Christmas

Well it is over. I can't believe it. This year went by so fast. I wasn't fully ready for Christmas and now it is almost New Years. We had a great Christmas though. On Christmas Eve we visited our families and had some good food. Then we came home and opened new pajamas, we sang carols and had hot cocoa then off to bed leaving Santa cookies and milk, and carrots for the reindeer. The girls woke up promptly at 4 am! They were told to "go back to bed" for a couple of hours, I don't think Ashley slept at all. We then got up at 630 and opened presents. The girls got pretty much everything they asked for. They didn't ask for much this year, we were a little preoccupied. Kaitlyn got her cars and Ashley got her Barbie. Santa also left two new sleds that we tried out later. They had so much fun opening everything and Kami even got in on some tearing action. The girls got a V motion for their big gift. I know, I swore we would never own a video game system. This is like a kids version of the wii and requires physical movement to participate. It really was a good Christmas, and was quite different for us this year. We were busy with some service we were doing and that took the focus off of the materialistic part of Christmas. So, this year we focused more on Christ and what he did for us and how we can be more like him. I think we all enjoyed the change. We had such a fun afternoon sledding out front, Kyle made a huge hill with the tractor and we had a ball sliding down on the new sleds. We had such a wonderful relaxing day. I hope they can all be like this. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!