Christmas

The Christmas celebration is a three day celebration for us. It starts with Christmas Eve when in the afternoon we get to hear the carols over the phone...only this year because of ichat we actually got to see our friends in Greece, we sang with them danced and showed off my little pregnant belly. Then we went to have dinner my side of the family...it is great to have this time to see them since it's one of the few times in the year that we get to see them. After that we went to the 9:45p.m. service at the church. We stayed late because Stephen had to clean up before we went home. Unlike other years once we got home we started wrapping presents (other years that is a job done many days before because I treasure seeing all the gifts under the tree). Around 12:30a.m. we read the Bible story, thanked the Lord and exchanged our gifts. The we kept wrapping so by the time we went to be it was 3;30a.m. Christmas day we got up early to join the family at Bobby and Shannon's for breakfast and exchanging gifts. After the morning activity we relaxed, talked and played with the kids until it was time to clear out so they could get ready for the rest of their day and we went to aunt Sharon's. There we relaxed more even took a nice nap after lunch :-) Around 7 p.m. we went to the parent's house exchanged immediate family gifts and then played Apples to Apples and ImagineIff with t he fam and the Woods who were in town. The next day we went to the other side of the fam. where we celebrated also Papa Stu's birthday. It was a fun Christmas with family!!! Next year we'll also have the baby...how exciting :-)
share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AbOWThk2Zt2Kk