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The Chocolate dippers

Rob and Tammie, Kyle, Brett, Leslie, Tiffany with Katelyn

At Thanksgiving, when all my kids were here, we spent a day dipping chocolates. Everyone got into the act (or tended kids while we were doing it). I was surprised how well some of them did. I guess you can tell this has been a tradition in our home for a lot of years. Yum! Yum!

Kyle and MiKell, David, Shanalee and Josh

David and I have been happily married for 39 years. We have the 6 best kids in the world who have turned out to be quite exceptional adults despite having us for parents. And to make it even better, these 6 exceptional kids have married 6 exceptional spouses. Thus it stands to reason that our grandchildren are also exceptional. (I am really not prejudice, this is all true) David and I love life, each other, and the Lord. We are currently serving a mission in Taichung Taiwan and loving it. We miss our 21 grandkids but trust their parents to do a fine job rearing them without us there to help.

We are so grateful to all those wonderful people who have been important in our lives and had such positive influence on us and our children. Thank you.

Man hours spent in making our 2010 gingerbread house

Total hours to completion = 107 man hours
Thur. Dec 9 - 1 hour (finishing touches)
Wed. Dec. 8 - 19.5 hours (David, Kyle, Brett and I)
Tues. Dec. 7 - 20 hours (David, Brett and I)
Mon. Dec. 6 - 7 hours (and even more building & decorating)
Sun. Dec. 5 - 9 hours (building, decorating and making more gingerbread)
Sat. Dec. 4 - 6.5 hours (more building & decorating)
Fri. Dec 3 - 8 hours (building & decorating)
Thur. Dec 2 - 3 hours (began putting walls together)
Wed. Dec 1 - 3 hours (poured the candy windows)
Tues. Nov. 30 - 1 hour (made, baked and cut one more batch of gingerbread for a total of 17 batches)
Mon., Nov. 29 - 1 hour (finished baking and cutting)
Sun., Nov. 28 - .5 hours (made more gingerbread)
Sat., Nov. 27 - 3 hours (more baking and cutting)
Fri., Nov. 26 - 3 hours (continued baking and cutting gingerbread pieces)
Thur., Nov.25 - 1.5 hours (began baking gingerbread)
Mon., Nov. 22 - 3 hours (made the rest of the gingerbread-15 batches all together)
Sat., Nov. 20 - 1 hour (began making gingerbread)
Fri., Nov. 19 - 8 hours (finished drawings and made pattern pieces)
Thur., Nov. 18 - 4 hours (architectual drawing)
Wed., Nov. 17 - 2 hours (architectual drawing)
Tuesday, Nov. 16 - 1.5 hours (design drawing)
Sunday, Nov. 14 - .5 hours (design work)

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