Sunday Before Christmas

We had a really wonderful Sunday that is until we got home just now at 8:30 pm. We had an easy morning not leaving for church until 9:15 am followed by  Rick Kaisner having the morning message, lunch and then Mike Rieker having the afternoon message. Joan made cupcakes to celebrate Jesus' birthday with her Sunday School class.

She made 2 dozen cupcakes and thought that would be plenty but ended up with 25 kids.  Thankfully 1 child didn't like cupcakes and didn't want one. After church Joan drove to Morton to pick up Nancy while we drove straight to Methodist to visit Fedi. He is looking better and feeling better but still most likely won't be released until Wednesday.  From there we came home to let the dogs out for the 45 minutes we were home before leaving for Avanti's and then the Festival of Lights this time taking Nancy, Joan, Faith, Mackenson and Berlica and we met Kathy at Avanti's. After a good dinner we started the drive to the Festival of Lights. Bad idea to go on the Sunday before Christmas. We were in line for well over an hour. Below is the line up of cars heading up the hill to the light show. The line behind us was just as long.

 The long wait gave us plenty of time to sing lots of Christmas carols and other songs. Nancy was in her glory. She knows most of the carols and loves singing. She also really loves Christmas lights exclaiming over and over at the displays. 

 The weather was perfect, not too cold and a full moon made for perfect viewing of almost a million lights. 

All of this was fun, even with the long wait, it wasn't until we reached home that we had the problem. We opened the door to let 2 very excited dogs out and the smell of a terrible accident hit us like a ton of bricks.  I started searching and couldn't find any problem but knew this smell was much too terrible to just be gas. After grabbing a flash light and searching the entire first floor and finding nothing I was starting to doubt but then started climbing the stairs. One of the dogs  had explosive diarrhea in the upstairs hall way splattering half way up the wall. I grabbed a gallon size zip lock bag and paper towels, Mark brought up bleach and within 10 minutes not only was everything scrubbed even the smell was gone. It was much too long of a time to leave the poor dogs inside but we had no idea it would take that long to eat and drive through the lights.  Not a very nice ending to a very nice rest of the day. The family down in Gulf Shores are having beautiful warm weather. Sarah sent the picture below of sunrise.

Rachel posted the short video below of her kids boogie boarding and what ever that wake boarding thing is called Logan is doing in the Gulf of Mexico December 23rd 2018.