Thursday, December 27, 2007

Carper New Years plans

We don't really have any plans for New Years. There is a party at church on New Year's Eve, but it isn't a full dinner and it doesn't start until 8:00. We always hate to be out on the road late on New Year's Eve... 25 miles on dark, icy road with a bunch of drunks is not our idea of fun. Since New Year's Eve is on a Monday, they are having Family Home Evening as the theme - the High Priests group is planning to teach people how to do family group sheets for genealogy. We're a bit more advanced than that in our genealogy, so that doesn't sound too fun. The Elder's quorum is boycotting the event because none of the presidency wanted to go to any of the planning meetings or the party.... I finally convinced them to get some nacho cheese in a can and some corn chips to contribute to the snacks at the party, so at least they will contribute that. There are only 3 active elders plus the 3 in the presidency and ALL of them live at least 20 miles from the church, except one, so I think they are all planning to spend a quiet evening at home.

I imagine Alicia and Justin will go in to be with the young marrieds - they are all working hard to bond as a group and help each other get settled into married life. A great group of kids.

New Year's Day is FOOTBALL !!!! and sometimes college basketball. We have our usual cheese ball (Grandma Carole's recipe) and our brother-in-law Bill's clam dip and chips and Alicia got some kielbasa and little smokies and crackers at Sam's Club, so we should have enough of them to last thru the day.

Brian is busy now working on the big boat project, so he works most days on that - he's not real big on celebrating holidays. He would like to get as much done on the boat as he can while he is off from the school - he doesn't go back to work there until the 7th, I think. Justin is supposed to go back to work on the 2nd... hopefully, his ankle will be healed enough by then for him to work. It might be a severe sprain instead of a break.

So that's the Alaska plans for the New Year celebration. I'm imagining that Justin and Alicia will not be spending the day on their snowmachines as they had planned. :)

Charlotte

2 Comments:

Blogger The Rhiens said...

So, what happened to Justin's leg? I missed that somehow.

Earlene

8:04 PM  
Blogger Brian & Charlotte Carper said...

Snowmachine crash,oops.

8:08 PM  

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