Barrett Family Christmas Party - December 13 ,2014

     The Annual Barrett Family Christmas Party was held in Terreton at Kathryn's house.  As always we had great food.  I wore my stretchy pants so I could be comfortable.  The participants were Kathryn's family, My family, Jimmy's family and Mom.  The program is as follows:

Kathryn asked me to read a story.  Payton was my helper along with Chelsi and Hailey holding up the props.  The name of the story is "Teach the Children".  Payton got to ring the jingle bells.

Brock revived the tradition of him and Kirk singing a duet.  They always sing something from the "Forgotten Carols".  Alex accompanied them on the piano with Kathryn turning the pages.  They really sound good together.

Even though, Jimmy and Stacey are divorced, she came and brought the kids.  I was glad.  They are still part of our family.

There is Grandma Barrett, Brock, Payton, Braden and Carrie.

Austin's part on the program was reading Luke 2 in the Bible.  This has been a tradition since we started the annual party.

Fun to see these girls together again.  Cousins and best friends, it can't get any better than this!

Butte Montana - December 12, 2014

We had a little visit to Butte, Montana today.  It started by meeting Mom and Jimmy at Sage Junction.  I got in their car, and we were off.  We did stop at Dale, Montana and had breakfast.  Everyone needs to stop here to have something to eat!  It is delicious!

We met my brother, Brad, and had a walk-a-bout in downtown Butte.  Here we are having a picture together.  (L to R)  Brad, Jimmy, Me and Mom.  Luckily Brad's arm was long enough to take the picture.

Just a few sights to see in Butte.  This building was the first skyscraper in the West.  I think it is still the tallest building there.

Brad posed with me to get this picture because it had my name.  We had lunch together and had a very nice visit.  I am very grateful that Jimmy called and invited me to go on this road trip.  I was able to give Brad his Christmas gift.

Making Cookies! December 9, 2014

My favorite thing to do is make cookies with my grandchildren.  Today Payton came over to help.

He loved turning on my bosch, hearing the noise and watching it mix up the ingredients.  He did help put all the ingredients in the bowl. We made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

He even got to wear an apron.  You can tell he really liked the dough we made.  Then we put cookies on plates and took some to his Dad and Grandpa at Agritech.  He even got to take a plate home to his Mom and Braden.

White Christmas December 6, 2014

So far we are not having much snow.  It will snow and then quickly melt away.  So our White Christmas is the play we went to.

The Play mill Theater puts this play on at Christmas time.  They put it on at the Colonial Theater in Idaho Falls.

Tyson was here for a couple of nights, so he came with us.  We first went to Jaker's for dinner.  Then we went to the play.  We really enjoyed it, except for Tyson, he thought he would enjoy it, but it had too much singing for him.  It was good for him to have a cultural experience.

A little surprise at work! December 1, 2014

     I had a little surprise at work today.  We have this 10:15 meeting everyday and they spotlight someone.  That someone was me today.

     They gave me this milky way candy bar!  Yum!  Then they asked me to tell something about myself that others don't know.  So I told everyone that I had a twin sister and if they saw me uptown and I acted like I didn't know them, it was my sister.  Then Ted wanted me to tell one of our funny stories. I told about the day that Shawn Walters went out to Terreton to do business with Kirk Egbert.  He was surprised when "I" answered the door.  He thought I was having an affair with Kirk, because he doesn't know Kathryn  exists.  So when he found Kirk, he told him he did not want to do business with him because of his poor moral values.  Boy was Kirk confused.  As they talked this out, Kirk told Shawn that his wife Kathryn and Clinton Arnold's wife were twin sisters.  A few months later I ran into Shawn and I said, so I heard that you met my twin sister.  He told me that he was sorry for having bad thoughts on me and Kirk.  This funny story had everyone laughing at Agritech.