Good Evening, Everyone!

It has been a while since I have written anything, so decided maybe it was time to do so.  We are looking forward to Christmas with most of the family being able to attend.

Grandpa was supposed to return to Iowa City today for the biopsy, etc., but the weather last night did not sound good at all, and it has been terribly cold today, but sunny, so probably could have made it, but, we neither one felt good about it and we certainly didn't want to jeopardize Delana, since she was going to do the driving.  We appreciate her changing work schedule so she would have been able to go.  Next time, which will be after January 1st, we will probably just drive out the day before and if necessary, stay the second night too.  They had his biopsy scheduled for 3:45PM and we were supposed to be out there by 8:00AM.  This sounded crazy to me, but, guess they wanted to do it all in one day.  I'd almost rather make 2 trips and not have such a tiring day for Dad.  Oh, well, we'll see what happens later on.

Are you all done shopping?  I am pretty much done.  If I get back to Pella, will look for one more thing.  I did get the Christmas cards out  earlier, which is a first for me.  I don't enjoy that job, but, do enjoy the cards from other people.

Sounds like Sarina and Stephanie have really been bombarded with exams this week.  I'm sure you both deserve a well earned break.  Will look forward to seeing you both soon.  Also, Eric, Rich, Denice, Jamie and Kendra.

We did have a little snow here last night, but, more out toward Eastern Iowa, which is where we were headed.  Supposed to snow again on Friday sometime.  Didn't tell you the high for today was 8 degrees.  It is back to 4 degrees already at 6:30PM.  Oh, good old Iowa weather!!!!  I'm sure Denice & family will really enjoy the weather, if it is this cold.  Hopefully, it will be nicer then.

Well, Wheel of Fortune is about to come on, so will sign off for now.  Keep warm and if you are driving, please drive carefully, and those flying we trust all goes well there too.  Will be praying for all of you.

Love to all,
Mom/Grandma

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Hello Family!

The snow has come in Oklahoma. We got a few inches on Thursday so exams were cancelled on Thursday and Friday so now we have double the exams next week... ha. As much as we love the freedom of snow days... the double workload that follows isn't always as much fun.

I second what mom said about Thanksgiving! That was so fun! I loved the craft so I'm looking forward to the next one! It was so fun to play with Payton and Micah, they have gotten so big! Hopefully we can see their little faces again at Christmas.

We took some photos in the snow yesterday for the Christmas Card from our college house. So I will be getting those in the mail to you all soon. Here is one of the pictures from our cold adventure.
Any interesting news on the Iowa home front?

I better get back to studying now. Love you all! Enjoy your day :)

Sarina

Post Thanksgiving Note

It really pays to get on this a little more often - it always takes me a little bit to remember all I have to do to even get to this point.
We really enjoyed Thanksgiving Day with everyone - thanks to Darla for hosting that one!!  You did a great job!  Now we are all looking forward to all the Christmas things going on - the calendar is filling up believe it or not - between family and church things and both of our other jobs we will be partied out by the time it is over with.
Everyone needs to be prepared for some fun on Christmas day - I have several games planned and am working on another craft for those interested in that.  I am so excited that I have this friday through Sunday off to, of course, go shopping and then get some other things done as well.  I have a ladies activity to fix food for on friday and then a member of our church passed away and her memorial service is on saturday and need to fix some food for that too. Always something - but I would be bored if there wasn't always something.
As I was sitting here I realized that Eric had told me that they would be leaving Japan on Wednesday so that means he is probably in transit as I am writing this.  Can't wait to see that guy in not too many more days!
Have a great week everyone!!

Delana