You Tube link

Here is the link to the 2007 Hutchinson Christmas Puppet Show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKkgGx9ibQ

We really enjoyed it! Harvey's guest appearance was a great touch!

2007 Hutchinson Family Christmas pageant

I was finally able to upload the Hutchinson Family Christmas pageant video to YouTube. The name of the video is something like 2007 Hutchinson Family Christmas pageant; I don't remember the exact name I used and I don't know how to add a link to it in the blog. If anyone can add the link to the blog, please feel free to do so. I don't suspect many outside our family will enjoy it as much as we do so I won't be disappointed to see any negative reviews from people who might inadvertently watch it. It is fun to know that we have now made the national stage, however.

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and will enjoy a very Happy New Year.

Christmas 2007

Well, Christmas 2007 has now come and it is almost over. Hillary, Charlie and their family and Kurt, Heather and Harvey joined us for the Christmas celebration. So that the two who are not with us, I video taped the Christmas pageant on my camera so that I could add it to the blog and Jana, Jason, Kari and Eric could feel like they were here with us. We enjoyed opening our presents and although we knew what some were, everyone surprised us with a gift or two. Jim wore his gift, a nice topcoat, to Church on Sunday so it wasn't a surprise to him (he helped pick it out so it truly wasn't a surprise). He is had to wear it down to Lauren's house to show it off. He looks very snappy in it. We hope that all of you have had a wonderful Christmas and will have a very Happy New Year. We look forward to having everyone here with us next year.

Love you all.

2 Sundays and 2 cars in a row

We had bad weather for the 2nd Sunday in a row. Today it was wind instead of snow. It didn't affect church, but our power was out for nine hours. Luckily we could go to church were they had heat and working bathrooms.

Jim was in a second accident on Tuesday morning. A man in a truck pulled out in front of him and Jim swerved into a snow bank to miss him. He messed up the driver's side of Dad's car. It is drivable, but will need some body work done on it.

They say things come in threes, but I'm not letting Jim drive my car! I hope you all have a Merry Christmas.

The Last 2 Weeks

Golly, things have been happening like crazy mad! Last week was my birthday, and Eric and I and another couple went to the Christmas concert with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Their special guest this year was the King Singer's. IT WAS AMAZING!

We had a really good time. Then, Jana and Addie came on Monday night and I got to hang out with them all day Tuesday. It was fun and Addie is super cute. We went to the Salt Lake temple, then headed down to Provo to see Jana's friends down there and also the payroll office. Then we headed up to Kaysville to drop her off at Grandma's. It was a pretty full day-and I was awfully tired, but we had a great time! Then, yesterday, Eric and I went to the Hogle Zoo with his nieces and nephew. We had an excellent time and here are some pictures from the zoo lights. It was pretty spectacular!

These next two pictures were taken through these special glasses that Eric's neices got. They made all the lights look like snowmen. We wanted to see if you could tell if we took a picture-and we think they turned out pretty darn cool.

And here is the illusive white alligator. I know that Jana, Mom, Dad and Jimmy have already seen one because we saw it at the Louisville Zoo-but it was under black light then. So, now it's in Utah and there was hardly anyone visiting him. How sad. But, now, for those of you who haven't seen a white alligator, here he is!

Lexi WON!

I forgot to post that Alexis won her bid for treasurer. She found out on Monday. I know I'm a bit late in notifying you. She's very excited. I hope this helps her self esteem and social life. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.

I've created a MONSTER of a tradition!

So when Alexis was in 2nd grade and Merrit was in kindergarten I started making their classes treats at Christmas and cupcakes for their birthdays. Ever since then they expect to have these things at these times. Well the treats I made were white chocolate covered pretzel rods that look like snowmen. It was fine when I only had to make them for 2 classes, but this year I had the great pleasure of doing them for 4 classes! I took about 5 1/2 hours yesterday and made 100 snowmen. I feel it's quite an accomplishment and am glad that Lexi will be going into middle school so I won't have to make for her any more. Here is what they look like:

I couldn't find any pretzel rods so I had to use pretzel logs instead. They aren't as cute when they are this short, but what are you going to do? I only had a couple with their scarfs on when I took the pictures. But eventually all had scarfs too. The kids got to pass them out today. They were so excited.

