Weekend Recap

Hey kids,
Daddy here. This weekend, we started off on Friday with a Christmas concert at the school. In the morning, when we were getting ready for school as he walked out and look absolutely adorable.

Jake walked out in a flannel shirt and jeans . I said, "Look at what your sister is wearing and try again." He said, "But girls always dress nicer than boys." I said,  "That's true. Now go put on the boy equivalent of what she's wearing." He came out wearing this:

Much better.  I headed to work for a few minutes and then it was off to school for the concert. Grammie, Papa, and great grandma Dorothy met me there. We heard some awesome music and heard some great singing. Papa and I were laughing and having a great time.

After the concert, I had to come back to work but Jake got to go with the Landacres and play. So I took Iz home and left her with Alex and came back to work. At dinner time we decided to call Westside Take and Bake and get that awesome chicken mushroom pizza and the 6 meat pizza. It's very good there, I think it's my new favorite place.

Saturday was chore day around Casa de Mansfield, to the delight of no one. But like I've said before not every weekend can be filled with merriment and adventures. Sometimes we have chores to do. So when our chores were done, I had to make a quick trip to Ace. Alex came with me and when we were done at Ace, we headed up to Saint Joe's for confession. I'm so very grateful for the sacrament of confession, the ability to unload all our sins and be forgiven is truly a blessing. Our priests are so good about hearing it too. I just love Father George.

When we got home, Mom and I planned our route and we went out and looked at Christmas lights. As we were all starving we decided to get dinner on the way, so we stopped by Baja Burrito and got four burritos and an order of taquitos for Izzy. One of the places we saw had an inflatable nativity scene and I said I've never seen an inflatable nativity scene. Mom pointed out that not only had I seen an inflatable nativity scene before but it was probably at that same house last year. Later, I saw an inflatable outhouse with Santa squatting a grumpy and a roll of TP on the outside of the inflatable lighthouse.

Now THAT I had never seen before. We cruised around for about an hour and a half and look at lights. Izzy passed out and Jake had the worst farts any human has ever had. We made it back home and all went to bed.

Sunday, refreshed from confession and a good night's sleep, we headed to church. Alex and I were the readers at the 9 o'clock mass, so we got our readings straightened out and practiced and did our best. I love to see you read at church Alex. You're becoming such a wonderful, Catholic, young man. As per standard, you got many compliments on how good your reading was. Father George even said you would be the new teacher to instruct the new generation of lectors. After Mass, Mom and Izzy headed out to Grammy and Papa's house to go make Pirogi's and I took Alex to work at the radio station. Then, Jake and I went and picked up his friend Jack and we went back to the house so they could play Destiny together. At lunch time Jake, Jack and I went to Jack In The Box and when we were done it was time to go get Alex from work. We headed home to rendezvous with the girls and wind or weekend down. You guys are off work and school all week comma so it should be fun for you. I've got one more week of work and then the Christmas festivities can start. I love you guys,

 Daddy