Monthly Archives: December 2022

December activities

12/6/22 Carter’s third (last) Cross Country race: 1.5 miles, 10:57.91, 69th out of 176.

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12/9/22 Raine’s school soccer team

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12/10/22 Carter’s first basketball game. They got KILLED by a team that was significantly bigger than them.

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12/12/22 Raine attempting to decorate a gingerbread house (it didn’t end well).

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12/16/22 Raine and Ruby’s last day of school before Christmas break.

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12/17/22 Carter’s second basketball game. They won pretty handily. Carter was the 2nd highest scorer on his team with 5 points.

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Near the end of the game, Carter got flung to the ground and “broke” his thumb. He stayed in the game and still managed to pull down a key rebound, but we went to the urgent care afterward and he is going to be in a brace for a little while.

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The nurse practitioner at the urgent care pointed out the “broken” bone to us on the x-ray while we were there and made a referral to an orthopedist. However, she called us later that afternoon and told us that the radiologist report said that there was nothing abnormal in the x-ray. The nurse practitioner told us that she wasn’t comfortable with that and told us that we should still go to the orthopedist. Fortunately, Brother Garff in the ward is an orthopedist, so he checked it out for us at church the next day. He said that there was definitely something there, but that it wasn’t bad enough to require a cast and should feel better in a week if he just continued to wear the brace. We were fine with that, so that’s what Carter is doing.

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12/21/22 Young Women activity

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Parents’ weekend in NYC

Several couples from our ward took a quick trip to NYC on December 2-3 — Andy and Beka Phillipp, John and Gisel Merrifield, Shaun and Faith Garff, and Paul and Glory Watts. We saw two musicals: “& Juliet” and “Hadestown”; we ate at Joe’s Pizza and had an amazing dinner at Quality Meats; we got robbed by bicycle rickshaws; we had amazing hot cocoa and desert at Max Brenner; and we walked around Time Square, Rockefeller Square, and 5th Avenue looking at the Christmas sights.

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