Christmas Presents Made

Daniel Bigelow

Dec 18, 2023 — 1 min read

Tonight the kids finished my mom and Marks Christmas presents. I'll post pictures of them after they give them to the grandparents. They turned out really good. Nikki is taking Mark to the store to pick out some things for people on Wednesday, but other than that I think we are done shopping.

Yesterday I installed the new deadbolt on the front door. It works great for the most part. The problem is the door has like two closed settings. One where you close the door, and one where you push it in against the gasket. The door handle lock clicks one last time to keep it against the gasket. But the deadbolt doesn't close at that point. I think I need a knew receiver plate with a bigger hole to allot the deadbolt to always be used.

RSL soccer game

Big Mark got soccer tickets for an RSL game a few months ago and the game was tonight. Gordon was supposed to go but couldn't make it, so Nikki and I could both go. We rode down with my mom and Mark. The game was a blast, and the stadium

GameNight

Ben and Tiff are in town, though not on the best of circumstances. We took the time to do a game night with them and Ian. We did finger food for dinner, and setup the kids to have a sleep over in Marks room. The food was really good and

Recommitting

I've fallen off the wagon lately in everything: too much drinking, too much food, not enough exercise, and no blogging. So today I am recommitting to everything. We have our cruise out of the way, which was a blast, and now I am logging my calories and going to start

Cruise Trip Day 2

Today was the first day of the actual cruise. Kim and her daughter Makenzie ran to Walmart the first thing to buy new cloths. They were luckily back in plenty of time before we needed to check out. We checked out an jumped into the shuttle to the cruise. The

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RSL soccer game

GameNight

Recommitting

Cruise Trip Day 2