Christmas Parties and Cement

Two subjects that definitely don't go together but that was my day and no they didn't coincide!

First off we had the last of our cement poured today, it was getting cold and we have a little snow on the ground, expecting more snow this weekend, so they actually used a blow torch to warm the ground first then poured the cement, let it cure for the day and luckily we had some sun to help, then they came back and covered it with insulated warming blankets for a few days. I am glad to finally have the mud and weeds gone and be able to use the cent for parking. It is going to be so nice for the kids in the spring too, they an ride bikes, skate, more room for chalk drawing etc.

Trevin had fun watching from the window! Cement trucks are very cool to a 4 year old, even if they do make you a litle late to preschool since they are in front of the driveway! LOL!

Then at night we went to Jarin's work Christmas party, we were to bring a white elephant gift each. We chose a touch ornament that lights up the lights on your Christmas tree when you touch it, we love ours, especially the kids, and i found them on clearance a while back and so picked them up pretty cheap to give as gifts. Then for the other gift we had a left over brand new smoke ring gun, we bought them for the whole family as gifts one year and they sent us extra, to fix it we only had to pay half for the extras but never used them all. Both items were a hit. So after the dinner from Joe Morley's (Yumm, although my pregnant nose and taste buds wouldn't let me enjoy the BBQ sauce at all!) We had the gift exchange, we all took turns alphabetically and Jarin kept getting the good gifts everyone wanted to steal from him! LOL! Every white elephant exchange has "THE" one present that makes it memorable, this time it was the toilet seat with the Hosts picture perfectly plastered on the inside of the lid!! It was a huge picture, and gave new meaning to "got your back" LOL! he rest of the night many jokes were made! And it came up a few times that it was the person's ID card picture and only two people had access tot the picture, one of which said it defiantly wasn't him, the other was Jarin. When asked he simply said that it wasn't him and he couldn't say who it was because his review is next month!! He had no idea when asked for the picture what it would be used for! It was great! Even the Host thanked him afterwards for it like a good sport, he made sure he knew it wasn't his idea but wouldn't reveal the source! It was a great night and thanks to Krista for babysitting.