I hate making sugar cookies. It's such a pain but the kids begged me to make some dough so that they could finally use the Star Wars cookie cutters I bought over a year ago. They had fun and it wasn't so bad.
Blake earned the Thomas S. Monson Scouting Award and this is the award he received. I have to admit, I don't like it. It's like a dog tag the military use and it's just kind of weird. Maybe it's just me? I'm proud of Blake for earning it, he said he was done earning Scout stuff when he got his Eagle.
My uncle died very unexpectedly in Dec. I'm not close with my dad's side of the family, they are all crazy and when my one aunt gave Blake beer when he was 3, I told my dad I was done going to his families things. I saw everyone at my Grandma's funeral 7 years ago and that's it. But Uncle Del who was married to my dad's sister Pam, they were the only normal, nice ones in my dad's family. They would come and visit us in CA when we were growing up and Del was just a really good guy. Plus my Aunt Pam has been to sweet and good to my mom through this whole divorce. She even came to my Nana's funeral to support my mom. We are so sad Del is gone. All of my siblings and I along with my mom got together to go to Del's funeral. It was really hard because it was the first time we have seen my dad with his new wife, ( he married the mistress) and it was the first time I've seen my dad in a while. I've chosen not to have a relationship with my dad right now, it's too hard and so dysfunctional. Anyways, we were all stressing about seeing my dad. We asked him not to come by us which of coarse he didn't listen. The funeral was very nice, a really great tribute to the amazing man my Uncle Del was. After the funeral, we all told my Aunt it was too hard to go to the luncheon with my dad there so we all hugged her and we went to our own lunch. It had been my mom's birthday the day before so it was a perfect time for us all to celebrate with her. After lunch we headed to the outlets at Traverse and did some Christmas shopping together. We had such a good time!
I gave blood for the first time in many, many years. It all went great until I sat down at the recovery station to eat my cookies and drink my juice. I guess right before I passed out I told the lady across from me, "I'm going to pass out if anyone needs to know". I don't know how long I was out, I've never passed out before! After trying to recover for 2 hours, Blake had to come and get me! Jason was out of town. The blood drive was at our church so a lot of people I know were there and saw everything. I was so so embarrassed! When Blake got there, two men had to walk me out to the car and that's when I text Jason and told him what happened and then said I did the walk of shame out of the cultural hall. I was still having a hard time when I got home and I had to miss Ashley's choir concert that night! I was so mad but thankfully, my mother in law went to see her so she had someone there to support her. Let's just say I won't be donating blood anytime soon!
Blake and Kyle had to go hand out at the mall a couple of Saturdays to take a poll for that Stat's class. They wanted to find out what super hero was best and see if wearing their Batman shirts would sway anyones answers.
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