Christmas 2008

Wow! Christmas was great at our house.  We are truly blessed.  Christmas lasted nearly a full week for us.  

Scott, Cassie, and Riley were headed to California for the holidays.  So we had a mini-Christmas with them on Sunday evening.  Mostly we exchanged gifts and watched Riley play with the paper from her gifts.  It was cool!

Christmas eve was just Me, Vern, Chelsea, Katie and Taylor.  But it was nice.  We opened our traditional Christmas Eve gift (yeah, the jammy thing).  Only this year we didn't do jammies, we did sweats for everyone.  After opening the traditional gift, we reread the Christmas story and celebrated the real reason for this season.  

The next morning we got up (9:00 am and we still had to wake everyone up!).  Alex and Jon joined us and we opened our gifts.  It was such fun.  Santa must have thought we were all pretty good this year.  Especially Taylor (she got an iPod Shuffle and a sled from Santa.)  

After opening the gifts, we had breakfast.  Vern and Alex worked together to feed the crowd.  It was awesome.

I am so grateful for my family.  I have been truly blessed!  I thank my Heavenly Father for my many blessings.  (Especially for my family and home).  

After breakfast, we went to the care center to say Merry Christmas to Grandma and Grandpa Lloyd and Uncle Michael.  We watched as they opened their gifts.  Michael was a lot of fun, teasing us all.  We would say Merry Christmas and he would reply "Bah Hum Bug!".  Of course we know he was teasing because of the gigantic smile on his face.  It's such a blessing to watch as Michael continues to improve. 

It truly was a wonderful Christmas!!!  I pray that each of you had the same experience and pray for your happiness.