It's the most wonderful time of the year! Mark your calendars and
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Wednesday, November 21: Annual Loveridge Pie Pig-Out!
6:30 p.m. Hosted by Tim and Tiffany. Please bring your favorite pie and a simple hors d'oeuvre to share.
Thanksgiving Day:
8:00 Guys Golfing
9:30 Stake Thanksgiving Devotional (Mom is for sure planning to go if anyone wants to join her)
2:00 Thanksgiving Dinner at Chuck-a-Rama. Tiffany will go at 1:00 to wait in line.
4:00 Pie/movies/hanging out at Kim and John's that afternoon and evening!
Day After Thanksgiving:
Fun with the girls (brunch or some movie marathon-Pride & Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables)
Misc. December:
- Sunday, December 2: First Presidency Christmas Devotional 6:00 p.m.
- Monday, December 17: Family Home Evening, hosted by Kim and John. Don't forget about Santa!
- Monday/Tuesday, December 17-18: Jeff's Octappella Concert. Tickets will be available through Arttix...if it's reserved seating, let's buy our tickets all together.
- Saturday, December 22: Lollipops concert at Abravanel Hall, 12:30 p.m. If you want to ride Trax downtown, here is the link: http://www.rideuta.com/ . Family pass is $10/round-trip.
Christmas Eve:
9:00 Breakfast...Bowling? (optional...whoever wants to go)
4:00-7:00 Loveridge Festivities!
Christmas Day!Open arrival: if you'd like, come to Mom and Dad's any time of day. Adult/grandchildren gifts will be exchanged as each family arrives, instead of all at once. This means adults and their kids exchanging gifts to/from Mom and Dad Loveridge only. This is NOT cousins giving to each other. Take gifts to cars.
4:00 Everyone try to arrive by this time to get ready for dinner (have your dish already prepared).
5:00 Dinner: Mom will determine menu later.
No agenda: adult siblings will exchange gifts to each other at some point (ie. the family/couple exchange) and we'll just hang out and have fun! If this doesn't work out with your Christmas Day plans, feel free to come to the Loveridge house any time you can make it.
Post-Christmas:
December 27th: Carrie and Natalie B.'s Birthdays
End of December: Somewhere around here, Kim's baby is due!
Monday, December 31: New Year's Eve
Looking ahead:
January 2. 2008: Thomas' 5th Birthday (FYI: Tim's parents come home from their mission at 11:00 p.m)!
January 4, 2008: Joshua's 7th Birthday
January 6, 2008: Roger & Carol's homecoming in Logan
-Tiffany
6 comments:
Don't know why I bother to format anything...blogger just does what it wants sometimes! Hope you can read it all.
Good job Tiff! Hey...sorry i'm retarded, but I'm a little confused on the gifts opening. You said adults as they arrive, but then later, you have the adult exchange as well. I think it would be neat to see what everyone got everyone- including what people got mom and dad. So, I hope we aren't just doing that as people arrive, but waiting until we're all together. I think it's fine to do kids separately, but I think we should still do adults together! Also, Jennifer had mentioned going to the festival of trees. We get home from Boise on Friday night, and we were planning on going on Saturday sometime- Dec 1st. It would be fun if everyone wanted to go. I don't know when Jen decided she wanted to go, but that's when we'll be going! Yeah for the holidays! Unfortunately, we will miss the pie pigout this year :( we'll be in Boise! Thanks again for puting this up Tiff.
Carrie-just to clarify...the thing some family members kept saying was how crazy gift opening is on Christmas; one big present-opening session, trying to get the kids to pay attention (heck, even trying to get all the adults to pay attention!) etc. Mom really wanted to break it up into different segments.
In particular, Mom ESPECIALLY wanted to do the adult gifts that way (ie. NOT the couple exchange but Mom and Dad's gift to you & Josh, and your gift to them)...as people arrived individually.
The cousins will give/receive gifts from Gma and Gpa later, and THEN the adults will do their separate exchange at some point after that. It just makes less craziness and more enjoyable for all who want to see.
If you really want to see what each adult gives Mom and Dad when they arrive, then come early and I guess you'll see everyone!
For what it's worth(hehehe), I actually like the idea of making gift-giving more low-key for the individuals involved. I've thought it for years. It's still fun to see what other people give and get, but if you get down to basics, it's a simple gift from one person to the next, minus all the ceremony and spectatorship (hey, if Jennifer can make up her own words, so can I)!
I'm going out on a limb that some of you might understand what I'm referring to. It's just making less show and going back to basics. Is this another can of worms?
I just wanted to make sure that you and my doctor and John weren't conspiring for a tax deduction. The baby is coming in January.
What's your duedate, then? I think I remember hearing you guys joke about the tax deduction several months ago. . .December must have stuck in my brain!
Yet another clarification about gift-giving! Tim read the calendar and said I made a mistake about the kids' gift from Gma/Gpa. On Christmas Day, grandchildren will open/give gifts to/from Gma and Gpa as they arrive, along with their parents, not later with the cousins.
Cousins will still have their own exchange (just to and from each other); we were thinking for C. Eve, but we could still do it on Christmas Day.
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