello and he proceeded to interrogate me about why we were in this house that had not been inhabited for a couple of years…GULP! I tried to explain but he was insisting that what I was saying was not true finally in desperation I called for Hubby.. I said “Honey” And he yelled back What do you what” in a rather frustrated tone because he was wrestling a naked 3 year old. And i quickly yelled back there is a police officer at the door. Hubby came out trying to keep Tornado at bay! We started throwing out name from the church and finally we got to a name that shall remain unstated and the officer repeated the name and said BOY that name sounds really familiar…I think I just arrested him a few days ago. Forgetting he was a police officer I said I don’t think you would have arrested this guy…the questioning went on for another two minutes and finally he smiled and said my name is ……and he shook our hands and that was that. I fell to the steps with a smile! I began to think man that last name sounds familiar and I remember one of the deacon’s wives telling me her son was an officer in the town!!!. I connected the dots after he left. That guy who had just been arrested was the officer’s brother-in-law!!!..We were the recipients of a practical joke. One that was talked about for the rest of the weekend…Even one of hubbies questions that night was ..Do you have a criminal record..To which hubby responded with..Not until tonight! Later after all was said and done the officer stopped by the church and Tornado went up and asked him for his gun…the officer said no to which Tornado responded with asking for his keys…to which he said YES…SO tornado ran around for a while with all the keys to all the businesses in town…when he was bored with them he went back and gave the officer his keys back and said NOW GIVE ME YOU GUN. to which the officer said no..he is a persistent little booger..AND BRAVE TOO!

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