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Hi Mom and Dad,
We've spoken a few times is week so I don't have much to report.
Theresa and I are watching "Moneyball" on DVD tonight (in between loads of laundry). The girls are downstairs watching "Mean Girls".
The winter ball and sleepover went fine for Chloe. She followed through with everything she agreed too. I called the mom of the sleepover early in the afternoon to make sure it was all on the up and up. And then met the both the parents when I dropped Chloe off.
Megan had a sleepover too last night across the street at Whitney's house.
Theresa and I sang in the praise choir this morning. After church she went grocery shopping and I practiced music for the men's retreat. Megan had her second guitar lesson tonight at 6pm as well.
Good win by Missouri yesterday. Tough day for Kansas and Arizona. We did watch the end of that UofA game. Too bad!
Well that's about it.
Luv u,
Jeff

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Hi Mom & Dad,

We caught up a little last night so I don't have much new.

The girls are down at Flatiron Crossing looking for a dress for Chloe for the winter ball in Feb.  I'm kinda watching the football game in the background.

We didn't end up watching a movie last night.  We watched a reality tv show called 'DC Cupcakes' - they made a one ton cupcake to break the world record.  Then we all played one game of spite and malice.  I won  Then the girls played WII and Theresa and I went upstairs and watch an episode of Mad Men.

I've signed up for the men's retreat at Calvary Feb. 10-12.  It's the first time I've gone in many years (maybe 4 or 5 years).  I'm also helping out with the music.  Should be a good time.

I started doing my taxes early this morning.  I don't quite have all the paperwork yet though so I can't finish it.

We've had some amazing winds this past week.  Fences and trees blown down all over the place.  We lost a tile out of our patio table on the back deck that shattered into pieces.  But, nothing worse than that.  Other than that, just several nights of no sleep, and grumpiness the next day :-(

Well, nothing much else interesting to report on.  So I'll sign off.  Until next week!

luv u,

Jeff

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Hi Mom (and Dad)
Once again I've left this 'til late and I'm running out of steam on a
Sunday night. So this will be short and sweet.
I watched the Broncos get pummeled yesterday. Oh well, it was a good
season. Earlier in the day I watched the Tigers beat Texas. That was
fun. We watched the movies Red w/Bruce Willis on Friday and Zookeeper
w/Kevin James tonight - both were pretty good. Theresa is watching
Downton Abbey Season 2 on PBS right now. She really enjoys it - don't
know if you've seen it.
I played at church this morning and Theresa worked. So, we were a
little disjointed. Chloe dropped Megan off for first service and then
drove herself back for second service. Megan walked home. Chloe has
been finding any excuse to drive everywhere. Basketball games,
lunches, friends houses etc.
We had fun at Bring It On The Musical. It wasn't very 'deep' but it
was up beat and positive and the girls really enjoyed it. We didn't
home and in bed until midnight on Wednesday - too late for me.
Other than that it was a normal busy week. BSF in Monday, I actually
hung out with a friend on Tuesday night instead of Theresa going to
girls night out, Wednesday was the musical, and music practice on
Thursday. Megan is going strong in Fiddler on the Roof - she told me
she has a solo as a Russian girl in one of the songs.
I got the part for the garage and it did the trick. Yeah! $30 and
we're back in business.
We are scheduled to return electric blue on Tuesday morning. It sure
has been nice having and I will be sad to see it go. With Chloe,
driving it's been nice to have 3 cars. I imagine at some point we'll
have to figure out something for her. Although I added her to our
insurance of an extra $800/year (compared to $1,200/year for BOTH
Theresa and I).
Well that's about it for now.
Luv u,
Jeff

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Hi Mom and Dad,
Whew - it's been a hard, busy week after a lovely vacation. Tough to get back into the swing of things. Just the normal routine though.
Of course our big news is Chloe passing her driving test. She drove to pick up Megan from school and also to the BHS b-ball game on Friday night, out to a party in Erie on Saturday night, and then to Target today. Anything to just drive :-). Our garage door opener broke yesterday so that has been a real pain. I ordered a new circuit board off of EBay today for $30 that hopefully fixes it. It won't arrive until late next week. Until then we have to manually heft the door up and down.
I went for an eye exam on Thursday morning. I'm officially old and had to go buy some 'readers' from Walgrens. My LASIK is still holding up though - 20/20 far away.

