The Coopers continue gearing up for the holidays. Many of you already know of our tradition to buy a cute ornament and a strange ornament each year. This year's winners are below. The first one is our cute one, inspired by our new Texas home, it's a pickup with longhorns on the grille and presents in the back.
...and then the crazy one. This guy follows in the proud tradition of Fishing Mer-Santa and Parachuting Santa-with-candycane-hanging-off-of-bum. This is a Christmas Armadillo.
We're having the Joseph, Amanda and Emily over for Thanksgiving, and we've also invited two basic trainees from the base to spend the day with us as well. It seemed like a good time to throw up some Christmas decorations with so much company on the way. I have lots of Christmas lights, but there's a big difference between hanging lights on an old Orem rambler, and a more modern-style house. The roof is a lot steeper, and the drop is a LOT farther. I don't have a tall ladder, so I had to do the whole thing from on top. I managed to keep from falling, and I think the end-result is pretty nice.
Work on Suzie's gingerbread house continues, mostly just more doors and raw construction material. Unfortunately, Suzie's construction site keeps getting raided by thieves, candy-junkies desperate for a fix now that the Halloween reserves are getting low. There was a flurry of activity at the house across the street about a week ago, we'd thought they had all moved out long before Halloween. They've changed the plates on at least one of their cars to Utah tags. It must be hard on the kids to move around so much.
Tyler has the entire week off of school for Thanksgiving (seems like we only got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday off when I was a kid), and he loves to get phone calls from relatives. He spoke with Robert and Mom for over an hour the other evening. I think he gets sick of hanging out with his Mom and Dad sometimes.
I've decided to take the plunge and get eye-surgery.
I can get surgery for free, but I would have to pay to get glasses or contacts. Truly, I'm a little torn, I like how I look in glasses, but I've never been able to do things like wear sunglasses, swim, or even wake-up in the morning without doing something to be able to see. It might be nice to be able to see ALL of the time. I'm told that long-vision is improved near-permenantly, but that the short-vision will deteriorate naturally over time, so I will need cheaters to read in 10-20 years. Apparently they offer LASIK, LASEK, and PRK at the base. I don't know which I'm getting, and they all sound terrifying if you look them up on the net, maybe I can just do it myself...
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My mom just realized that Jared posted this. Although I would pay good money to see Suzie putting up Christmas lights!
LASIK is a blessing from Heaven, and it was "nearly" painless, aside from the feeling like you have sand in your eyes for 24 hours after your surgery!
Yeah - I DO NOT do lights. Jared is in charge of all electrical and plumbing around the house. I mainly do framing, painting and finish work. JK. We don't know how good the surgery is exactly but it's the same surgery they do on fighter pilots (worth $10 million each) so it's probably pretty good. We'll let you know in 7 years!
Your house looks really nice! Will had a crazy time doing lights in Utah, I don't know if he is up for the challenge this year. Also, that's awesome you get lasiks for free. Will wants it so bad, and I want it for him too (i like the glasses free look) but it's a little too much for the pocket book these days. What kind of system gives you surgery for free but makes you pay for the glasses, CRAZY!
Oh no! I blinked! AAAaaaagggghhhhh
Well, Jared, you could always take the lenses out of your glasses and just wear the frames around. Isn't that the best of both worlds? It was fun talking to Tyler on the phone, by the way.
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