Snow day at Church

It began to snow last night about 9:00 PM and didn't stop until about 3:00 PM this afternoon. Because there was so much snow and the roads were pretty bad our Church meetings were canceled and we spent the day doing some things together, in addition to watching one full telecast of the Music and the Spoken Word and one partial telecast. We also played Monopoly (I won't say who won -- Mom says like I'm humble or something). We took a few pictures out the back window to show how much snow we received.




Mom also completed crocheting another creche that we are now placing under the Christmas tree. It is pretty cool -- I'll add a picture of it; I'm sure you will be impressed.



Love to all!!

More ELF Action

We thought we would get in on the action. The black picture is an ultrasound picture of Noah. He is actually looking at the camera. Who knew our baby could dance so well? Click Here

O.K., I felt left out too

We didn't have an eighth person so I just added a happy face to look at.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1439028703

Alexis felt left out of the last clip

http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=1438905786

Sorry, Jason, I just had to do one of my own

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1438646604

Our Christmas Day

We celebrated Christmas today as a family. It was fun because we didn't tell the kids we were going to do that. Charlie and I got all the presents wrapped lastnight and put them out so when the kids got up they could see them. They were so surprised and excited. We only got a few presents per child this year because we decided to invest in a Wii. The kids were pretty excited about that. For the most part, they loved their gifts. Only a few of the gifts we got them had low reviews from them. It was fun to be able to have our own little Christmas as a family before we head back to Michigan to have Christmas with the rest of our family. Can't wait to see everyone.

Christmas Jig

Here is our family dance for your enjoyment. Cross-eyed Joe is our adopted son.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1406741031

Student council debate

Alexis will be debating tomorrow, at her school, to be elected as treasurer of the school's student council. She is up against two other kids, all fifth graders. She's really excited about it and we all hope she wins. I plan on going to the debate tomorrow to give her some family support. She won't find out if she wins until Monday. We hope you can keep your thoughts with her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARI !!!!!!

One less vehicle

Jim spun out on some black ice yesterday morning on his way to seminary. He hit a mailbox that was on a tree stump and bent the frame of the truck. We're down to two cars for a while. The truck can't be fixed, once the frame is bent, it's over. That's the way life goes.

The Annie Hair

My Mom was always giving me a home perm. You'll notice most of the pictures of me look like this. Now you know why I never gave any of you a home perm!

We put an offer on the house this afternoon. Now we just wait to see how the sellers respond. I'll let you know. Keep your fingers crossed for us.

Snow Day!

We had an ice storm come through last night. It was bad enough to cancel school for the day. They didn't call it until late though so Charlie had already gone in to work. He didn't mind though. It allowed him to get some grades put into the computer. He has a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will have a sub for the day. Going in this morning helped him prepare for that too. It looks like he has a broken finger. It happened at wrestling practice. He went to a family doctor who has sent him to an orthopedic doctor. That is the appointment tomorrow. He is suppose to be able to confirm if it's actually broken. He's had the injury for about 3 weeks now. He thought it was just dislocated, but it hasn't gotten any better, in fact it's still pretty swollen and painful. We have decided to make an offer on that house today. I haven't called out realtor to make the appointment yet though. We had tentatively set it up for 6 pm but now that we don't have school, we might be able to do it earlier. I'll let you know how it goes. I've also posted some pictures from our second significant snow storm. It happened last week. If you can tell from the pictures, the snow was up to Jaxson's mid-thigh. It was pretty deep, but they didn't call off school. I have a feeling it takes a huge storm for them to school around here.