MERRY
CHRISTMAS FROM THE
INCREDIPOWELLS
5: Zombie Apocalypse
With
the end of the world quickly approaching on December 21st, we
thought we would give you one final update on the status of the
IncrediPowells. In a house dominated by
females there is no shortage of yelling, tears or fingernail polish. Let’s see how things unfolded for the
IncrediPowells in 2012.
Emmerson
turned 3 this year and has become the definition of high maintenance. If she
has been well rested, fed, bathed and there are no sisters in sight, she is a
complete sweetheart. If one of these
factors is out of the equation, you better be ready for a fight and be careful,
because she aims for the face. She has
recently become potty trained, which was life changing for her as she is now
eligible for dance! She could not be
more excited to be on the other side of the glass that she has had her face
pressed against for so long. Also, she
may be entering rehab for an acute addiction to the iPad.
Ellie
will turn 5 in January, that is if the world lasts that long. This was a pretty big year for Ellie as she
started preschool this fall. She has
never hesitated once at going to school and has even told me that I don’t need
to walk her in. With Emmy joining dance,
Ellie has decided that she would like to dance also, even though she has
complained that her feet get hot in the shoes and the classes are too
long. I guess all that can be overlooked,
when you are the only one not dancing.
Ellie is also quite the home body; she very rarely wants to spend a
night away from home, even if it is at Grandpa and Grandma’s house. On the rare occasion that she does, she makes
it more than known that it will be, “just for one night only!” At this rate, when you get this letter in 20
years, we will still be talking about Ellie living at home.
Addison
is 8 years old and she fully believes that she was put on the earth to do one
thing….DANCE! Between Iowa C.A.T.S.,
D.D.C., Foster-Powell, and a short stint with Des Moines Ballet, we had Friday
night off from making a trip to a dance studio.
That’s right; we had one whole night that we were not running her here
or there to make a lesson. She also took the trip of a lifetime this year
as my parents took her for two weeks to Hawaii!
While on the Big Island they attend a luau, went hiking, hung out on the
beach, went kayaking and got hula lessons.
We pretty much did the same thing while she was gone. I do know one thing though; Mom and Dad never
asked me to go to Hawaii, the farthest I ever got from home at that age was
Branson, Missouri.
Kim
is in her ninth year of teaching 5th grade at Four Mile Elementary
(SEP). Last year she was a teacher
representative for the PTA and did After School Assistance; this year she is a
full time dance mom. She has found time
within this last year to develop a new hobby and it goes by the name of Flippy
Cup. She came home from the neighbors
one night talking about how much fun she had playing this game. The next day all the neighbors could talk
about was how she was smashing cups and yelling “Suck It!” If any of you were wondering if she had lost
her competitive spirit, I believe the answer is a resounding no. If you ever make it to the Sherrylynn Hood,
you had better bring your “A” game, because there are no friends across the
table.
This
year I started working nights at Titan Tire and watching Ellie and Emmy during
the day, I am not sure which one entertains me more. When I
tell people where I work and I tell them Titan the usually ask where it is at,
I tell them the only reason you would have ever seen Titan Tire is if you were
specifically going there or you were lost.
It has been a huge adjustment, not only with the number of people I am
supervising, but also with the wide variety of ethnicities. I am not sure what I have spent more money on
this year, food out of the vending machines (you name it, we have it in a vending
machine and they take debit cards), or copies of Rosetta Stone.
We
hope this letter finds you and yours doing well this Christmas season. If there is a 2013 we wish you all the best
and hope to see you soon but, if the Mayans happen to be correct…it has been
nice knowing you.
KC, Kim, Addison, Ellerson, Emmerson,
and Katara IncrediPowell
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