Where in the World is the Gibson Family?: 01/01/2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

You know you're too busy when...

I like to pride myself on my multi-tasking abilites, but sometimes I get a little carried away.

Maybe you're too busy when you're driving with your 9-year-old and he sincerely asks, "Is there a class to learn to drive with your knees?"

Sunday, January 25, 2009

January Birthdays

With a family this big it seems like there's always a birthday lurking around the next corner. This month we celebrated Hannah and Ben and Dorothy's birthdays.

David and Ben drove out to Boston to go to lunch with Hannah and do a little shopping for their birthdays. After an Indian lunch, they stopped by Cheescake Factory and picked up Birthday Cheesecake.

Dorothy's birthday is this coming week, but they left for a cruise last Friday, so we took her to dinner at her favorite sushi restaurant on Thursday to celebrate her birthday. David called ahead and planned a little Birthday surprise for her. Whe needs birthday cake when you can have Birthday Sushi?

Isn't that hilarious? When David called the restaurant to make arrangements, they said, "Nobody's asked us to do that before", but they promised to do their best. (In case your wondering, the words were made out of spicy shrimp chopped up, formed, and cooked to set the letters. They tasted great!)

Happy Birthday!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Night Skiing and Boarding

Trip # 1 was David and Hannah hitting the slopes.

Trip #2 David, Chris, Parker, McKay, Bryson, and our Grandson John. This was McKay's first try at snowboarding. He picked it up really fast.

David giving McKay lessons.

Parker

John

For your viewing enjoyment, I have include a couple of video snippets.

Trip #3 David, Chris, Parker, McKay, and Bryson on $10 night at Jiminy Peak.

Bryson, watch out for that tree!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and everything in between

We had a Christmas Party the Saturday before Christmas at our house with friends and neighbors. We live in a more rural area, so people don't get out to meet their neighbors often. We introduced the neighbors on one side of our house to the neighbors on the other side. They've lived here longer than we have! I'm used to knowing all my neighbors, so I find it really weird that they didn't know each other at least by sight.

David's brother Jon also came to stay with us since he had a cold and Walt was coming home, so he couldn't stay up at the farm.

Christmas Eve we had David's kids over for brunch, Gingerbread houses and dinner.

Shhhh...they're concentrating.

Can you believe I wasn't up until 1 am wrapping presents on Christmas Eve? I always seem to do that. I just like to see what I have for the kids all at once before wrapping it so I make sure I don't get them too much or too little. This usually means I do most of my wrapping Christmas Eve. Which I did, but Hannah and Bryson helped and I got started earlier in the evening, so I wasn't up so late.

Christmas day was more low key. McKay got the sword he wanted, Parker got a new calculator and new scriptures, Bryson got software to put his compositions on sheet music and a box for putting his pokemon cards in (along with plenty of other things).

Several of the Young Women from the Ward came over for a Book of Mormon reading marathon. 28 hours reading with a 2 1/2 hour break for sleeping. It took me days to recover, but they loved it!

Saturday was Nathan's birthday party. On the menu: Lobster, baked potatoes, and corn.

We spent New Year's Eve with Nathan, Rachel, and Rachel's family, Jon, Julianna (Joyce's step-daughter) and Juliana's friend Brianna from Walt and Alice's ward. We had lots of snacks then a tense game of Phase 10 which ended minutes after midnight. The kids played games and watched movies downstairs. Juliana and Brianna stayed up and watched a movie after we sent everyone else to bed.