Our Advent activities for the day were quite interesting.
The day started, and we were off to church only to get there 10 minutes late. Then, we had made arrangements with some friends to first come over for lunch after church and then to watch Owen and Letty while Daddy and Mommy took Ivy to a Christmas/Nutcracker-excerpt dance recital. When we came home from church, we found our friends starting to back down our driveway as they thought we weren't coming. We walked in through the door expecting to have nicely baked potatoes ready to come out of the oven only to find that the potatoes are still raw and our oven not turning on. Uh oh! Is our oven sick now?
Fortunately, the friends we had over are quite resourceful, and I always seem to learn SOMETHING from Sarah (one of the friends). (Thank you, Sarah, for ALWAYS teaching! :) ) This time I learned how to bake potatoes in the microwave. I also learned that in order to bake the potatoes in the microwave, you must first PUT them INTO the microwave. ;-) What a day (so far)!
Now, lunch was finally cooked, and we had to hurry up and eat to make it to our dance performance on time (and leave our guests to clean up the lunch table and tend to Owen and Letty). (Is this day over yet?!?) On our way to the dance recital, it dawned on me that I forgot my camera! Oops! (NO - it's not over yet!) :-)
While Letty was drinking her bottle and getting down for a nap with Sarah and Owen was getting to hang out and play with Justin, Ivy and her Daddy and Mommy enjoyed the Christmas dance performance and excerpts of specially-choreographed dances from the Nutcracker ballet. What a great performance! Ivy loved it and especially liked getting to see her Auntie Lily dance.
Once the performance was over, we returned home to visit with Justin and Sarah for a while until they had to leave. Then, we started to make homemade ice cream.
Ivy, Owen, and Mommy made the ice cream mixture, while...
...Daddy, Ivy, and Owen made the mixture into ice cream by adding ice and rock salt to the circling machine...
...and Letty had a FUN time hanging out with the cookbooks.
Well, like the rest of our day, the ice cream was not freezing the way it was suppose to. Needless to say, Daddy was NOT impressed...
...but Letty didn't seem to mind (she wasn't eating any of the ice cream anyways)! :-)
FINALLY, after a few hours of battling with the machine and our ears tired of hearing the annoying sound of the ice cream machine, the ice cream was in its eat-able stage. We tried to joke with Daddy by telling him that we weren't wanting to eat ice cream any more, but he didn't seem to find our joke that funny! He made sure that you enjoyed the ice cream!
All in all, we enjoyed our ice cream...
...with, OF COURSE, SPRINKLES!!!!
Our day FINALLY ended with reading the Bible - and what better way to end the day!
Behold your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. ~Zechariah 9:9
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