I started my own list of things I wanted to do, get and eat in the US. I know you all have things you want to do while we’re there too so I thought this would be the ideal place to collect everything together. Edit this page from the Manage -> Pages tab.
Eat:
- Cube steak
- Tator tots
- at IHOP
- at Macayo’s for big family dinner as Christmas present – kids with babysitter
- Orange Juliuses
- Dippin’ Dots
Mom & Dad to bring:
- Crisp Meat & Crisp Bean burritos from Fiesta Ole – for Amy & Alissa
- Wii
- Dad’s Taco sauce
I am to bring:
- Wheel.5 of spicy cheese
- Money for Becki
- Recipe program
Other:
- Buy hymn books (Mom already has them for you! I will bring them.)
- Birthday Party for all of us including present exchange and favourite foods buffet
- Visit library
- Buy Macayo’s Green Enchilada Sauce to take home
- Make clothes for Fergus
See Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – released 21 November!!– they’ve moved it to next July instead. Boo!
kirk0217 said,
11 June 2008 at 8:25 pm
This sounds like fun. I am very happy to bring our assigned stuff.
beckilynn said,
31 July 2008 at 5:58 pm
So I’ve been thinking that not only should we do the birthday thing, but maybe a Merry Thanksgiving instead of a Merry Christmas? We’d have to shop earlier, but then we could all see each other open our gifts….
Just an idea.
amypeech said,
3 August 2008 at 8:32 am
Our grapevine system of communication has failed!
I decided what I’d like for Christmas is to have a nice long dinner somewhere while the kids had a sitter. Then we could get up to all kinds of hijinks. So I thought that everyone could pay for themselves and those two or three hours would be the present.
So we could add a white elephant type thing to that to make it more Christmas-y? And silly hats always help.
verbosevixen said,
8 October 2008 at 6:42 pm
I love the idea of a white elephant exchange at the dinner. Great suggestion to bring gifts Becki! It’s nice to have us all together, we should take advantage of it.
verbosevixen said,
8 October 2008 at 6:43 pm
Oh, and I want to find silly hats…I’ve made a ‘Skullet’ for Dad out of my hair that I had cut a few months ago. It makes me laugh when I look at it.
susanne3n said,
11 November 2008 at 10:42 pm
I guess I need some clarification here about Merry Thanksgiving . . . do you want to bring gifts for each other to open as a ‘family’ Christmas in November? And are we going to go out together (sans kids) as a Christmas gift to each other or as Amy & Kara’s gift to each of us?
I’m so confused!!!!!
Since Amy and Kara are leaving Thursday, as in day after tomorrow!!!, I think we ought to get this clarified! LOL
amypeech said,
12 November 2008 at 10:03 am
The only thing I knew about the Merry Thanksgiving was what you told me last Friday.
As far as I knew the Christmas dinner was for everyone to pay for themselves and the time together was the present. We were also going to do a White Elephant exchange.
We’re having a group birthday party and buffet, we could incorporate Christmas into that since it is Jesus’ birthday too.
I’ve become very cynical about objects lately. So I’d value our time together a lot more than a book or CD that I could very easily buy myself any time I wanted.
I’m easy though, I’ll participate with whatever fun thing comes my way.