Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
We probably should have been spanked.....
Guess who peeked at their Christmas present?Guess who faked a surprise face on Christmas day?
Guess what was seen in the sky at night?
Guess what deer were doing in the front yard?
All of these questions and more will be answered as you read the following true stories from the Stimpsons.
Kody - I was always the first one up out of bed. I remember going to sleep at 9 o'clock or earlier so I get up right after Santa came. At 2 I would wake up and run out to see what we got. One year we got a Nintendo. I was so excited I ran downstairs and woke Jared up telling him, "we got it", "we got a Nintendo"! I then ran upstairs and woke up Sarah to tell her that she got a doll. All of this annoyed everyone I imagine but I was so excited I just couldn't wait. ;)
Lisa - I remember being skeptical that maybe Santa might be my dad but then on the way home Christmas eve, my dad pointed out the window and we saw a red light. The light was way up in the sky and in that moment I KNEW it was Rudolph's nose. So from that night I have always known Santa is real.
Kody - Every Christmas I tried hard to peek at the presents under the tree without getting caught. One day I took a strangely shaped gift intot the bathroom so I could quietly peek without being caught. I was thrilled. It was a black plastic car that holds hotwheels cars. I had over a hundred. I still have this in fact. I was so excited but quickly ran into a problem. There was no tape anywhere to retape up my gift. I ended up finding some garland that was taped up on the walls downstairs which I used to tape the paper back on (although there was garland on every piece of tape). I don't think i ever got caught even with the garland sagging, falling off of the wall due to the tape I had taken. :)
Lisa - Santa always put our gifts in separate piles with our stocking on top telling us whose pile it was. I always liked to get up at 2am to look at the piles and see whose was the biggest. One year I got up and I saw some presents that weren't wrapped. They were bikes! Afterwards as I went back to my bed I felt bad that I had reuined the surprise for myself. When we all got up I pretended to not know a thing. My parents had us come into the room all at the same time so we would be surprised together. When I came out with my "fake face" on they knew I had peeked. I said, "oh wow, bikes"! and my parents made me fess up that I knew already. They know my fake face too well.
Kody - Lisa came downstairs yesterday finding Trace and i laying on our backs under the Christmas tree. I loved to lay under the tree when I was little (and I guess still today ;) to look at the lights and the pine needles and imagine that I lived in the tree. I even used some of the figurine ornaments as little people who would walk along the branches. This could be part of the reason why to this day I love pine tree forests. Trace seems to like doing this too. :)
Lisa - They say you grow up to be an adult on your mission. I am not sure if that is true. We were sitting in our mission conference and each area had to perform a Christmas carol. One group got up and someone was singing WAY off key. My companion and I looked at each other and back up at the group trying to figure out who was the culprit. We found who it was. It was an Elder and he was singing at least two octaves HIGHER than everyone else. I started to smirk and put my hand over my mouth so the laugh wouldnt erupt. I made the mistake of looking at Hermana Grubbs (my companion) and we both let out a loud squeal. I could tell I wasn't going to be able to stop so I got on the floor next to the pew and let it all out. My companion did the same. I was pinching myself so hard and hoping my mission president wouldn't see me. Each time I heard him hit a high note I had to duck down again. I wondered if I was being the only immature one but I looked around and saw a number of people with my same dillema. I snuck a glance at the mission president surprised to find his hand over his own mouth, red faced, trying not to laugh himself.
Kody - Growing up I always tried to think of something to get my mom and dad for Christmas. I remember my mom telling me when I was young to never buy your wife a vacuum, a blender, or new scour pads for Christmas. I am sure Lisa is grateful for that lesson. My mom almost always got a box of "Sugar babies" and my dad always got a can of peanuts and a bag of red licorice. I wonder how many of my brothers and sisters who read this are now laughing to themselves because they bought those very things for them this year too!
Lisa - My parents bought those fake lit deer and put them in our front yard. We came outside one morning to find that someone had placed them in a way that normally is only shown on the Discovery channel. We looked across the street to see that our Bishop's deer too had been placed in this same fashion. We got in the car and drove around the neighborhood and were surprised to see that someone had done this to EVERY DEER in the neighborhood. We laughed our heads off!
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