{"id":3666,"date":"2009-12-26T20:42:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2009-12-27T00:22:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T06:22:03","slug":"christmas-eve-at-the-alonso-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve at the Alonso Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nZane and Apple<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nBecause we are uber nerds, we had to bring our laptops. How else were we going to farm? LOL.<\/p>\n

Kidding aside, I was on call on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so Brian and I actually brought three laptops with us: our personal laptops, which you see in the photo above, and then my work laptop, which was setup in one of the guest bedrooms. I had to get the several applications going: our deskview\/callboard, Nortel CCMS (to see how long the rep has been idle, on a call, or any other activity), TotalView (to see how many calls abandoned during each interval), and Lotus Notes and Sametime (so I can communicate with the rep who’s working without having to call the office and tie up their line).<\/p>\n

I was worried that I’d have to do callout while I was at mom and dad’s because of the blizzard-like weather conditions. I didn’t have to do until I got home, though. Brian and I got in at midnight and I got a call around 1 AM, right as we had gone to bed. That’s my luck (or lack thereof) for you.<\/p>\n

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\nJen-Tevs (our new nickname for Jennifer Teves Allison because there are just way too many Jennifers in our family) made this beautiful, fruitilicious salad.<\/p>\n

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\nMom’s humba<\/em> turned out really good. It was the best humba<\/em> she’s made yet. We had a ton of food. I won’t post all the food pictures here. <\/p>\n

Mom was really proud of the fact that (besides the dishes that Jen-Tevs and Apple brought) she made all of the ulam<\/em> herself. She didn’t hire someone else to cook\/cater our dinner this time. Way to go, mom!<\/p>\n

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\nOur group photo (Alonsos, Holders, Allisons, Brubakers, plus Jeremy Ryan) was taken before the Cannadys arrived. We should have taken a group photo after they got to the house, but we got distracted by the kiddos and opening presents. We forgot all about it. LOL.<\/p>\n

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\nAndrew, Apple and Zane Holder<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nJen-Tevs and Armando Allison<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMom with Brian and Jeremy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mom was Jeremy’s realtor when he bought his house. He is a good friend of Andrew and Apple. This is actually the first time that Brian and I met Jeremy. Although, we almost met him at the Midwest Rockfest this summer because mom told us that he was there too.<\/p>\n

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\nApple really got into Catchphrase. I’m glad because it’s one of my favorite games. I never have anyone to play with, though, because Brian doesn’t like it. Notice that he’s not playing with us.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Cannadys<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nEli and Matthew<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMom and Jen-Tevs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLogan and Brian<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMe and Jennifer Cannady<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLogan with the Nerf Wii game that Jenni got him.<\/p>\n

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\nEli, playing with his new toy.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Holders and Jeremy Ryan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nJennifer, Jen-Tevs, Mom, Apple and Zane<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nJen-Tevs and Armando, reading an article about our favorite sports hero Manny Pacquiao. Go Pacman!<\/p>\n

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\nBaby Zane with some toys we got for him.<\/p>\n

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\nLogan with the Nerf machine gun that we got him.<\/p>\n

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\nEli with the Bob the Builder stuff that we got him.<\/p>\n

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\nJenni just had to put the Bob the Builder hardhat on. She couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n

She is so goofy. Probably the funniest part of the evening was when Jenni proclaimed herself as being half-Mormon. I was like, “How are you half-Mormon? That’s not even possible.”<\/p>\n

Jenni explained that she’s half-Mormon because she only goes to church every other Sunday. Everyone busted up laughing. Sometimes Jenni is so funny that she makes my head hurt.<\/p>\n

We didn’t get to do karaoke (Brian got lucky), but I still had a lot of fun. I hope everyone else did, too. <\/p>\n

NOTE: For more of our pictures from Christmas Eve, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zane and Apple Because we are uber nerds, we had to bring our laptops. How else were we going to farm? LOL. Kidding aside, I was on call on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so Brian and I actually brought three laptops with us: our personal laptops, which you see in the photo above, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[288,908,846,333,910,235,906,907,909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}