Well its christmas eve here! Chad’s at work today :( And he has to work tomorrow :(
So today I’m doing some holiday baking, watching christmas movies with the kids, and then preparing some yummy food for dinner. We are having Tamara, Alan, and their kids Jessica and Jenna over for dinner. Tamara is bringing turkey, a salad, and apple pie. I’m making mashed potatoes, rolls, and zuchinni corn bacon medley. Tamara already is one of my bestest friends. Alan and Chad like hanging out too. They are LDS and we met them in our last apt on the fly even though we went to different wards/stakes they noticed our UT plate on the jeep and flagged us down.

My birthday was this last week. THE BIG 27! Tamara came over and took me to a gelato shop thats down the road from us. I had pistachio and cookie dough gelato. Then Tamara came back over at 7 so Chad and I could catch a movie. We went to the cheap movie theater $8.00 a ticket to see “I am Legend” It was Really good.

So at church yesterday they announced that a new family moved into Fieldstone (thats where we live) and had a baby the day after they moved in. I asked the RS prez if she knew which street and it was our street and I almost passed out because I saw a family move in right next door to us this past week. So get this I went and introduced myself after church and not only are they LDS but their brother and sister in law moved up the street on the same day too. So out of 7 houses on one street 3 of us our LDS. I’m way pumped. And they are also really cool people who have kids the same age as us.

2 weeks ago a lady from my last ward called to see if I was available to babysit. When I found out how much she paid I was like “YES” Babysitting here is $5 an hour per kid and thats why the last date Chad and I went on was in June before we moved. So anyway I went to her house where she was having a dinner party and I was just to be there to help out with any needs that the children had.

Her house was beautiful. It was like walking in a story book house made of candy and whipped cream. I coveted everything. Her children were Claire, Max, Daphne and Luke. It was almost like she had a casting call for beautiful blonde chubby cheeked children dressed in Ralph Lauren holiday wear.

So anyway the funny part… The Jaffy Story

So in walked an African American couple (not that I would seperate them out as African American but for the story its important for you to know) and their child who was 3. They introduced themselves to some guests and then said this is our daughter Jaffy. I thought that was a different name but I thought maybe a cultural name like “Shenquah” or something. So I was across the room and went to them and said that I was helping with the children and introduced myself. Then I said to Jaffy to come with me and I’d get her a plate of food. So all night I said her name… kinda loud and proud. Like I was being ultra cool for using such a cultural name or something. “Jaffy you want some juice?” “Jaffy come down stairs we are starting the movie!” I even thought to myself that she might need some special ed if she wasn’t involved in a program already because whenever I said her name she just looked around or ran off. Then as they were leaving the mom said really loud “Gaby come get your shoes on!” I was so embarresed.