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Merry Christmas!


We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!  We enjoyed a quiet day with just our family.  We had our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve, and the kids asked if they could go ahead and go to bed!  It was only 6:20 and we told them it was too early (they would've been up at 2am if they went to sleep that early).   So we forced them to sit and watch a christmas movie and we had family prayer and got pj's on and then they had their second wind and were too excited to go to sleep! lol!  We finally got them all asleep by 9:30.  Rich and I then had our Christmas tradition of wrapping all the presents and worked on that for a few hours, then had to relax and wind down ourselves and got to bed around 1am. lol!

We started hearing voices from the kids around 5:30am, but had told them they couldn't come wake us up until 7am, so we listened to them search through their stockings, and look at the wrapped presents, and had a chuckle when Angela came and announced that it was "just about 7:00 mommy and daddy!  Actually it's 6:54 so you can go ahead and get up!"

We held firm and didn't open the door to go out and join them until after 7:00.  lol!

The unwrapping never takes as long as the wrapping, but we had a great time.  I was given a camera I've had my eye on for the last few years.  I managed to pull it out and take a few shots in the midst of the unwrapping.  Here are some highlights.

 Scooter!
 New Bedding for her bed
 A big Lego Starwars set
 After all these years of Barbie stuff... we finally got a Ken Doll. lol!
 Ashley had a lot of presents that were just on paper- she wanted a room makeover, so she got certificates to go and choose the items for her room.
 More Lego Starwars
 The long awaited for and badly wanted certificate to go and get her ears pierced.
 More Star Wars... the complete trivia book.


 Dolls were the theme for the girls this year.  Each of them got one.  They spent the whole day playing dolls with each other.


We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.  We miss being closer to family and being able to get together and celebrate the day together, but we also enjoy the easyness and quiet that comes from spending the day together with just our little family.  We love all of you and want you to know you are always in our thoughts and prayers. 

Merry Christmas!

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