What a weekend!

Saturday we all got up early (for a Saturday)... Mikey and Hannah went with Meme and Papaw just before 9am to Home Depot to make an "art easel". Cathy and I arrived at church at 10 for a choir rehearsal until noon. We're getting ready for our Christmas production on the 13th and 14th. After choir we went to Toys backwards R Us to get some presents for the kids... for Hannah we got a __________ and a _______ ________ and a ___ of ______ _________, and for Mikey we got a __ _______ and a _____________ and a ___ of _______ for his ________ (actual names of toys removed because, you know, Mikey does know how to read!) After we left TbRU we dropped the loot off at home and picked up the kids, and then I dropped all of them off at home and went straight to drama rehearsal for the production! After that I came home and had a little bit of down time... Cathy had been getting Hannah ready to go take Christmas pictures at Sears. That appointment was at 6:30... after trying to get a almost-1-year-old to smile for about a half hour or so, we were all pooped.

Today after church Cathy has grocery shopping to do, and then we're going to go to Bass Pro Shop for some kids activities they have this month... rumor is that Mikey will be able to make a reindeer hat today! Tonight I have another drama rehearsal, and also tonight if I get done with that in time, I want to take Mikey to the "Bethlehem Walk" that the church around the corner does every year... they have a huge field behind their church, and they set it up with live animals and stations and the "audience" actually walks through the drama, the story of Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem for Jesus to be born. We discovered it 4-5 years ago when I drove by there one weekend and saw a CAMEL out there! It's a little bit campy (these are just volunteers from the congregation after all, not professional actors) but it's a lot of fun for kids. Hopefully we'll have time for that!

I'd better put my necktie on for church... the game's about to begin!