December 27, 2008

• The “gremlins” have struck again!

  Most of the local grands came over for a while Christmas afternoon while their mom and Avery had to work.

  This was my village before they arrived.

  These pictures are just a bit blurry—sorry.

  

  Secondary shelves with older buildings.  These were left alone.

  

  Hmmm—how did those carolers get up on top of the school, especially having to haul the baby buggy up there, too!  

  And the pigs escaped from the barn and decided to attend church in the upper right corner!

  

  And, doesn’t every coffee shop have a slide up on top??  With a sheep at the bottom, no less.  Guess you can work off some of your hyperactivity after drinking all that caffeine???

  

  Those were the main things. 

  Now, tomorrow they will all be here, along with Ken’s sis and hubby, and a sis-in-law.  Let’s see what happens to my village then.  Hopefully, they won’t read this before then and get “ideas”!!  lol

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  Granddaughter, Mindy, came up from Nashville to her boyfriend’s parents place for Christmas.  They stopped in for a visit yesterday afternoon. Was so nice seeing them.  She brought a copy of their demo CD for us.  I think it is so good!  They wrote 3 of the songs.  I think I have put all three up on here—I know I did two for sure.  She said it is so hard to do any singing together with Hannah.  Hannah’s hours at Walgreens were such that she had to close the store each night she worked, which made it hard to go and sing anyplace.  Now, Hannah has been promoted to a manager, and will get out earlier.

  We found out that Mindy’s boyfriend, Andy, is moving down to Nashville now.  He worked in the corporate office of Ashley Furniture over in western Wisconsin.  Guess he really missed Mindy, and didn’t like sitting at a computer all day.  He was able to get a job at an Ashley furniture store a couple towns away from Mindy, and has an apartment there, too.  It is in Brentwood, which he says is a quite wealthy suburb of Nashville, and the Ashley store there has not had any slowdown in their business.  He says he will enjoy dealing with people again—instead of being stuck in an office.

  They were leaving for Nashville this morning.  His parents are driving down, too, along with some other relatives—a 5-vehicle entourage!!  Each will be carrying some of his things down, too.  His family all has to be back up here by Monday morning for work!! 

  I was really upset after they left.  Realized I forgot to take any pictures!!  Who knows when we will see them again??

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  Won’t be commenting until after tomorrow or later.  Too much to do.  Just had to take a break to rest my feet!

  Have a great weekend!

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