Mackey Family

Parker participated in his elementary annual Christmas program this past weekend. Each grade performed 2 songs. It was cute, but very loud (the audience was louder than the performance.) Parker loves to sing and has been practicing for weeks around the house. Parker is the 4th one from the left on the top row. This was the finale where they had the whole school sing. I almost got him to look at me. Later that night we went over to see the lights near the Layton city offices. They decorate 100's of figures and have 1000's of lights. The kids loved it. Parker's favorite was the spider and spider web. Snake Moose Hannah's favorite was the Mermaid (Ariel is what she called it.) Parker and Hannah. (I swear one of these days I WILL get a picture of both of them looking at the camera & smiling)

So as I stated in my last post we have had some major plumbing issues. I guess one of the joys of having an older home is that things have to be fixed and brought up to date. Over the last months we have had our sewer back up into our laundry room a couple of times. Luckily when it happened the first few times we were there and could keep it from getting onto the carpet in our basement. If we put the liquid plumber foaming snake in, it would fix it and we were good for about a week or so. So last Sunday it did it again but this time it backed up enough to get the perimeter of our carpet wet. So Travis went to get the liquid plumber but this time it didn't work. So Monday we called a rotor rooter company and they came out to do their thing. The man then sent in a camera to have a look at our pipes and said that we have orange burg pipes. Orange burg pipe is actually a kind of tar paper that's rolled up about 10 layers thick to create a tube. It was used as the sewer pipe that ru

8 Shows I Watch: 1. The Amazing Race 2. Prison Break 3. Hells Kitchen 4. Law & Order (any of them, SVU, CI) 5. Survivor 6. The Office 7. Without a Trace 8. The Biggest Loser 8 Restaurants That I Like To Eat At: 1. Olive Garden 2. Wendy's 3. Applebee's 4. Subway 5. Chili's 6. Garcia's 7. Red Robin 8. Rumbi 8 Things I Did Today: 1. Took Parker to school 2. Fed Hannah Breakfast 3. Posted this blog. 4. Ate breakfast 5. took medicine (I have an awful cold) 6. Called a plumber (We are having some major plumbing issues) 7. Pick up Kindergarten carpool (In 1 Hr) 8. Fed the Dog 8 Things I Am Looking Forward To: 1. Getting rid of this cold 2. Having our plumbing problems fixed 3. Christmas 4. Feeling better 5. lunch with some girl friends tomorrow 6. 10 yr Anniversary in May 7. Watching my kids grow & Learn 8. Summer vacation next year 8 Things On My Wish List: 1. Money 2. Good health 3. Being debt free 4. Getting a new car 5. Continued employment for Travis 6. Fun summer