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Hi Mom,
One week to go. I was checking out the weather.... Good news, bad news
- I think the weather will be fine for traveling. But it's not looking
great for skiing. They don't make snow at Powder Mountain and it only
has. 15" base. Snow Basin has about a 37" base. But at least we'll
all be together :-)
We went to the Christmas concert at church tonight Theresa was a part
of the festivities. I'll send you a link to the video.
Now we are sitting here watching "The Help". I checked out all the
other movies you asked about and they are all too new to be on Netflix
or even Redbox.
I watched the Broncos today. Their luck finally ran out :-(. It wasn't
really Tebow's fault. They had too many turnovers and penalties.
Missouri was on too but they were in a blowout over William & Mary so
I didn't watch it.
Yesterday I spent all day in bed sick. A bad head cold snuck up on me
starting Friday afternoon. I think I'm kicking it just in time to head
back to work. But at least I have it out of the way before our trip.
I hope I haven't given it to any one else.
The girls are glad to be out of school. I'm finished with BSF for the
year as well. Theresa and I have to finish up our work week then
Christmas and traveling. Yeah, can't wait.
Well I'm going to sign off for now to pay attention to the help.
Luv u,
Jeff

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Hi Mom,

We've had a busy week. Monday BSF. Tuesday girls night out.  Wednesday Megan's choir concert. Thursday music practice. Friday CU vs. WY basketball. Saturday Christmas party. Sunday church day.   Whew. Sounds like a Carolie week.

Megan did great at the concert and at her audition for Fidler on the Roof. She didn't get 'called back' which the teacher said was a good thing. She'll find out tomorrow if she got a part. Fingers crossed.

Chloe has been studying hard for finals. They start on Tuesday with physics & math, Wednesday is history & lit., Thursday is photography. Then she is done. Off on Friday.

I have a new guy starting at work tomorrow. It'll be good to be fully staffed again. I'm a little nervous about training him since I'm still pretty new myself. But the rest of the team will help get him up to speed too.

The basketball game of Friday night was fun. Riley Grabau, one of the stars of the Boulder High basketball team last year ended up, going to Wyoming. So it was his homecoming. Chloe said we should go at the last minute. So just the girls and I went over and bought GA tickets (Megan got a free ticket from some passerby).  It was a pretty good crowd but we still ended up sitting mid-court pretty close down. Colorado really blew it and ended up losing pretty big. Riley didn't play at all. But it was still a good time.

Last night was a Christmas party at one of Theresa's friends house. An interesting mixture of church people and non-church people. It was a nice evening. Drinks, hors d'oeuvres,  and deserts.

Once again, I've watched a bunch of sports this week too. Missouri vs. Villanova  & Navy basketball... 9-0 and ranked #10 in the country. Army Navy game. Too many mistakes for Army. And then of course today - Tebow time. I can't believe how the exciting watching the Denver Broncos is with Tim Tebow leading them to victory at the last second. Today's game was incredible. You'll have to check out the highlights.

We just watched "Their eyes were watching God" with Hallie Berry  - an Oprah Winfrey made for TV movie. It's based on a book that Chloe has been reading for lit class. She needed a little refresher :-)

Well that's all I know for now.

Luv u,

Jeff

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Hi Mom,

We've had a good week.  Ken and Mona went on their merry way on Monday after a great stay.  They made it to Salina and then finished up on Tuesday morning - home safe and sound.

Monday night was BSF - taking a detour from studying Acts into Hebrews.  That's some heavy sledding.

Theresa got the results from her Dr's appointment last Friday - all clear.  Whew - thankful for good health.

Megan has been preparing her audition for the middle school spring musical (Fiddler on the Roof).  She is going to sing "On My Own" from Les Miserables.  She also has a choir concert coming up on Wednesday.

We got quite a bit of snow on Thursday and then a lot more on Saturday.  Good for skiing - keep it coming.  Not so fun shoveling though :-(

Chloe went out to dinner and bowling with friends on Friday night.

Theresa is now working 1 day/month at church doing the administrative stuff that needs to get done before, during and after the services.  She went in this morning early for training.

I just finished watching the Broncos.  That Tim Tebow is amazing.  He finds a way to win every time.  I guess God is on his side and is a Broncos fan.  Explains why sunsets are orange and blue.  I've also been keeping up with Tigers basketball.  7-0 now.... wow didn't expect that after we lost our big man Lawrence Bowers and the new coach, Frank Haith, under fire.

I spoke with an old college/fraternity brother, Bob Kinton, yesterday.  He lives in Chicago now with his wife and kids (4 boys - ranging from 1st grade to sophomore in college @ MU).  He found a job lead at Vail Resorts and I know the recruiter there so I was able to put them in touch with each other.  We have kept in touch over the years but it was fun to have good long catch up on the phone.

Work is going well.  Still feel like the new guy with so much to learn.  But, I'm getting there and feel like I'm fitting in and starting to make a difference.

We are headed out to the mall here in a little bit to do some Christmas shopping.  Hope it isn't too crazy out there.  We've been getting into the spirit.  I told you I put up the outside lights on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  Theresa has all the thanksgiving decorations down now and the christmas tree is up.  She's got all the decoration boxes up from downstairs and is getting to those a little at a time.

Can't wait to be together after Christmas - only a few weeks away now.  We still need to get together with Julie to talk through food.  We'll figure it out!

Okay - that's it for now.

Luv u,

Jeff

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Jeff Sherard

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